Inside Books: New Year reading resolutions

Amazon reported that Christmas Day was the ‘biggest ever day for Kindle downloads’. Evidently, this year, many people are going to begin to read eBooks. Shaking off the doom-and-gloom that a seller of printed books inevitably feels at such a prospect, I can’t help but notice the nice timing. All these people are trying out a new way of reading for a new year.

Falling into a habit of reading isn’t such a bad thing. (Far better to be the habit of reading a certain format, genre, or author, than to be out of the habit of reading altogether.) But sometimes it doesn’t hurt to shake things up a bit. January is traditionally a time of change, of resolutions, of giving up one thing and taking up another. This New Year, why not resolve to read differently?

Working in a bookshop, I witness many different methods of choosing a book.