20 Problems Only Bookworms Will Understand

Touchstone PicturesBookworms suffer for their art. There's no denying it. In the current world of fast-paced media with blurbs and summaries galore, the widespread popularity of reading for fun has gone drastically downhill. To finish a novel is not a quick affair, and there are so many more immediate diversions available that plenty of potential readers find it less than tempting to sit down and spend hours tackling thousands of pages of print. Where film and television aficionados have sites like Netflix to stream movies and whole seasons of shows right to their screens, bookworms must visit and order and wait before they can get their hands on a particular novel. There's no such thing as NetBookx just yet, and the costs... well, they add up. This will sound all-too-familiar for some of you. The new releases that you absolutely need to get your hands on right away empty your wallet far too quickly. Buying installment after installment of a series begins to look depressing on your bill. Paying fine after fine on overdue books makes you want to wear a disguise every time that you enter a library. Trips to the bookstore end with a far heavier parcel and far lighter purse than you intended. And those are merely the monetary costs. Read on-you know you're good at it-for 20 heftier and more painful prices that bookworms must pay for the problematic predilection, starting with...