Love of reading books are weird? yes/no

[Bookybug]

Hello!
I was just watching beauty and the beast lately, and it kept me thinking where Belle is been thought as different because she loves book. What do you think about that? Are book lovers usually different from the rest?

[AliceofX]

Well, it's certainly accurate to the period. I remember reading the memoirs of the painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) where she talked about how she was proud that she never read a romance novel before her marriage and blamed them for her daughter's bad marriage. Nowadays I don't think it's that weird anymore. Maybe reading some genres, but not reading in general.

[Star88]

A lot of people think of reading as a boring past time. Because it is not as mainstream, it is considered weird. I don't think something should be considered weird if it is what is done most often.

[Bookybug]

good point..

[Carol Cisne]

I've found that many people say they like to read but few mean that they like to read books. They like to read the newspapers, magazines or something a little shorter than a book.

But I also think it's more common to find book lovers now with all the e-book variations...so it's not seen as eccentric as it used to be.

[Sally_Heart]

Invasion of technology has reduced book lovers a great deal.

[TheWriteAngel]

I wouldn't say weird, but it's not the most favourite pastime due the length of a book as compared to magazines/comic books. And these days with technology taking over every aspect of our lives does put up a challenge to readers.

[Gingerbo0ks]

It's still seen as weird or geeky, probably due to the effort involved compared to just sitting in front of the TV. I wish it wasn't seen as an "uncool" activity.

[Bookybug]

point to be noted in that as well

[Brandi Noelle]

I'm a complete Book Nerd, but I don't care. Reading gives a freedom that very little else does. It allows you to live another life and visit another place or time, something that even movies/television can't do to fullest capacity.

[Bookybug]

yes, that feeling is solely for book lover?

[ReyvrexQuestor Reyes]

Yes. In these times of the cellphones and computers, most everything seems done via the internet and allied services. Books could easily be obtained through the net. If what you meant is reading books the conventional way, from the hard copies, that is precisely what I was referring to as weird. Although the reading of a book may still be a normal habit, the means of doing it is the thing in question. That is because a book that may still be the classics, the colored images, or the moving format to which it has been transformed into -- the movies, could just be browsed or obtained by electronic means.

Far be it from me to portend some Doomsday prediction, but I imagine that should the current system of things all come to a halt, for one reason or another, it is wise to back up the books with hard copies, just in case.

[Bookybug]

reading with latest technologies are fun, to you can read wherever u are and so on but i am more inclined towards reading the hard copies... the feeling of the flipping the pages as the story progress, the smell of the book, very soothing ??

-- 22 Oct 2017, 00:57 --

so certain books u love... have a hard copy @reyes opinion also to ve noted

[Lincolnshirelass]

If it's weird, I'm glad to be weird!

[Bookybug]

way to go buddy!!! :-3