Before libraries, paper books were expensive as owning a house until mass printing was invented by Gutenberg, a German inventor.
Right now, we have ebooks and audiobooks. You can include videobooks to be a little bit techier. The creation of digital media has made access to information easier and faster. The time saving from this invention is enormous. This means that some people are using the gained time to become smarter by reading more.
Patrick Bet-David, an American Entrepreneur advocates that an all-the-time entrepreneur should be reading eight books a month. I use to think I read a lot until now. However, this is possible and it requires plenty of sacrifices. Forget about leisure.
The way I do it is using audiobooks. At this instant, some books are not available in audio and other books just have to be read on paper, especially reference books covering subjects like physics.
To compete intellectually in the global village, you need to be a lot smarter than before. It has become more imperative to educate our people here in Nigeria because the world is moving on faster than we think, while we fall behind the more.
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