Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrrick From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Rereading Message-ID: <348@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 03:44:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.348 Posted: Wed Jul 10 03:44:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:23:01 EDT References: <120@aplvax.UUCP> <1502@utah-gr.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.books:2018 net.sf-lovers:8568 > > One day you'll happen to pull a book off the shelf and scan through it > for something and maybe you won't really be paying attention and the > pages are just flipping past but a word or a sentence will flash in > your eye and you'll stop and stare and exclaim, 'What!? I don't > remember anything like that!' And then you'll be hooked on rereading... > Doesn't "scan" mean to read very closely or intently? Should "skim" have been used here? Sorry, old pet peeve... -- --rick heli (... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)