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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I have no children and no one in my family reads ebooks (or is much of a reader at all), so no doubt my ebook collection will die with me one day. My paper book collection is relatively small and also of no interest to anyone in my family. I'm sure it will be thrown out by my relatives after my death, but hopefully I'm past caring by then.
I've always been the only avid reader in my family. My maternal grandmother did read books, but not so passionately as I do. My parents didn't read books, my sister rarely does and her children and grandchildren almost never do.
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Thats sad not to be able to share that passion with anyone in your family...
My mother was a reader and all three of her children, Brother, Sister and I are massive readers. My wife says she is a reader but really, other than for work as a teacher, she probably only reads at most 4 or 5 books a year if that. My children on the other hand though not the readers we are, seem to be trending towards reading a lot. Lol they certainly loved other people reading to them. They are now very fluent readers with a very above average vocabulary. Something I found very helpful in making them read more fluently and faster was subtitled anime. They love watching with me and now on their own. Their preference would be the dubbed versions but so much isn't that they have had hundreds to thousands of hours of watching subtitled shows that force them to read as fast as you can to keep up with the show. They have gone from very unhappy with subtitles to now after a show, asking was that subbed or dubbed as they thought it was in English, but they were reading the subtitles so transparently that they didn't realize what they were doing. It's not something I ever thought about but when they ask, I sometimes give the wrong answer as I will think it was in English also, when I had been reading the subtitles. Weird psychological quirk?