Let us read printed books

Books are a great source of enjoyment, recreation and knowledge. In recent years, PDF (portable document format) books have become popular across the world for their easy availability and low cost. But in many people's experience, it has been seen that they tend to forget quickly what they read in the PDF version. And they can remember better when they start going through a hard copy of the book, touching the pages and marking them.
Actually, reading hard copy books involves one's labour and time. Maybe after searching for long, or after looking for a long time, one manages a hard copy of the book. So, there remains a love for the book. And readers remember the content better. It is time to go back to the habit of our older generations. Let every neighbourhood build a library to serve people of the locality. Let there be book festivals to encourage reading. Let us make the price of hard copy books as low as possible so that people of all income groups can take up reading. We should resume our habit of reading hard copy of books.

MA Islam,
Dhanmondi, Dhaka