Hi, All--
I received my usual boxes of books for preview this week, and I
continue to wonder about the value of the large majority of titles.
Just as a "for instance" I'm looking at one called Keeping Peace in the
World. 48 pages long and it costs $21.95 from this particular vendor.
On the plus side, a book like this is filled with colorful pictures and
informative charts, graphs and sidebars of additional info. So there is
a better chance of the book appealing to the "multimedia generation."
But the reading level and amount of text seem very low to me.
I have received a few books that are at a higher level, such as the
Scientific American Critical Anthologies series, but 90% of the books
in the preview boxes could probably be easily read by a 4th grader.
Has this move to graphics versus text bothered anyone else or do you
think it's just the way of the future?
Deb Waugh
Librarian
Graham High School
210 Valleydale Street
Bluefield, Virginia
debwaugh.lm_net@frontiernet.net
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