Readers?

 Do people read any longer? That is the question! Apparently they do. Well, my statement may seem to fly in the face of the realities as there are so very many media vying for the attention of people, both common and uncommon, that it is difficult to believe such a generalisation.

Yet if you were to visit any book exhibition, the venue would be overflowing with the curious ( in all senses of this term). Why, there would a business of give n take of a few crores. So say the business pundits. Apparently it is not just the big cities. In fact, it is the smaller towns and the two or three tier cities that, too, boast of this distinction.

What kind of books are these? Rarely would they be the high quality literary types, neither (r)evolutionary, nothing deep and/or a paradigm changing text. In brief, a layered analysis from the major perspectives of humanities as in philosophy, psychology or sociology, for instance, would rarely get read.

Mostly, these would be  the 'diy' , the 'do it yourself' kinda help books. People tend to buy, and (hopefully) read, the  not so good, cheap  'pop literary text's. The only problem with such shallow books is that they simply flatten the reading experience! That is hardly a read. Yet something is better than nothing, right?

Pratima@ Dear Regular Reader of my blog, thank you! Some proof your read is that people do like the not-so-light serious stuff! Thanks yet again!