In the 21st century, books are obsolete. Some might say that books are home-bettering essentials. Let’s face it. Reading a book requires more work than required.
To read a book, gravity is involved. Keeping the book open means sitting up. Or, it means lying down and holding the book up, so that the pages do not fall closed. Plus, one needs lighting. If it is too dark, reading in the dim light hurts eyes.
All those difficulties are out of the equation, when you read ebooks, which have ushered in an era of binge reading. Reading a tome via eBook is as easy to do as spending endless hours reading posts on Facebook or deathscrolling memes on Instagram. Ebooks have a light built into the screen, so you can read in the dark. No problem.
Ebooks are free. Just get a VPN, go on libgen.rs, and type in what you want. You are bound to find the book is available for free download.
Besides, audiobooks give reading new depth. Enjoy the warmth of someone’s voice, a skilled elocutionist. Soundscapes transport readers into the text setting. Best of all, listening is passive, and does not require the level of preoccupation that reading does.
I really do not understand the fetishism of buying first editions and vintage covers. That is such a waste of money. For the way books lose approximately ninety-nine percent of their value after purchase, it does not make sense to buy hard copies.
The library often has available whatever book you want. Some might say, I need more time to read books. The library will not give me enough time to finish. I say, the late fees there do not matter much. It is one of the few institutions that charge very little. The library and the post office serve the people at affordable prices.
Online libraries make the process of getting information easy as eating good food. No more does one have to go somewhere. From the privacy of home, one can log on and find any book. It only takes a couple clicks. No need to waste time, gasoline, physical effort, a librarian’s help, or money, which gets spent at bookstores.
To book luddites, enjoy the fruits of technology, as all the ideas that books sought to elevate society with were not for naught.
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