Young Writers Society

this is so true, I love it!

Well, I'm not sure. I really didn't start reading until I was about 12. And so many people out there just don't bother with books anymore. My cousin for example, has almost never stepted into a library. Kind of shocking isn't it? Another thing, would be the painful number of E Books popping up all over these days. I wish that everyone loved books as much as us.
( sorry, I don't think the E Books really have anything to do with this. I was simply releassing my frustration! )

thank u guys....
holysocks i totally agree with you....
people have stopped reading books..... they are lacking their reading skills......
but like i said people are connected to reading in someway or the other... like i said some like reading newspaper!! my dad for eg.... he doesn't like reading novels!! but he loves reading newspaper!! but yes it is sad to see that people are getting farther and farther away from book! by the way i don't mind e-books!!

One thing to keep in mind is reading comprehension and literacy has been on a steady decline in North America since the mid 1800s. When reading was the only form of entertainment, a lot more writing got produced and it was far more readily available. All those hard to read classics, written in the late 1800s/early 1900s? They were the average reading comprehension at the time. Most classics were actually produced in serial magazines that published one chapter at a time until the stories were finished. Much like how manga is currently published in Japan.

Speaking of Japan, it is still a highly literate country. They have a 100% literacy rate, the average citizen reads 5 newspapers a day, and manga is still a very popular form of entertainment (all the manga we get here is a small fraction of what's published in the original Japanese). Despite all of their forms of entertainment (consider how many video games and tv shows come out of the country), reading is still a very popular one.

Reading rates have nothing to do with the availability of other screens. Those other screens just give us more ways of viewing the written word. What determines reading rates is the cultural importance put on literacy.

Oh my gosh, we should totally set up a book club guys.

Anyways, on reading. Well, yeah, it's certainly one of the best ways to entertain oneself and to learn. Keep in mind, though, that it's not the best activity for everybody. See, psychologists have determined that people have different ways to understand and comprehend. We have people who can easily understand through reading. There are who needs to see it not in words, but in color and shape and, you know. Then there are people who needs to do the thing before understanding it.

Let's take my cousin for example. No matter how many books I try to read to him, he won't enjoy it because he'll barely understand it. Unless he reads it over and over again, he really won't. He needs to see it in pictures, leading to the fact that some older people still don't enjoy reading, yet still knows the news through seeing the pictures in the paper. I do hope it can be the best recreation for everyone, but unfortunately, it won't be. Science even have something to say about that.

I'm with you on the book club idea!

at school almost none of my friends read...they dont know what they're missing out on!!!
TVs good, but you cant loose yourself in a film like you can in a book. in a book its like you become one of the characters, you feel what they feel, you see what they see but in a film, its all 3rd person. its just not the same thing!