IT’S a great thing to see that the Oxford Mail is campaigning to get more people into reading.

However, I do hope that those that are dyslexic get a little extra help.

I understand that up to one in ten people are affected with this problem to some degree but, unfortunately, often get labelled dense or lazy. Looking down a list of famous people with this problem, which includes famous authors, it’s clear that nothing could be further from the truth.

There was a time, not many years back, when reading wasn’t considered all that important, particularly if you were a girl.

In any case, there wasn’t a great deal of written work about, besides the Bible and, in this case, it was considered to be the duty of the priest to interpret that for you.

Even those in power relied, to a large degree, on scribes. Today, words are everywhere and it’s difficult to imagine being without an ability to read.

DERRICK HOLT

Fortnam Close

Headington

Oxford