Why do you read books?

[Jessica]

i think people who don't like to read just haven't found the book they like

either that or they have a learning disability that makes reading hard. and practice will make it better!

well some people totally HATE reading (and they like no book), or otherwise they read comics or magazines :shrug:

 

[darkcgi]

I love ready manuals.
I would probably like a novel but just havent read any since high school

 

[sierrabravo]

other, i.e. "to be learnding things"

 

[Burntblood]

Books are gooder than pictures.
They make stories more better.

 

[katnis]

I agree with you Burntblood it allow our imagination to create its own pictures.

 

[Grin]

To learn... to engage in hearing different opinions... to develop more knowledge about myself and other cultures... to be entertained and laugh... to kill time.... to research.... to understand others better.... to stimulate my imagination and make me think... to know what the current 'in' thing is about so I can discuss it... to search out like-minded people.

I read a LOT.

 

[flopstock]

I think it's wonderful how someone else can put words together on a page and when I enjoy it, I have a film instantly running in my imagination. Of course, if I don't like it, it gets tossed aside like a bad movie trailer.

 

[Godsloveapples]

to cure the mind from ignorance with knowledge

 

[imayoda]

"Because I would fail the class if I didn't."

 

[hart]

Because I love reading and can't understand anyone who doesn't. Yet I'm married to one LOL

 

[Pabst]

reading stimulates the mind and your imagination. a healthy mind gets regular exercise and reading helps in that.

 

[satinbutterfly]

All of the above. :nod::thumbup

 

[Finnishblond]

Maybe that is just a habit.

 

[Solariskun]

To escape the world, immersing myself in a a place with things we can only dream of living and breathing, magic, war, love, intrigue anything can happen between the covers of a book.

 

[Minor Axis]

Entertainment, escapism, adventure, to be thrilled. When I discovered reading and a good book about the 4th grade, I was hooked on experiencing an adventure. One book in particular, although I don't remember the title was a book about time travel, where a group of people go back to the age of dinosaurs. Great entertainment for a kid!

 

[Kyle B]

I read books mostly to learn and to be entertained. I haven't found any that interest me lately though.

 

[GracefulIvory]

Hard one to answer...I read them for pleasure...but that pleasure I would define as "escaping the world." I love to "get lost" in a book!

 

[Dana]

I'm too cool for books. Books are so last century

 

[jassilem]

I read for pleasure and to escape the world.

 

[jose1248]

never really liked reading before but lately I have been reading more and my opinion is starting to sway lol. Plus it can't hurt to improve my vocabulary.