The People Who Don't Read Books

[viva la]

1. Well, what's a "book" these days?

I am a proud reader, of course. 2 books a week, at least. But now most of my "reading" is listening to audiobooks. Is that reading a book? It is a different experience (I do not remember the plot of audiobooks nearly as well, for one thing), but when I'm done, I say, "Oh, I read that book."

Lots of people read a whole lot online-- articles, Facebook, Twitter. "Non-readers" probably scan their eyes over more words than they did ever before.

And people who want "story" can get all they want streaming TV and film. They can have their imaginations provoked, identify with characters, experience vicarious emotion from watching Netflix shows. Again, this is a different experience than "reading".

But it is still opening the mind and taking new stuff in that comes from the creativity of other people.

However, somehow I get the ideas these two don't think "the creativity of other people" is nearly as important as themselves. "I got nothin' to learn!"

Except Ye, apparently, wants to learn all the wrong things.