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Child psychologists believe that reading is one of the best habits that should be encouraged in children. Ninety percent of the things we learn during our lifetime come through books; therefore if we can’t read, we can’t learn. Books appeared long ago. At first they were written by hand, but after printing was invented, it became easier to publish books. There are two large groups of books: fiction and nonfiction books. Fiction books are most popular with readers and include short stories and novels of different genres and poetry. Non-fiction books are dictionaries, reference books, historical books, biographies, encyclopaedias and others.

In my childhood, my mother read different books to me and that helped me to love reading. When I learnt to read, I was really happy because I could read books which I wanted and liked. At first, they were fairy tales, adventure stories and comics. Later, I was fond of detective stories and thrillers. Now I read historical novels and I realise that I do not know many things from history and it is so wonderful that I can learn them now and understand facts that I could not understand in my childhood. During my studies I also use non-fiction books like dictionaries and encyclopaedias to find necessary information.
Today television and the internet have almost replaced books because these recources provide any information one wants and some people think that in the modern world we do not need books at all. i think, however, that books will never disappear, because reading gives us pleasure.
modern technologies also made it possible for us to use electronic readers insted of paper copies of books. on the one hand, such readers are very convenient as you do not have to carry a thick book in your bag : you just take the reader and upload text files into it, so instead of several books you just carry one light electronic device! in addition, you may also keep pictures and even music files on it. lastly, it is more environmentally friendly to use an electronic reader - cutting down trees is not needed for their development unlike the process of producing paper copies.
however, everything has its disadvantages. to begin with, such readers are rather expensive and not everyone can afford them. one point against it is that free electronic texts to download are hard to find. finally, paper books are more pleasant to hold in hands : touch their pages, turn them over, feel their smell. i have an electronic reader and it is convenient, but i still read paper copies of books too.
to sum up, it is impossible to live without reading and even if paper books may disappear in the future, people will never stop reading.

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