B O O K S

I love reading and have written lots about it.
This is just another one of those.

People who love reading and want to spend their money on books are lucky. Or at least I really think so.

Books are expensive. Or really expensive.
Compared to clothes that you can wear many times to several occasions, or to television shows that you watch by (almost) free.
You can watching TV while you're doing other activities, but with reading, you need to sit down and go on full-concentration mode while doing it.
Besides, it doesn't have pictures so it's boring.
Expensive, non-practical, and boring. Why reading, right?
Knowledge can be gained from other medias, as well as talking for hours with other people which means you can have two-way communications (asking and answering questions kind of thing) while you only get the information from a book and can't ask anything back. Meh.
There's no interesting reason about why you should read a book.
Interesting fictional books at some point also will be made into movies.

Makes sense?
That's why I said whoever loves reading and spending their money on books are lucky.
Because they already gone past that phase and can see what other people can't see.
Why buy books when you can read for free?
Why buy encyclopedia while you can watch National Geographic-ish on TV for (almost) free?
Why reading when you can watch the video?
I can't answer it either.
I just love reading.
I just love buying  books.
I just love having high stacks of books.

My Dad took me to buy books. And my Mom gave me money to borrow books in commercial library. So I never think spending money on books is wrong.
Some people likes buying clothes, shoes, or spending their money on something else and those are not entirely wrong either, so why buying books is?