Literature of Yesteryear
By PLETHOS
@Plethos (13718)
United States
February 1, 2018 9:13pm CST
No idea why this came to me in the mail. I never ordered or showed interest in doing so. All I know is that I saw a box in the mailbox and thought it was for someone else, perhaps delivered to the wrong house.
Last time I ever saw one of these books it was paper cover and just a few pages. This book is hard cover and has a few hundred pages. I have no intention of reading it. If I do use it, it'll more likely be put under something or as a weight.
In all honesty, I thought they didn't exist anymore. With the decline of people buying reading material published on paper and more gravitating towards reading off their kindles and what not, I thought it went into an extinction of sorts. A victim of the dying breed of publications.
I have read these in the past. There once was a time when everyones house would have one in the restroom. Every waiting room had one on the coffee table. Remember those times?
Photograph- Taken/Owned by me, Plethos
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
2 Feb 18
But, but..... you have to read it!
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
2 Feb 18
my uncle used to submit to the "armed forces humor" section..
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
2 Feb 18
@Plethos they only do it once in awhile..like every couple of issues.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
2 Feb 18
It's an actual book? Was the name on the package correct?
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
2 Feb 18
@Plethos Wow so strange!! Hopefully you didnt' get charged anywhere somehow. Or did you sleep shop? 
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@Plethos (13718)
• United States
2 Feb 18
@infatuatedbby - nope. Sleep shop with what?
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@acrogodess (992)
• Aberdeen, North Carolina
2 Feb 18
Ha. That's weird. So it was just delivered to you with your name and you didn't order it? Maybe someone sent it as a gift and didn't send a slip. I didn't even know Readers digest was still around lol
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@acrogodess (992)
• Aberdeen, North Carolina
3 Feb 18
@Plethos lame. I don't even think I know anyone that's subscribed to it currently. Last person I can remember subscribing did so back in the 80s. Lol
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
2 Feb 18
I never liked ro read abridged books but until now I read paper books
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
3 Feb 18
Internet remains a medium, the books remain important. I wonder what would happen if some gets to knock down internet and electricity permanently.
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
2 Feb 18
We used to have a subscription to this when I was a child. One of the highlights of my month was waiting for the postlady to pop it through the letterbox so that I could rifle through its pages, beginning with Laughter is the Best Medicine.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
2 Feb 18
That's interesting. Maybe they thought you would buy a subscription if they sent you a free one
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
5 Feb 18
How neat, I would have stole it. 
I did go to the library and buy like 60 National Geographic's from the 60's thinking they would be valuable one day. Learned if library selling them, never will be valuable. Not in this life time anyway.
I did go to the library and buy like 60 National Geographic's from the 60's thinking they would be valuable one day. Learned if library selling them, never will be valuable. Not in this life time anyway. 1 person likes this
