What's cool about this is that it seems to be "in" to read books these days. I'm glad a lot of kids seem to be putting down their video game joysticks long enough to pick up a book. (Gawd, I'm starting to sound like somebody's parent....) I don't care if it's Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien or whatever, the fact that kids are reading is A Good Thing. My wife tells me all the time that I don't read anymore, which is untrue-- I read all the time. But she doesn't consider reading "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0" to be "real reading." :) ~Jeff On February 06, 2002 11:13 PM der.hans wrote: > One of the coolest things I've seen was in a book store. There were two kids > ( closer to 5 than 10 ) and the boy cried out "Cool. They've got Tolkien." > The girl readily agreed that was indeed a good thing and dropped the HP item > she had in her hands to pick up her own copy of Tolkien :). The dropping HP > wasn't the cool part, but I thought it interesting.