Reading books is a great way to pick up valuable information in life. Think about the process a person had to go through, in order to know enough to write every book you have ever read. Generally, a book you can blaze through in a few hours or a couple of days, took months or researching and years of personal experience to compose. The act of reading something is always going to be faster than the act of writing is, if for no other reason than that writing is so much more difficult. Putting something on a formerly blank page is among life’s great challenges, up there with falling in love or raising a child.
The world takes an even deeper turn into complicated country when you consider how large the world wide web is. There are literally more than 100 million web sites, with something like a trillion total web pages out there. The Internet is a vast jungle of different intersecting pieces. You can do just about anything, from finding a mate, getting an online degree or finding a rare vintage piece of jewelry to finding videos on how to parallel park and reading about the recent adventures of your favorite celebrities.
While there is never going to be a bona fide replacement for a simple, old-fashioned book, the Internet is about as close as we can possibly get. Especially now that we have ways to go online that do not involve a cumbersome computer, you can pretty much read anything at any time you want to. There are no more excuses not to be well read, once you know how to read and can use a smart phone or a netbook. Since those are some reasonably easy skills to master, you can pretty much find any kind of information (or fun reading) you could ever want. We are seriously living the dream.
