My whole life I've never really acted like the age I was. I've always been very mature and ever since eighth grade I've been asked by people what college I was currently attending. Just the other day a guy in my choir asked me if I was a senior. Mind you, we're now half way through the school year and I see this kid every day.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I've never really been a kid... or a teenager for that matter.
I mean, sure, there are certain things about me that are character traits of the typical teenage girl, but usually I am more like an adult.
I could go more into that, but that's not really why I started the blog post, so I'll save that for another time. What I really wanted to talk about was how teenagers in my generation don't read enough.
Seriously, so many people talk about how they don't read any of the required reading for school, yet alone read for fun.
It just makes me sad... Especially because there are so many things that you get when you read such as a wider vocabulary and a better imagination. Overall, reading makes you smarter.
And apparently the world agrees with me because many new inventions are making reading more appealing and "easier" for people everywhere to do. For example, electronic reading devices such as the Nook and the Kindle allow you to carry around a portable library, and new phones with Kindle apps allow people to have books on their phones.
Personally, I don't use a Kindle or a Nook and I hopefully never will (some people think that physical books will eventually be completely replaced by electronic copies... that's one of my worst nightmares), but I do appreciate that they are making more people become interested in reading. Not a lot of people I know, but at least some where there are people whose intelligence levels are increasing.
Now that I've said something positive about Nooks and Kindles (which I will now collectively refer to as Nooks because that's shorter), I have to talk about the negative.
Why I hate Nooks:
1. Their commercials litter my TV. It's annoying because you don't see commercials for actualy books on TV. Not even the Harry Potter books were advertised on TV when they were first released. Books are better than TV commercials and the devices that you can read them on should be too.
2. They might make books become considered obsolete and therefore cause publishing companies to stop printing them. This would compeltely break my heart because there is nothing better than opening a brand new book and hearing the spine creak, or the smell of books (old and new).
3. I get made fun of for carrying around books in my purse, yet it's perfectly fine for my friend to carry around her Nook. Double standards much?
I could continue, but I feel like I've hated on Nooks enough for one day.
Read books more and buy them so that hopefully they will continued to be published for a very long time.
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