To not understand why some people don't read books and don't have any in the house?

[Kasterborous]

I can understand that people don't read books due to not having any time, or not being able to very easily. But how come other people don't? There are so many different books to read. I don't read anything literary or too heavy going, but I love reading. I even go to bed early when DH is on nights to read. I always remember looking round a house when we were looking to buy one, and this house didn't have a single book in it.

I'm not being a judge or having a go at anyone who chooses not to read, just curious. they probably have interesting hobbies and better things to do with their time.

I don't understand why people DO have books, and importantly where on earth they put them. We are a family of 5 and can just about fit in our house WITHOUT books.

Information is available other ways, faster, better indexed and through a richer and wider range of mediums.

What's richer then a book?

Sure lots of things are more hi tech but nothing sparks my imagination more than a book.

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My mother in law does not read any books ever. She reads the front page of the paper now and then and that is all. I don't care, each to their own but she goes on about all our 'dusty books' that we bring in to the house when we come to stay. So fine if people don't read but they shouldn't criticize people who do!!! I love reading and prefer it to TV.

starlight I blame you, and you alone for the decline in bookshops and the disappearance of libraries.

Or I would, if you weren't mostly lovely

I must admit we would have more room if I could bear to part with more books. I think I'm just a bit of a hoarder in general and can't bear to get rid of stuff. Having said that though I had a big clear out before DD was born and again in January when we moved house.

Different people like different things. Mindblowing, isn't it?

It is mind blowing hopkinette

To be honest, I think I have a pathological fear of books.

My parents were teachers and hoarders. I couldn't see the floor for them and I spend my childhood and young adult life thinking I had smelly feet. In actual fact, my parents could never get enough of a space on the floor to clean it so my feet picked up the dirt and sweated into my shoes - bleugh.

I now have a book and newpaper-free home.

I like reading, but I like reading research mostly and that doesn't come in books, and thank god, I don't have to have it in papers.

I don't watch TV either, but I do spend a stupid amount of time on the computer. It's just amazing what is 'out there' to learn and be absorbed.

I adore books but I understand that other people have different interests!

DH took DD to a birthday party and when they returned he commented on the lack of books in their house. Big tv, no books.
I grew up in a house full of books and they were the only things I wanted from my parents house after they died. I love those books, they are like a huge comfort blanket

Lovely mrs de vere. Well you did your bit in the name of culture there

My parents had a house full of books but they weren't good parents.

Well I don't understand why some people only read crap books! Nothing any cleverer about a bad book than a good tv programme!

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Welcome back mrsdv. :o
Now, go gently, no P&C threads, no bunfights, no pretending to be a t-rex

my imagination is 'sparked' by music, everyone's imagination is sparked by something, i don't really get why reading novels makes one it more desirable than than the other. my dp loves books, has thousands but would not touch a fiction book. my imagination is sparked by the crap people write on mn

Bloody hell I forgot Naomi Campbell wrote a book. Well 'wrote'

I got rid of a load of books recently, it felt great. I had had them for years, i kept the ones I really liked and got rid of the Zadie Smith esque crap which I would never read again. Boxes and shelves of books which I had carted around with me for years.

It is nice to see you mrsdv, haven't seen you round these here parts for ages.

I read a lot less than I used to. Haven't read a novel for ages. I just read non fiction now. God knows why.

Naomi Campbell's novel is an underrated masterpiece, as is her solo album.

All of the above statement is, ummm, true.

I didn't know you had left

I hope you feel better soon. Bloody hell though at battling the netmums morons, can't imagine what that was like in the wake of what happened in woolwich.