At the Ivrea stand at the Book Fair, 400 tips from the public to invite you to read

The comments will be resumed on the social channels of the Italian book capital and will become food for thought for the Manifesto for the future. «We are very happy with the response from the Salone public – underlines the councilor for culture Costanza Casali -. Our idea was to launch a reflection precisely in the place of reading par excellence, but also to capture the attention of visitors and make them feel part of the capital year “

IVREA. The ambitious goal of Ivrea, the capital of the book, is, at the end of the experience, to write the Manifesto for the future of books and reading. And the work could only include an event at the Turin International Book Fair, asking a question without mincing words: what would you do to make Italians read more? The answers are contained in over 400 colorful post it notes written by visitors to the show and stuck to the wall. The whole has taken on something suggestive, so much so that it has become one of the most photographed walls in the hall.

Any answer? Let’s see it. There are those who wrote turn off football, who (and it was predictable) turn off smartphones, who help them understand that thanks to books you can be amazed, who say to live a thousand lives how and when you want. Then there are those who suggest updating school libraries with novels and graphic novels, those who propose setting up a day a week to dedicate to reading, those who suggest talking about geopolitics to spark curiosity. There are also those who do not answer the question but observe that we should have more time to have aperitifs and read books or give advice how reading makes you free and makes you age better or simply leave your signature we are from Ivrea.

The comments will be resumed on the social channels of the Italian book capital and will become food for thought for the Manifesto for the future. «We are very happy with the response from the Salone public – underlines the councilor for culture Costanza Casali -. Our idea was to launch a reflection precisely in the place of reading par excellence, but also to capture the attention of visitors and make them feel part of the capital year ».

Ivrea Italian capital of the book and the book fair have also launched the survey on reading habits that will involve over 30,000 people. Participation is open to all readers, who can respond to the questionnaire on the site https://ivreacapitaledellibro.it/ –