The internet has made reading possible for many people today. People that will not pick up a book are reading thanks to the world wide web. This doesn't just apply to some internet goers, this applies to all of them. Everywhere you go on the internet you see letters and words. People have to read to navigate from site to site. Therefore, a person that has not read anything since high school will be reading almost as much as they used to in school.

The internet has many great stories, poems, entertainment news articles, government news articles, song lyrics, sports reads, and other great aspects to catch any reader's eye. For example, I have a sibling that has read only about eight books in four years of high school, but online she has read everything from poetry to myspace comments to entertainment news. Even my father, who is still very computer illiterate, is reading things that people say in a chat box on his online poker game.

Now, in the new technological world that we live in, children are always using computers. Even scarier, they are using the internet all the time. But if kept on age appropriate websites they can read and search and enhance their minds in ways that we never would have imagined twenty years ago. Our children and children's children will be carrying laptops and other new gadgets to school years from now to learn, to have fun, and to read.

We can actually buy web books and just read from our computer which is incredible. We can just order them, get them, read them, and done~ all from your computer. If there's a word we don't understand we can just go to an online dictionary to look it up. If there's something that is in another language we can just find out what it says through an online translator. There's almost no end to what the internet can do.

So, from now on, when someone asks you if you like reading don't just say that you don't. Most of all, don't forget that when you are surfing the internet you are reading too. If there's anything that you enjoy you can find it online and read more about it. These days, reading is cool on the internet. Give it a shot.

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