Book Addicts

“Science has proved that reading books activates brain cells and hundreds of people are book addicts and the Internet can not replace books as there is no continuity in reading something on Internet. At the same time, reading on the Internet requires electricity, which is a problem in Pakistan, and books have a longer life, so the Internet cannot replace books.”

—Dr. Muhammad Ali Muhammadi, a physician, quoted in the Daily Times about his love for the 40-year-old Sunday book market in Karachi, which “has no name” and consists of 50 “temporary roadside stalls, set up by spreading books out on sheets of cloth”