To Read or Not To Read??

When i was younger i read incessantly. I devoured books not only for entertainment but as a way of learning - especially in the age before TV and the Internet, and well before Kindles and other modern devices. I loved learning, and this was a way i could learn at home, or wherever i was. I wanted to be a librarian, but though I did not train as a professional librarian, over the years i have worked in bookshops, and in libraries as a volunteer. 
Over the years my eyes deteriorated, and though i can see well enough to do the normal things, and can still read a certain amount especially if i can enlarge it, like on the computer, i can no longer manage normal printed word books. 
As i was busy bringing up 5 children I didn't have time for fiction, and so i chose non-fiction that had plenty of pictures, charts etc which are easier to get information from, and survived that way.
26 years ago we got out first computer which was great for writing as i could set the font large and bold, and i changed the background to black and the font to either lavender or (strange but true) lime green, which made it easier on my eyes which are affected by white background.
But this didn't solve the problem of my "input" need, as we didn't have internet back then.
More about this in my next post.