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Yes, they are--but that's what's so great about them! Books March 2012 (4)
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are from the past, and since everyone is born at one point in
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People use books everyday. Books are our teachers, our Are Books a Thing of the Past?
entertainers. They are the key to the past and a window into
the minds of others. Books contain stories and knowledge.
And "knowledge is power" (Sir Francis Bacon).

Books can speak to individuals and help them cope with

their problems or simply show them that they are not alone.
They can bring people together who share the same loves
and interests by drawing them out of themselves to become
part of a community, whether it's in a local capacity (like a
book club) or, globally (in the publishing world). But the one
thing books always do is inspire.

Books are also our guides to life's obstacles and curve-

balls. Jesse Lee Bennett said, "Books are the compasses
and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men
have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of
human life." Not only are they educators, they reveal many
of life's wonders. Books reveal the mystical stories behind
the stars, the greatness of Abraham Lincoln and Socrates.
Books show us the strangeness of Hans Christian
Anderson's fairy tales and reveal the the world's scientific
discoveries like Marie Curie's work with radioactivity. Books
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let us experience the blazing hot sands of the Sahara desert
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when it comes to books, I like e-books because they allow
even more people the chance to read because so many now
have electronic devices and don't always fancy carrying a
brick-like book on their back or shoulder.

I read Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and in it, the

characters say that mockingbirds don't do anything except
sing melodious notes. Her book made me think about books
in general and that it would be sad if books ever became
extinct because they do nothing but enlighten us and help
us pass the time. If books ever disappeared... then it would
be like shooting a mockingbird.
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