10.02.2011

Has reading become a past time?

We have numerous books in our house-- you know, those things that contain letters, words, stories, imagination, adventure? They sit on our looming bookshelf, lonely and dusty, peering at us as we are consumed by our nightly shows on the computer. With the lights off and the neon glow of the screen, our books are easily forgotten about. Even with our normal day-to-day, they are forgotten about. With the ease of wifi, computers and pretty much all technology, books have become displaced; put away in the dusty attics, left alone under beds, trashed and given to Goodwill. The world has seen the Amazon Kindle, no matter that it could potentially put printers out of business. Don't your eyes hurt from looking at that screen for so long?? And what happens when your battery dies? Your book is gone and you are left screaming with your hands to the heavens because you were at that one spot of the story where she....  With websites like Spark Notes, you don't even need to buy that book from the syllabus! Just read the notes online. Not only that, when was the last time someone genuinely encouraged you to read a book, and you actually read it?

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