The quote failed to represent other types of literature, such as technical and scientific literature, which had, in contrast, become much more accessible and widely read with the advent of the Internet.
I would keep the Advent calendar and read the Bible stories about Jesus' birth, but perhaps I could banish Jingle Bell Rock and wreaths and bows and stockings and try to bring Christmas back to its spiritual essence.
"Gee... it must be awful to have to have that Dior fella switch rules on you in the middle of the game," Patty-Jo quips in one 1954 strip, as Ginger reads about the advent of a new Christian Dior line.
Sing Advent songs, during Advent, such as "O Come Divine Messiah," "O Come O Come Emmanuel," etc. Read the Christmas story in the bible.
I started reading the Guardian regularly when I was at university with the advent of smartphones, Twitter and the Guardian app, but I first read it when I was 18.
The paragraph should have read: "Since January and the advent of the Bush administration, only one species, the milky vetch plant, has been listed, and that was under a court order.
Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologies-changes that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all.
We had got used to reading on screens since the advent of the internet, but it wasn't until the widespread availability of e-readers in 1998 that we had a serious alternative, and threat, to the printed book.
Critics, including some inside Thomas' own newsroom, were skeptical that anyone wanted or needed to read several thousand words on the advent of television in Samoa or a teenage murderer from Mesa, Ariz.
Before considering why this is so, consider some of the new kinds of reading experiences possible only with the advent of digital publishing.
