Make magazines sister publication,"Craft" announced recently that it is ceasing publication of the craft magazine with issue number ten due to rising costs and lack of interest.

We can all understand the rising costs part , but "lack of interest:"? Were they not out here publicizing their magazine or is it because of the abundance of craft articles, instructions, and information that is available on the internet free of charge , including ones they offer themselves.

The latter is probably the truth, there's very little reason for someone to actually purchase a craft magazine unless they specifically need a paper pattern that is included in the magazine. And then there are those of us who just have to have that physical paper in our hands.

Is this another example of the internet taking the place of having a real hands on book or magazine?

The recent banning of the resale of books printed before 1985 is a tremendous insult to those of us who prefer a good old fashioned book. Amazons Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 provide hundreds of books,but are we going to have to buy Kindles just so our children can see the books we read growing up?

Maybe this is simply an effort to control the secondary market of selling books for the benefit of current publishers.

If the ink in these books was enough to actually cause lead poisoning then that would explain perfectly the problems our children are experiencing.

But was there enough lead in the pre 1985 books to cause lead poisoning? That's a question we each have to determine for ourselves. It's the opinion of the general public that the main cause of juvenile deliquency is attributable to extreme violence on television and in the video games, not books.

A child who sits for several hours constantly killing the enemy and blowing up buildings and property is not going to function properly in society. They will attempt to re-create that environment in real life. For them, just kill a few, destroy a few things, turn the game off and you can start over anytime.'

Does lead poisoning cause them to be unable to separate fact from fiction?

Someone may say "Oh, his daddy did the same thing". That's not an excuse. Well ,where did his daddy learn it? The answer I'm sure is television. While it's true, books have been around a lot longer than television or video games, they most certainly have not caused the problems our teenagers are experiencing today.

Banning books is not going to solve any part of the problem, but parental control will make a huge difference.

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