Share your reasons for reading and help us encourage our community to participate in Summer Reading!  

This is a social media campaign tied in with Summer Reading where members can post pictures of themselves reading and use the hashtag #ireadbecause to highlight all the many reasons why reading is important, relevant, and fun. We'll have supplies for #ireadbecause displays in the libraries where members can participate, and also be sharing/retweeting some of their digital posts.  

If you want, please share your own reasons for reading on social media as well! Just use #ireadbecause and tag @metrolibraryok on Instagram and Twitter, and the Metropolitan Library System on Facebook.

“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;

I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;

I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;

I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;

I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.”

― Richard Peck, Anonymously Yours