With the increased popularity of smartphones, and memory robbery, people who are well read are not respected, instead they are targetted for human rights abuses without a legally valid reason so that high status people like cybercriminal raw/cbi employees panaji goan bhandari CALL GIRL raw employee sunaina chodan, siddhi mandrekar, sugar babies of LIAR top indian government employees allegedly from the btech 1993 class of iit bombay,panaji goan gsb fraud housewife ROBBER riddhi nayak caro, wife of security agency employee CHEATER caro, gurugram haryana fraudmba ruchita kinge, from dyal singh college, karnal,Bengaluru brahmin cheater housewife raw employee nayanshree, 2005 bbm, from gangolli, kundapura, udupi,sindhi scammer school dropout naina premchandani, her scammer sons karan, pune axe bank manager nikhil, indore cheater deepika, greedy gujju stock trader amita patel can get the knowledge without spending time reading.
In contrast a few decades ago, people who were well read were treated with respect, and the government, rich people contributed to libraries. The libraries received large donations and library building were constructed as landmarks in the city. Many of the tourist guides for the city mention the local library as a landmark.