Reading of Books



by Janice C. Digby


A piece of literature is now more commonly referred to as a 'book'. There are numerous forms this form of writing can take, including handwritten, published, printed and/or electronic. Electronic ones are also often referred to as 'e-books'. In the academic field they are often called 'a monograph', meaning 'mono' - one, and 'graph' - write. This book title is mostly used to distinguish books from other types of printed matter, of which one can distinguish newspapers, magazines, journals, brochures and many other types of printed matter. The array of printed matter is more commonly referred to as 'literature'.

The invention of the printing machine has enabled rapid growth of literature and the number of books written by different authors. As a matter of fact the invention mechanical printing press has less to an explosion like development of printing within a matter of several decades. This in turn has created the interest in reading, which in turn, has increased the demand for printed matter. It has been estimated that there are roughly 113,000,000 unique books in the world, excluding their multiple copies. So in total there are without a doubt several billion books from different authors, genres and covering different themes.

In the vast majority of cases people are reading to entertainment or for aesthetic pleasure. The most commonly read type of book is probably fiction. The reason why it is so popular appears to be quite simple: when one is reading, he/she can create the entire setting of the book, imagining everything in finest details. This is far more enjoyable than watching a movie, where everything has been created and drawn for you. Of course, editors, directors and animation artists are real professionals at what they do, however being able to read a book is much more fun.

Very often is the contemporary generation referred to as the non-reading generation -or in other words, the generation which does not like to read. While it might not be true that the younger generation is not reading at all, it is a well established fact that the younger generation is not spending as much time reading, as their parents did. Whoever makes such claims is most likely wrong than right, because some technical devices allow us to read directly off of the screen, or view an e-book, or listen to its audio version, or simply view the film which is made based on this or that book. In the end however, there is no doubt that the current generation reads no less than the previous generation did, if not more.

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