RE: "The Dutch Reading Culture" for Hive Book Club
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I loved the publication! It is quite comprehensive on various aspects of the contest theme.
In Venezuela we don't have those spaces to exchange and leave books, in fact, day after day you can see how bookstores are disappearing because people are simply not buying books, the only hope I see is the sale of books online through Instagram accounts that apparently are having some success, but it's not the same. At least I always loved going to the bookstore, wandering the aisles checking out everything that came my way.
I share that feeling of sadness about the new generations moving away from reading... one of the things that bothers me the most about this is that they also care very little about having good spelling and grammar, being Spanish one of the most beautiful languages for me, my native language, to see that they write without any kind of shame of making basic mistakes leaves me thinking that the future will be difficult.
Thank you very much for sharing.
That's a shame indeed everywhere bookshops are decreasing in numbers. Also in my country, since still plenty of people buy books, we still have many bookstores around, but fewer to let's say 1, 2 or even 3 decades ago. More peeps buy books online. We have our own Amazon, Bol.com. Similar setup to Amazon. They started more or less with books like Amazon started. Now they are huge, from Dutch perspective 😉
It's kinda interesting, the more we progress into this new century, the more I get the feeling peeps just running around in their lives, from task to task. Not taking the time to read, but honestly, also not taking the time to think about topics. reading can stimulate the thought process a lot, but when peeps read less, fewer triggers as well. I hope I'll be reading until I die. Libraries around. Bookshops will be around still a few decades from now. Though I tried to read electronically, books I mean, I prefer the paper versions. Like you, browsing a bookshop is really nice.
Thanks for your reaction, and read 😉 NJOY reading 🤗