[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:13 -0400
Hi all,
Well, Cindy, if nonfiction books which are outdated aren't to be kept,
then how is somebody supposed to learn about what was happening in
South Africa in 1985? Books written about events in the past, I feel
are perhaps more accurate in their portrayal of those events when they
are written closer in time to those events. Obviously, a book written
about the social situation in South Africa in 1985 would not be
factually correct in many things. However, it would be a valuable
source of information.
Might as well get rid of all the books written about the cold war,
then. The cold war is over, the Berlin wall is down. Russia is now a
loose confederation of countries. That doesn't make any books written
between 1950 and 1990 invalid, they're just inaccurate for today.
I vote for keeping them. But then, I vote for keeping all books.
<smiling> Shoot, I'd give anything for copies of histories from The
Library Of Alexandria. Sure, they'd be inaccurate, and they'd leave
out a whole half of the world, but wow, what a treasure!
Unfortunately, The Library Of Alexandria was burned down some twenty
centuries ago.
Ann P.
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