Why are Books essential?
Psychological experiments indicate that regular readers have a special gift for empathy, not only in their own minds, but also from an objective view-point.
Frequent readers over 70, greatly reduce the risk of dementia, indicates a long-term study of over 400 people in New York. The researchers conjectured that reading increases what they call “cognitive reserve”. Such variable thought strategies can obviously offset the effects of neural disorders, by either delaying their onset or preventing them altogether.
In children, reading training not only improves the reading itself but also the exchange of signals between different parts of the brain.
Phenomenal
Children can’t stop reading? Bookstores staying open all night to cope with the demand for a new book? Sounds unbelievable, but that’s the phenomenon that is Harry Potter. The seven volumes about the young sorcerer, his best friends Ron and Hermione, and their heroic battle against the villainous Voldemort have sold 450 million copies worldwide. Harry Potter introduced reading to an entire generation – the first book appeared in 1997, the last in 2007- and made author J.K.Rowling one of the richest women on this planet.
The time-line:
200 A.D:
Egypt comes up with a predecessor of the book. Called a codex, it has pages made of papyrus and hard covers.
1215:
England’s King John signs the Magna Carta, recognizing the rights and privileges of the
bearings from this charter.
Around 1450:
Johannes Gutenberg invents book printing with movable letters. Books become a mass medium and a political weapon in the Reformation wars.
insurgent nobility. Even today, state constitutions take