Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

  • Leon@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    Reading one book, or a single series of books doesn’t make you a reader. I wouldn’t claim to be a plumber just because I’ve fixed my sink a handful of times.

    The idea that Harry Potter spawned a “generation of readers” is entirely manufactured by its publishers, there’s no data backing that claim up..

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      Nobody said it was a revolution for reading or literacy, but just by sheer number the book still has still likely spawned more readers than any other books in recent decades.