When you "taste" a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end.

Some people think that as more and more people have television in their ..........., fewer and fewer people will buy books to read.

Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be .................., and some few to be chewed and ..........”

This good advice shows how it is ....... to read different types of books in different ways.

Books are still a ...........way to get information and ........, and you can keep a book forever and read it many times.

That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the ............ time, check that it is not too ...........

But, in fact, television has not ........ reading. Today, more books of every kind are .......... than ever before.

Television has replaced books altogether.

But not all stories belong to this class. ............. sometimes describe books as “hard-to-put- down”, or “hard-to-pick-up-again”.

Books in the home are a wonderful source of ......... and ..........

For example, you might ....... ...... a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep.

Many people only have time to read when they are travelling.