For books or for money

I consider myself a reader, always have and always will. I can read from historical non fiction to almost sleazy fiction. I have always considered books to be one of the best assets in the arsenal of a human being. Books to me give provide the imagination that reality can't. Books are something that I have always considered something to aspire to, something that you keep with you. Consider my love for text books, I haev saved all my textbooks since I have moved to the US.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise when I tell you guys that I visit my local bookstores regularly. But this time I spent considerable time in the bookstore and finally came to the conclusion that the current literary state of affairs of our young kids is not entirely their fault. Consider the availability of books at your local bookstore. There are books in millions almost, but out of those there are only a few that are readable. I do realize that it may be a gross generalization, but I am right.

For the past 30-40 years the importance given to the quality of material has gone down, rather than that books have been made to sing the tune of money. When children are faced with such choices, they are almost unnaturally forced to "not read". This of course is something very subjective, but I think that with books like these there will be less and less number of children reading.