Reading Books: A Visual Column

I accidentally published two columns last week instead of one, so here is a bonus column with five images of people reading books - normal service will be resumed next week

"Reading books" by pedrosimoes7 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

"Reading a book" by Ed Yourdon is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

"A child reading a book by Pratham Books" by Pratham Books is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

"Elderly Man Reading a Book" by Nicolas Lagneau (French, 1590–1666) is marked with CC0 1.0.

"Glass Negative - Jean Wentworth Harvie Reading a Book, Melbourne, circa 1917" by Photographer: R. Harvie is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

The comments are open. See you next week!

Previously on Sharpen Your Axe

Life-changing books (part one and part two)

Further Reading

Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter by Frank Furudi

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