If you think that the tried and tested pursuit of reading a book ‘from cover to cover’ might have been supplanted by the advent of information technology you may wish to know that there are instances, quite a few of them in fact, in which old habits die hard.
Ask La Toya Barton, whose own passion for reading led her to establish The Book Hub, an online bookstore that offers a bewildering array of titles, fiction, non-fiction, and school texts.
The service exists, she says, because it keeps open a door which avid readers might well have thought had long been slammed shut by the contemporary book-loaded Kindle that allows avid readers to carry their libraries around in their haversacks. Good books, La Toya believes, apart from affording readers the pleasure of their fingertips being applied to the turning of the pages, allows for the accumulating of ‘classic reads’ on bookshelves that contribute to both tasteful drawing room libraries and to the accumulation of treasured memories.