Hi everyone and Gina especially,
I for one cannot imagine a life without reading books for pleasure.  At any
one time, I geneally have 3 or 4 books going at a time, plus at least one
book I'm listening to.  I HATE reading on the screen, although I have to do
a lot of it.  That's when I have trouble concentrating in a linear manner
for any length of time, unless I'm reading what I am writing at the time.

I went to the "Tree Octopus" site, and I have to say that most of the
students I've had in the last few years would have fallen for it totally.
It just doesn't seem to matter how many times we tell them to apply reason
to the internet -- especially if it looks as professional as that one did,
they're going to buy it.  I did an exercise once with a "medical" site that
promised a journal of a man's pregnancy along with other absurd things, and
although  we'd had a lengthy discussion of how to judge a website's
truthfulness (and this spoof site had red flags galore), none of the
students who got that as their assignment spotted  it as a fake.  We have
our work cut out for us, friends!

Wendy Quinones
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