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Originally Posted by crossi
Did any of you read the entire encyclopedia as a child? My family had a set and I used to enjoy flopping down on my bed and reading a volume. Did your family subscribe to Readers Digest Condensed Books? They were great and mostly had some pretty good selections. Did your grade school have the book selling program, might have been called Scholastic or something similar, where you could each month select some books to buy from a monthly catalog? I remember they were pretty inexpensive and my mother would let me pick out one or two each month. Do the grade schools still do this? Lots of options back then to start kids off reading early. I don't know if they are still around. The encyclopedias at least are gone.
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I didn't read the encyclopedia cover to cover, but I did flip through and read many articles, whatever seemed interesting at the time. I also sometimes did the same with a dictionary.
Why, I'm not sure. I think it was mostly from boredom and a need to keep my ADD brain active.
I remember when my mother first took me downtown to the main city library. I think it was in 1st grade.
I remember later when I was going to the local branch on my own, I tired of the Children's section and tried to check out adult books. I had to drag my mother back with me to sign something to get my library card authorized for the Adult section checkouts.
And I was a cereal box reader too.