BENEFITS OF READING

1. Books are our best teachers and give us  answers to some questions. They are like a cure or therapy when you are sad or tired. A book can be one of your best friends.
2. Reading is escapism, to escape from reality is a pleasure for us these days.
3. Geography Books help us to learn about foreign countries and other continents.  We can learn about their animals, plants, people and their habits and character.
4. When we read widely, we improve our vocabulary, spelling, and speaking skills so that we can express ourselves better. 
5. Books also enrich our life and force us to think.
6. We get wisdom – the more we read the wiser we become, and we make better decisions in our life.
7. Reading trains our imagination. You can imagine your world.
8. We learn about good values because books help us make differences between good and bad things.
9. Books help us to understand others´ feelings and emotions, we boost empathy.
10. Fairy tales are essential for small children because they teach them to distinguish good from evil.

CRISIS OF READING

1. Books are more and more expensive, and people cannot afford to buy them.
2. People say that reading books is a time-consuming activity that takes a few days or weeks. Instead of reading books they prefer watching films because it takes just one or two hours and everything is ready for you on the screen.
3. Many people prefer looking up information on the Internet.
4. There is also discussion about e-books, printed books and, audiobooks.

E-BOOKS

PROS about e-books

• Capacity – you can keep/ store thousands of books on one device
• Portability – they are small and light so that you can take the books with you wherever you go
• Free books – they are cheaper than paper books or for free
• You can make words bigger – to enlarge them
• It‘s comfortable – you don‘t need to go to the library or a bookshop to get a book.
• Foreign language learning – you don‘t have to stop reading and stand up for a dictionary for a word you didn‘t understand. You click the word, and a window displays the definition of the word.

CONS about e-books

• You need a special handheld device called an e-reader to read a book. It is quite expensive.
• They may damage your eyesight if you don‘t use a high-quality e-reader.
• E-Books require power. You have to recharge the battery in your e-reader.
• Not all book formats are compatible with the reader. Every e-book reader allows different formats of text files to be read. Examples of format types are PDF, Word, HTML, etc.