5 ways to read a new book

Category: Motivation || Published on : 2020-03-27 10:33:47 || Author : Sonali Dangi 4 1735

Reading is a habit every human ought to develop. It just not helps in being better than before but also gives numerous experiences through a book in one life. Reading is one of those rare habits which a human could opt and enforce himself to think and grow more.
Many of us choose reading a habit, and try to read many books as much one can. But sometimes the wrong pattern of choosing and reading a book also hamper to understand the essence of a book. In that order a right pattern is very much needed to learn maximally from a book. Here are some ways that would help you in reading a book in order to receive utmost learnings from it.

1. Choose a book wisely
It is the very first and indispensable step of reading any new book. It will decide that how long are you going to hold the book in your hand to read. When we choose a book unconsciously to read, initially we try to read but gradually we start losing our interest from the book and get no kind of good learning from it, but develop a wrong habit of quitting things.
Choose a book of your keen interest especially if you’re a beginner at reading. Then as you would utilise your time in reading, your mind would start to take interest in all sort of books, but till then feed your mind the interest what it likes to keep. For that you ought to know your interest. What genre of books do you like; fiction, non-fiction, mysterious, horror, etc. Initially if you don’t know your interest, I would suggest you to go with fiction books. That will help in binding your interest with the story and wouldn’t let you chicken-out the book without giving it a completion.

2. Read the Preface & Acknowledgement
After choosing a right book for self, the time comes to read the preface and acknowledgment letter from the author of the book. It would help you in knowing about the book more nicely and in continuing it. A preface is a written work to tell about the frame line of the book. Sometimes it consists the incidents and events which brought the idea of writing the book.
By reading the preface one would get the idea of the story and here would get one more chance to select the book. Being a reader, still if you have some doubts in your mind to choose the book then all the doubts will be cleared through preface of the book. Talking about acknowledgement letter, it is purely the work of author in order to introduce him/her. So, it’s very august to give a read to preface and acknowledgement of a book.

3. Use the bookmark
Using bookmarks while reading a book is a very good habit. If you use bookmarks to keep the last reading in mind, then very good! But if no, then you ought to develop this habit sooner. Bookmark just not helps you to know where did you last read it but also saves your time by getting you attained directly on the point where you need to start reading.
You can use sticky bookmarks; it provides you some space to write points. You may write there at the end what you learn from that part of the book.

4. Highlight the Key points
While reading develop a habit of highlighting important lines. Use a highlighter for this. By doing so you will be able to recall all the learnings that you get from the book. When you highlight something, our mind works accordingly to focus more on reading concentratedly in order to mark important things. That improves the way of reading of a writer.
You may even write all the important notes in a notebook, and read it often. This will be like a revision of the whole book in a very short span of time.

5. Make a summary
Writing the summary of a book not just brushes-up your reading but also improves writing. When you make summary of a whole book in some pages, you evolve the habit of abbreviating the large things, which will be so much beneficial for you. It would teach you the habit of writing and speaking your thoughts in a concise way.
And your own made summary of a book is like your self-made short book to read it in short time to bone-up all the learnings of your favourite books. So, you can go through them very easily.

Books have always been very good friends of human with zero expectation in return. And when you read a book with proper way to get the optimum learning from it, it maints its friendship at its utmost.