Book-lovers spoke out on Sunday about the dying culture of reading books among the people – especially among the youth.
They said that war, poverty and the increase in digital media platforms has had a devastating impact on the culture of reading books in the country.
A number of book sellers in Kabul say that business is so bad that some days they can go the entire day without selling anything.
I never thought I'd give up paper books. Then one day I spent about 18 hours in an emergency room. They don't even have National Geographics anymore. Nothing to do but watch drunks and dopers. The next day I bought my first Kindle. I currently use a Samsung Galaxy, mostly, with about 400 books on it, most from the Gutenberg project or Usenet. |