Aish!

I think what should honestly scare people is not physical books disappearing because everyone’s switching to e-books.

For one, it’s not going to happen. E-readers can be expensive, and until they make electronics 100% fuck-up proof, books will stick around.

What we should be worried about is books disappearing as a whole because no one wants to read.

Reblogged 6 days ago from mercmouth

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books, reading,

imeva483:

reading.

i think reading is like traveling around the universe for free.

you create your own world by reading another person’s creation.

you dream while your eyes are totally open.

you fly while you’re still standing on your feet

you cry & smile at the same time

reading is awesome.

Reblogged 2 weeks ago from fuckyeahreading

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reading, books, yes,

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer—it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer—it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

(Source: kimreadsbooks)

Reblogged 3 weeks ago from fuckyeahreading

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books, favourite, quote,

cinderellainrubbershoes:

The Book Thief | Markus Zusak

Reblogged 1 month ago from bingbag

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books, favourite,

Reblogged 1 month ago from fuckyeahreading

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*.*, books,

Reblogged 1 month ago from fuckyeahgaiman

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neil gaiman, books, favourite,

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

- CS Lewis (saw this on that ONTD post about YA lit being awful and childish. Expresses my thoughts completely tbh)

(Source: bingbag)

Reblogged 1 month ago from bingbag

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preach it, books, reading, dumb ppl, quote,

cake & other things: i’m about to be tl;dr about books, sorry. This post on ontd really...

bingbag:

i’m about to be tl;dr about books, sorry.

This post on ontd really bothered me. I know Joel Stein is a gigantic asshole, but the amount of people that agree with him….ugh.

I come from a family of readers, reading has always been my favorite pastime and I don’t think that will ever change. I…

Reblogged 1 month ago from bingbag

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books, reading, yuss,