Books are gifts to us from their authors.
Books are the primary source of learning--
we cannot imagine how students could learn
without the facility of books.
Investing in books has lost its mode
in the present-day affairs of the world.
Some students attend school classes
without the benefit of a single book.
Text books and reference materials,
aside from literature, creative writings,
documentaries and biographies,
are our necessary tools to face
the challenges of the turbulent world.
The youth of today cannot simply ignore
or take books for granted and prefer
to learn from the internet.
There are learning modules and programs
specially tailored for students
and learners in the web.
Retention of learning is almost always
assured by the possession of books.
Books can be handed down from generation
to the next learning generation.
Yet, investing in books seemed to have
lost its fashion in the present-day
affairs of the world.
The Book Collector seemed to have
silently vanished as a unique human specie.
Now, the common problem is always about
English language and grammar,
either for composition or for street usage.
It is a fact that English has become
one of the international languages
of mankind that cannot be taken for granted--
if anybody wants to see the world.
We also read world history from books.
The story of the world cannot just be
handed down by word of mouth.
The newspapers and magazines that
were once fashionable are now
beginning to fade out in circulation,
thanks to the internet that has provided
the alternative reading avenue.
More readers are turning in to movies
instead of reading stories from the book.
Most of them would prefer a 3D movie
to a classic story book, and little
do they know that these movies
are all taken from manuscripts
in the form of a book.
In the Philippines, where daily subsistence
is the primordial concern of everyone,
investing in books is a twisted obsession.
Filipinos buy books only because
they need them in order to graduate
and earn a Master's Degree
or a college diploma-- but even that
could be arranged without the need
of a book.
With the availability of desktop printing,
the availability of books should have
grown geometrically--- but no,
modern cybernetics only furthered
copyright infringement and plagiarism.
All we need now is just one copy
of any book in any field of study.
This book must be free-- gratis et amore.
If we write books and think we
should get rich by writing them, write again.
Nobody should be allowed to get rich
by a single book.
Theses are written for the academe
and the advancement of research and knowledge,
but it is not yet for wisdom.
Books become valuable either because:
they contain the wisdom that we all need;
of the expenses incurred in producing them;
of the invaluable time spent in writing them;
or, simply because without price,
nobody would care about a book!
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