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Originally Posted by Blossom
Now I have over 10,000 ebooks and about 1000 physical books. I've made up for my horrible childhood.  |
I have rather more than that in both categories. An exact count of the physical books would be tough to do, as many are in boxes in an offsite storage unit. I
am double and sometimes triple rowed on the shelves.
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Hubby is one who hates reading. He just doesn't see it as fun. He'll read nonfiction but it's not fun for him. The only fiction series I got him to read was Harry Potter and we read that together.
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Too many adults never do learn to see reading as fun. It's forced down their throats at school, often in manners that will take any fun out of it, and it's seen as a chore to be done because they have to.
A VP at a bank I used to work for once commented "I haven't read a book since I got out of college." He had a degree from Harvard and a Wharton School MBA, and read an enormous amount. But all of it was work related and generally about finance. He was one of those driven folks who simply didn't have time to read for pleasure. I discovered a while back that he had actually
written a book or two, but that didn't happen till long after I knew him.
The Harry Potter books are a bright spot because they got that kind of readership, and were read by enormous numbers of adults as well as the kids that were their intended audience. It was the first fiction a lot of adults actually read for pleasure.
(And Juvenile/YA publishing is an industry bright spot. I was in a mall Barnes and Noble location a while back. It was on two stories, and almost all of the
books were upstairs. The ground floor was given over to the cafe, cards, games, magazines and gifts - stuff that
sold. The only
books downstairs were current Juvenile/YA hardcover bestsellers. If that store
only sold books, they'd have long since been out of business.)
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Dennis