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title: "touch books · GenZ Decoded"
description: "touch books: A play on \"touch grass\" urging people to log off and read or visit the library. Example: \"Enough scrolling, go touch books.\" Meaning and usage."
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# touch books

Gen Z[#lifestyle](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/lifestyle/)

**Meaning.** A play on "touch grass" urging people to log off and read or visit the library.

See it in a sentence

Enough scrolling, go touch books.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

    touch books,[touch grass](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/touch-grass/)

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    No word for this one yet.

- Gen X

    [get a life](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/get-a-life/)

- Boomer

    No word for this one yet.

- Plain English

    play on "touch grass" urging people to log off and read or visit the library

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## Related slang

- [to the max](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/to-the-max/): Intensifier meaning extremely or very.
- [totally](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/totally/): An intensifier meaning very, completely, or extremely.
- [twerk](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/twerk/): To dance squatting low with fast hip thrusts that make the buttocks shake, a move usually read as sexually suggestive.
- [vanilla](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/vanilla/): Ordinary, plain, or boring; lacking any excitement.

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