FabSwingers.com forum: Dorling Kindersley (DK)

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I used to spend hours reading the eyewitness books and often used them and Microsoft Encarta to complete homework.

My parents invested a lot of money in books and various encylopedia's to assist with homework. Nower days i guess its a quick type into google and there's your answer.

I just wondered if anyone else had fond memories of the DK books?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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We would buy our children plenty of DK books, I think it really helped them through their Primary school and early Secondary school years.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We would buy our children plenty of DK books, I think it really helped them through their Primary school and early Secondary school years."

Certainly made learning more interesting. I never have been one for reading stories but give me a DK book and id sit for hours flicking through the pages, looking at the wonderful pictures and learning lots of new facts.

Turning a physical page and reading text searching out for a specific answer to a question and that feeling of satisfaction and achievement when ive got the answer was great.

I am buying educational material for my daughter but do wonder how much her education will vary from my own when it comes to her attending school (primary and secondary) and how teachers will expect homework to be completed

Think the internet can be a great tool but it lacks the fun factor of books.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

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I adore books, always have, always will.

I used to love doing homework that involved sitting in the library, the only computer available was the green screen one that told you where to find books.

Sat for hours with piles of books in front of me all with bits of paper sticking in them to mark the important pages I might need!

I'm doing a research project now for my OU course, and it isn't the same. All the information is online, because it's social care based, and I just don't get the same sense of enjoyment from it.

I do guiltily admit to going to the library to use their computers, even though my internet at home is much faster, just so I can at least smell the books whilst I work!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

funkyfox, nothing better than the smell of a brand new book.

Im gonna loose my 'cool appeal' here, but i used to help in our secondary school in the Library and we had to apply plastic sleeves to all the new books in to protect them.. couldn't resist flicking the pages. That smell and the slight stickiness from the pages as they were being turned for the first time gave me such a buzz

Remember the projects i completed when i used a book for my learning material. Used to hand write things and draw pictures rather than type it all out and copy and paste pictures from google.

No idea what primary school education is like these days but even when i was at school we were just introducing computers to lessons

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By *pecifically1Woman
over a year ago

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I read a lot.....I love it and refuse to buy a kindle..there is something magical about feeling the pages between my fingers and turning the pages as I get involved in the book....

I can spend hours in the bath with a book....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On a similar theme I've lost many an hour of my life browsing Wikipedia.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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I love my kindle, but only use it on flights, trains and on holidays....it's just easier than carrying around a bag full of books.

At home I read hard copy books.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"On a similar theme I've lost many an hour of my life browsing Wikipedia. "

i tend to use Wikipedia to check out who people are/what they are known for.

even on here when someones name is used as a thread title and ive no idea of the person an the opening post simply reads 'rip' i feel the need to research

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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I have kept all the DK books that my children grew up with, in the vain hope that I might get to be a grandparent one day.

But having seen the Four year old son of one of my workers using an i-pad like an expert, I fear that the next generation of children will ditch books.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I have kept all the DK books that my children grew up with, in the vain hope that I might get to be a grandparent one day.

But having seen the Four year old son of one of my workers using an i-pad like an expert, I fear that the next generation of children will ditch books."

I admit to using a laptop a fair amount, more so when i wasn't working but i have friends whose children are two years old and they have those innotab type things, and even on childrens magazines they come with toy mobile phones that replicate smart phones.

I adore story time and books, have posters up through my hallways. Sometimes i wonder if i am holding her back by not allowing her to use those electronic devices, there is even a desktop computer in nursery.

cbeebies have games on the website that encourages learning but its still technology.. and part of me still wants her to shy away from that

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

"funkyfox, nothing better than the smell of a brand new book.

Im gonna loose my 'cool appeal' here, but i used to help in our secondary school in the Library."

I prefer the smell of old books myself, and a certain type of chap finds a librarian extremely cool.

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