Do you think reading is useful?

Question

I mean there are so many other sources of information, isn't reading outdated?

Answer 1

Very useful. Practically all the other sources of info require you to read. If you mean novels and books, they would still be just as useful. Your vocabulary would increase for example. Reading is good.

Answer 2

Yes!!!!!! I've been an extremely big reader for years, and I have a much better vocabulary than anyone in my class.  

Answer 3

So many sources of information, you say?

And which of them do you use regularly, that don't require reading?  The internet?  Oh, wait, you are reading these words I have typed, I would bet.

If you're talking about reading a book...  Teachers assign books for many reasons.  First, everyone can get a book.  Not everyone in the world has internet ability, but even the poorest homeless person in America can go to a public library and check out or use a book.

Second, literary books are more than just information.  The style of the writing raises emotions and the act of reading the story, filling in the things the author didn't say stimulates the imagination.

If you mean research books, books are used for one simple reason.  They're cheap, compared to other methods or storing data and they are always there.  It doesn't matter if the power fails or the internet is down.  You can't say your book crashed or the ink in the printer was out.

Basically, books and reading are far more a part of your day than you seem to realize.  Try going through one day without reading anything.  No street signs, or TV guides, no internet, unless your internet is voice activated and reads the screen to you in a voice.

Reading is one of the three skills everyone should have and far too many don't have.

Raven.

Answer 4

I will assume you mean reading a conventional book printed on paper. I should think that you will never quit reading in your life, you are reading right now.

Computers are a wonderful way to educate oneself and stay informed, but they have limitations. They crash on occasion, batteries go dead, or you can't get a signal for your internet, or a host of other problems can occur. I have never had any of these problems with a book. I can carry my book to the DMV and my 4 hours there is no longer a waste of time, but a positive experience.  Etc.

I hope you can find room in your life for a good book. Reading simply  for pleasure's sake is a true joy.

If books become obsolete in this world, that will be the day I leave it.

Answer 5

reading isn't a "source" of information if you are talking about fiction. I had to read the same classics I see listed here at YA, and have my favorites. Novels are written to be enjoyed -- good novels have story lines to suck you into the author's reality. Really GOOD books create characters you'll love for years to come. Lord of The Flies I read when I was 10. Call of the Wild -- great book.  a Separate Peace; Cannery Row; Murder on the Orient Express; Sherlock Holmes and The Blue Carbuncle. The internet is DUST compared to a good book.

Once you  as a person gets sucked into a book you like, your imagination takes off. try finding a book of Sherlock Holmes stories. There are lots of them, they aren't very long, and they keep you guessing to the very end.

the internet is just a giant library of information, some of it inaccurate, and any cliff notes, etc have been used by so many kids, I'm sure teachers know them by heart now... they want you to make your own opinions about what you read, not copy some "cliff notes" written back when YOUR mom was a kid.

Answer 6

lol. nope. definitely not. when you actually sit down and read something, you learn more and it forces you to actually think. whereas when you just google a topic, someone's basically already done all the thinking for you and is telling you what they think you should know. Reading definitely is NOT outdated. More people need to be reading in this technological age of the ipods and macbooks.  

Answer 7

You still need it!

Answer 8

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love to read

Answer 9

First of all, almost all sources require you to read. Most other sources are either audio or pictures.

Also, try opening a door that says "Pull" when you're trying to push. Reading would be real useful there.