Where have books gone!!

Most of the leisure time are gifted are spent,with our computers, most of the other mediums of entertainment as well. Where have books gone, the libraries have decreased in number I guess, more and more Cyber cafes are opened and also many other modes of delivering human pleasure have come up rather than new book centers.

People do not have books on their list when it comes to spending time. The books are the ones I believe give any person as much pleasure and imagination that one could probably attain in any other way.There are pdf's but they don't match real hand held books,the wonderful stories,novels,science fiction, are getting dim day by day.

Have you tried Ebooks?

Do you prefer a book in your hands, or have an ebook reader device with a library's worth of books loaded? Do you use MS Reader, or Project Gutenberg?

I like having a book in my hand,but I also like having accessible ways of finding "new" material...Gutenberg is good for Public domain reading, classics and such, with MS reader you can buy more current ebooks. I still have one of the ebookman devices-mine was flawed-battery life wasn't great, and if you changed the batteries, it wiped the books in the memory! I recently discovered booksinmyphone.com,which has an app you can download to a cellphone with Java software. I think it's the ultimate portable ebook!

After you have bought a book how many of you actually ever re-read the books?

I do not think I have ever been able to re-read a book. Once I remember I stopped reading a self-help book and then went back to it a year later and tried to re-read the beginning and became frustrated with it because it started to coe back to me. I do not think I could re-read a book (especially a fiction book) where I already knew the ending.

How many of you re-read books?

Every writer has their own kind of writing style

They are all unique in their own way. It is the combination of all the things that makes a writer what they are. It is their technique, how they put their words together to form their story. The content, what their story is about. The way they choose to tell the story. Whether they choose to make it humorous, serious, mysterious or sad it
can be up to the individual to decide which way they want to tell it. And then when it is finished it is up to the person who is reading it to decide how they interpret it. There are so many different things that go into being a writer. That is why we have so many and so many different types of books and writings and each one can be just as great in their own way.

How much does it bother you that people type so poorly on the internet?

It's obvious that some people aren't entirely uneducated, but, why do people insist in writing so poorly at the computer when they wouldn't do it with their hand writing. It's already easier and quicker by default, yet people keep skipping letters or rearranging them in incomprehensible orders.

Are you annoyed by this? Are you capable of reading their messages always and without issues?

The problem here is not when they make a typo by accident. That happens with all of us; I'm incredibly prone to that which is why it's good I keep a dictionary add-on in Firefox.

The problem is moreso when the "rule" of the first and last letter in place stop applying, with the letters on the middle aren't just misplaced, but when people plain and simply steal letters altogether from it and mash up the rest. When not only they do this with one word but every, single, one from their whole message!

Sure, you can still perceive them, but then it's almost like if rather than english we're all using l33t speak.

The dash and hyphen aren't the same

The dash and hyphen aren't the same, but many writers use them as if they were. Do you use a dash--if you use one--as the grammar books dictate? Or do you use a hyphen - like this one - to punctuate your sentence? Do you put your dash next to the word--like this, or do you leave a space after the last letter and before the first of the two hyphens -- like this?

Which is correct?

Which character do you like in harry potter?

I like Ron the most in the main characters of Harry potter but i would love to mention another character which is my favourite of all.

He is harry potters enemy MALFOY who studies with him in Hogwards. I like his personality as well as his acting in a negative role, i think he better suited in a positive role of harry's friend rather than enemy.

I like trying new things

Personally, I like trying new things. I don't have much access to tea or anything for herbal teas, since my income is rather scarce right now, but I am interested in different ways to get a good tasting drink. One thing I've done was mix a spoonful of poppy seeds in with black tea. It gave the tea a smooth, almost sweet flavor, and it also helped ease the edge that the caffeine gave me. Is there anything that anyone else likes to do?

Anyone who has seriously considered the profession of writing

Anyone who has seriously considered the profession of writing, as I am, has most likely considered the fact that it takes a great toll out of anything that would happen to you in the future. I have had people in my life, people who were earnestly trying to help me, do their best to discourage me from being a professional writer. Their reasoning was that I would starve and always be poor. I was even told that a person needs to be as famous as Stephen King in order to make a living as a professional writer while not having to work some other job like accounting or retail.

With me, I'd shrivel if I tried doing those for the rest of my life. I'm currently unemployed, due to reasons other than simply wanting to write, so I do have the time right now, but in order to make a living at it, I know that I need to be able to write full time so I can have to edit and actually make it nice.

As I am right now, I am struggling to forget the discouragement I received in the past so that I can move on and actually do what I believe I was made for. The times when I do not write are the times when I do not really feel like I am living. I could write and never get published, but where's the fun in that? Why should I be satisfied with simply letting my creation sit there and do nothing? That would be like building a car and keeping it in the driveway to say that you built it.

For me, writing is not just a "hobby", as I have been told I should consider it. It's a way of life. It is the purpose in my life that helps define me as a person. I am a writer, that is what I am. I cannot escape it; I have tried. Is there anyone else who feels the same way about writing? Am I alone here? Am I mad or insane? What is the price you would pay to write?