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According to Philip Larkin, “Books Are a Load of ****”
by Alex Andy Phuong

Many English teachers would criticize students for using resources like Cliffsnotes and Sparknotes instead of reading original texts.  Nevertheless, given the amount of time a person has to live, who really has time to read hundreds of pages of writing when people usually live for about a century or less?  Time is precious, and there are only 525,600 minutes per year.  Even if people could read at one page per minute…is it really worth it?