1. Reading for you is limited to browsing through text messages, emails or Facebook posts. No, reading a long comment on the benefits of regularly shampooing your dog doesn’t count!
2. You go to the cookery section of a bookshop to search for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
3. You think Paulo Coelho, Jeffrey Archer, Roald Dahl, Stephenie Meyer and Deepak Chopra are a famous chef, sportsman, a curry, a politician and an IT geek in that order.
4. You can’t complete this title, The Monk Who Sold ___ _______.
5. Your newspaper reading is confined to Calvin and Hobbes and the very confusing weekly horoscopes.
6. You just don’t get the expression, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.
7. You have not looked at a book or a magazine (the actual articles, not just the pretty models populating them) in a month, or you have bought a book, but have not read it before passing it on as a ‘birthday gift’.
8. You have not visited the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai or any other book fairs around the world, or you have, but only to munch on the burgers and carrot cake sold at the stalls.
9. You don’t know who claims to be the ‘Earth’s largest bookstore’ and who claims to be ’The world’s biggest bookstore’? Yes, they are two different entities.
10. You don’t know what a blog is. Well, for a start, it is a ‘web log’, which became a ‘blog’ eventually. Let’s go to level two - if you have heard of a blog, then what are “multi-author blogs” (MABs)? OK, I am just showing off now!
