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Why we read books?

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Photo by Jarry lee/Buzz feed It was unbearably sad for me to answer this question. A friend of mine stated that learning from other means such as TV, movies and other videos are more fun and less time consuming than to dwell on books for hours. By all means that is true. There are tones of amazing Hollywood movies which offer knowledge on numerous genres. So why do people turn to books when it can be finished in just two hours of video? What do books offer?  Here is a Quora answer by Andrew Weil. "Books have been the primary repository of human knowledge since writing was invented.  Because of books, each generation can stand on the knowledge that has been previously accumulated.  We don't have to reinvent the wheel, because the way to design a wheel has been recorded in books.  We don't have to rediscover the principles of geometry, or calculus, or biochemistry, or nuclear physics, or agriculture, or the best way to barbecue ribs, bec

Join the club, let's love together

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source: Cosmopolitan To everyone with braces and to everyone who know someone with braces.  The pain we all suffer from, the pain people feel that we (with braces) are exaggerating. But my friend, we are saying the truth when we say it’s not for a kind hearted person. You go through incessant pain. Help those braces people around you. Don’t think they are weird. They are people like you. love them ;) 6 Things a person with braces can understand 1. We long for taking a bite of apple (it does not matter if you like apples or not.) Once we are with braces we feel like Hector Barbossa. Getting a bite of apple is like getting our life back. 2. We start seeing two kinds of food. First, the one we can eat and the other one which is delicious and tasty. 3. Our favorite pass time will be checking the movement of teeth by running our tongue over them. People give us some strange look but we simply cannot help it. 4. We get addicted to use mouthwash every time we eat som