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Lost art: Book reading has taken a back seat as digital platforms and social media have grabbed the wheel PIC: INTERNET

Through the agency of words, artworks, pictures and designs, books engage with the ethos and crises of our times. They are also a hinge that pivots us into old and new eras. This task of creating, recording, collecting and saving is called “content” by some in Botswana and other places.

But, everyone who now talks excitedly about “content” must know that they really draw on the nature of, the reason for, and the appeal of books.

In any case, only books contain a contents page and at the beginning for that matter! Inside them, books hold every conceivable human interest, from literature, history, sciences, art, pictures, morality, ambition, up to angst. This makes books good for us in many respects.

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