Are city dwellers lazy to read books?

“I have noticed that young people’s reading habits and skills have gradually changed. The laziness in reading books among all of you is increasing, even when books are distributed for free and reading culture is gradually leaning towards “instant noodle” technology: fast reading, short reading, thin reading.

You are afraid to read thick books, classic books, theoretical books, even specialized books. Meanwhile, the time spent accessing electronic websites and social networks accounts for a high percentage.

In my opinion, to partly solve this 'disease', the team of managers and lecturers must be the pioneers in coming to the library to first form their own habits, then be role models to build habits, and arouse students' passion for reading.

“My friends and I also read books, but mostly reference books and specialized books for studying. I also know about classical literature, but I don’t have much time to read and understand them thoroughly.

Personally, I think that nowadays, there are many young people who read books, but most of them read romance novels. The reason is that romance novels are romantic and dramatic, the main male and female characters are often beautiful, talented, young and talented… very suitable for the psychology and dreams of today’s generation.

I think in this day and age, it is not necessary to read paper books, reading e-books is also a good idea."

“On weekends, my mother takes me to the library to read books. At first, I didn’t like it because I couldn’t run around or make noise in the library, but then I found it… okay.

I like reading comics the most. The library has a separate reading room for children, with pink tables and chairs and many cute animal drawings, so my friends and I often come early to choose the best seats.

But in my class, few friends know about the library. Only me and one other friend are taken to the library by our parents to read stories."

“I am not a reader. Like other young people, I am very dependent on the internet and social networks. There is everything I need.

I myself have never known or participated in any program or event to introduce, promote, or respond to Vietnam Book Day. I have only been invited to perform a few times at events of some young authors in Hanoi to launch new books. “Ah, so this is a book introduction, so there are events like this!” What I want to say is that the promotion and communication of book programs and events are still very poor, the influence is not high, the events are aimed at young people but young people do not know anything about them.

If Nghe An could organize big, attractive, youthful book events like the book streets in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, I would definitely come and buy some books, why not?

“The coffee-book model actually only took shape when the shop was completed, and a few close friends brought books to read. I watched and thought to myself, the space of the shop is beautiful and quiet, making coffee-books is so suitable! And so, as you can see, 4 spacious bookshelves with hundreds of books appeared, over time, customers coming to the shop showed great interest and response.

In my opinion, today’s youth are really lazy to read books. But if there is a beautiful, suitable, quiet space and a few short story books nearby, it is not difficult to guide them to read books.”

“Currently, the provincial library welcomes about 4,500 readers per year, of which about 2,000 are children and teenagers from secondary school age and under, about 700 are young people from 16 years old and up, and the rest are elderly people.

According to calculations, only 1 out of 107 people in Vinh city go to the library to read books, which means less than 1% of the population!

On the other hand, the provincial library currently has about 17,000 books, an average of only 0.2 books/person/year.

According to the statistics of the Publishing Department, on average, Vietnamese people read 2.8 books and 7.07 newspapers each year, of which the most popular type of book among young people is… comics (60%). This is too low compared to many countries in the region, such as Malaysia, where their average is 10-20 books/person/year.

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