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Originally Posted by bhartman36
I think your husband might be a different case. At least periodicals have the potential of being written to be read and enjoyed (as opposed to the utilitarian nature of financial magazines, for example). He's also got you to encourage him to broaden his view of reading. I tend to think that left to their own devices, the majority of people will follow the progression that OtterBooks laid out...
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It's quite possible to enjoy financial magazines, if the topic is one that interests you. The advantage to periodicals is similar to the advantage of reading on line. Lots of people who might not read
books do in fact read a lot while surfing, but they read in smaller, easier-to-digest chunks. Books require immersion, attention span, and concentrated effort.
The trick to getting a non-reader reading largely revolves around finding things they might like to read about. I met a woman a few years ago who taught English in a community college in a mill town. Most of her students read things like books about celebrities and sports stars to the extent they read at all. Oddly, they liked the work of SF Writer Octavia Butler. A lot of her work revolves around alienation, and that resonated with them, as they didn't have much of a future, and knew it.
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Dennis