Sir: Times have changed, whether for the better or the worse. These days everything is being dissolved into new technology. Newspaper, calculators, letters, nothing’s the same way as it used to be. Could this change of time, brought by the advancement in technology, ever replace the joy found in holding the paperback of your favourite book in your hands? The smell of an old book, the feel of its hardback cover in your hands, and the thrill of reading it for the sake of pleasure, these are the things an eBook reader could never compensate for. Yet we see people slowly drifting away from the simple habit of reading. Children would rather watch a movie with fancy CGI than let their minds wander freely in imagination. The love of reading ought to be promoted through libraries, as there are hardly any public libraries in Rawalpindi. The eBook readers, in a way, have taken away the deeper connection people used to feel with books. Books have become another part of technology, and that has ended the long-term intimacy that people have shared with them. Reading allows one to think; therefore something needs to be done to revive the traditional book reading. Hajra Waheed Rawalpindi Published in Daily Times, March 21st 2018.