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

Books with good stories are often described as "hard-to-put-down".

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

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

You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey. If it is a good book, you might say, “It’s so good I can’t ...... .... ......”

Some stories are for “swallowing”. Imagine that you have found a good story, and, what is even more ............, the time to enjoy it.

Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are ........... in, you will want to “....... and digest it”.

Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one you can ........ read and understand.

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

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 ..........”

Why read when television can bring you all the ......... and ....... with colour, picture and action?

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

A S.............. F.................. book is a type of book that is based on imagined scientific discoveries of the future.