If those books were from the British Library, then they're available for free online from the British Library

you're replying to the author, and maintainer, of spiped.

it's mentioned in the article that microfilm is digitised

and you've just conflated anti-semitism and calls to boycott Israel, which I would certainly class as intellectually dishonest.

Actually, no I did not. This is the purpose of the Israeli students being recruited, quoted verbatim in the article - not my conflation. Can I assume that you agree with my characterization of you comparison as intellectually dishonest (and factually inaccurate) since you did not disagree with my point about your post?

wikipedia describes the situation here [0], but i think in general "literate" has a specific meaning here, that you need to know x amount of characters. Some cursory googling leads me to believe the rate for urban dwellers is 2000 characters, but for rural it's only 1500. According to a UNESCO study a few years ago, "11% of the world’s 800 million illiterate adults live in China."

I know it's comparing apples to oranges, but some of my friends in Hong Kong are perfectly fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin but really, really struggle with reading and writing.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese#Literacy

memory is has been getting better over the years, thanks to the memshrink project though. https://www.areweslimyet.com/

But, no? I don't understand how you could possibly draw that conclusion. The "WMD" ISIS have discovered were decommissioned WMD from the 90s. They aren't capable of being deployed.

2.0 should maybe work, 3 probably never :(

http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748

in the sense that there is a personal ceiling for you, yes.

but if you've never trained at elite level, then you can almost certainly improve it up to your (personal) ceiling.