If we are speaking of reading a book to completion, I’d have to admit it’s been perhaps not a full year, but a while. I do not like to read from screens. The n

If we are speaking of reading a book to completion, I’d have to admit it’s been perhaps not a full year, but a while. I do not like to read from screens. The next book I was keen on, from the Culture series, arrived from Amazon (ordered new) with signs of heavy water damage, making it unwieldy to read. I have been in a limbo of not wanting to deal with that and not wanting to be wasteful by ordering another one. There are also more non-fiction books that have been in various stages of completion for more months than I would care to admit. However, while I like books, I wonder if in the golden age of information (now drawing to a close) it should be expected that fewer books would be read without a decrease in literacy or education: for a while in somewhat recent past non-fiction books used to be the only way of obtaining a wide variety of information, a lot of which is now covered by numerous other sources (blogs, references, and so on).