From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Books, anyone? - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1476 Posted: Wed Feb 16 00:33:00 1983 Received: Sat Feb 19 05:03:42 1983 #R:ihuxp:-36000:uiucdcs:10600062:000:290 uiucdcs!mcewan Feb 15 23:43:00 1983 I really don't think this was intended as an insult. My dictionary gives one of the definitions of literate as "familiar with literature; literary". I believe that this was the meaning intended. "The literate are a minority in all media"???? By *definition*, anyone who reads is literate!