Reasons
In ancient times reading was an art for elite, and now with contemporary free education in most countries, it’s available for everyone. Till today it’s been the best way of getting information fast and rather cheap. With the development of high technologies and the Internet reading became the main way to get knowledge, because if you have an Internet connection, there’s the whole world on your computer’s screen. However, nowadays people live ‘faster’ than their ancestors, you know what I mean. That’s why a lot of people do want to learn how to read faster in order to get information first. Even such a thing developed as ’looking through’ the text, because there’s no time now to enjoy the language, the style and the meaning. On the one hand, it’s good, because information is money now, and time is money. On the other hand, as I have already said, it’s not the form that matters now, not the language, but the information. That’s why language decreases, as you can see everywhere in mass-media, a lot of clichés appear. They make people not to think at what they are going to say and how they’re going to say it, and just use simple phrases. Only those who have reading as a hobby can afford just enjoying the language.
And what is reading for you?
