Celebrate Engaging With Books

Don’t Be a Jerk About This

Recently, I saw young people engaging with books at Barnes and Noble. Yay! We should celebrate this. Yet across the Internet, I’ve seen people scoff at this.

Enjoying the Barnes and Noble Café. (Source: Photo by the author.)

Many readers (especially younger ones) are enjoying the books they love both online and in the real world. They are annotating books — for fun! They are making BookTok videos and…