World Book Day, make the world crazy for this day

Did you read the book today? April 23 is the 19th World Reading day. On this day, you will see a woman give a book to their husbands or boyfriends in the Spanish Catalan, while men give their wives or girlfriends a rose; On this day, you will also see the 450 anniversary of the celebration of Shakespeare's birth by the British great writer. This day, more than 100 countries will be organized to promote and celebrate reading activities; This day is the scholar's festival, this day, the world is crazy for reading.

is crazy because in today's society, reading is not a difficult thing. It's not like fifty or sixty years ago, when our parents were children, it was hard to see a book. My father often told me that he was not easy to read when he was a child, and now the children always do not love reading, very do not cherish.


In fact, these are the characteristics of different periods of history. In the past, the spiritual and cultural products are too few, intellectuals and less, the concept is relatively conservative, so if you can get a book to read, it is indeed a very happy, very good things. But now is different, the first thing to wake up every day is to watch the mobile phone, is to turn on the computer. Today's material conditions and spiritual products are so rich that books are no longer the main product to meet people's spiritual needs. Most people choose to pass the time by surfing the internet, watching movies, listening to songs and so on. Fast food culture has gradually become the mainstream of people's reading habits, so, there are many people sigh: this era, can sit down quietly reading people really too little.


but that's the way it is, but it can't be generalized. Why? Because E-books and digital reading appear. So you can't put all the people who surf the internet and the mobile phone to the ranks of not reading, because there are already a lot of people are accustomed to using a tablet or mobile terminals to read.


on April 21, the publication of the 11th National Reading survey conducted by the China Press and Publication Research Institute showed that the reading rate of Chinese adult books in 2013 was 57.8%, up 2.9% from 2012; The contact rate of digital reading is 50.1%, Up 9.8% from 2012; In the reading of paper books, in 2013 our national average reading volume of paper books was 4.77, and the amount of E-book reading was 2.48.


In addition, the survey shows that 66% of adults tend to "read a paper book", 15% of the population is more inclined to "online reading", 15.6% of the population is more inclined to read mobile phones, 2.4% of people tend to read on the electronic device, 1.% people are accustomed to downloading from the Internet and print down to read.


It can be seen that people who read through the internet and mobile phones have accounted for 30% of the total. You know, in 2012, the figure was more than 20%, and it increased by nearly 10% a year, which has to say that the internet and mobile phones are having a huge impact on people's reading habits and ways of reading.


not only this, but also someone specifically stated that E-books want to compare the advantages of paper books, including night can not turn on the lights can read, can reduce the impact on family. In addition, portability, rich resources, small screen, the burden of small heart and so on. Some people even think that small screen eyes can be read quickly, and the book area, the eyes need to exercise to read a line, which delayed reading time, reduce efficiency.


of course, there are people who are not accustomed to electronic reading, at least in the previous data, still more than 60% of people are more inclined to paper books. They think E-books can damage eyesight, and there is no book for the feeling of books, in addition, e-books can not be stored as entities, and paper books have the value of collection. At the same time, some people think that the habit of many years is difficult to change.


in fact, in my opinion, the discussion of what is good or bad is meaningless. Individuals have personal preferences, as long as you want to read, how to see just the way different. But one thing you really need to be aware of is how the Internet and mobile phones affect people's reading habits and reading styles.


we can ask ourselves, since when did we get used to reading short words instead of long words? When did we begin to lose the patience to read a book instead of reading something short and clear? This seems to be a change in reading habits, but it is a change in reading thinking.


Let's think about why we read. Of course, this is a matter of opinion. But on the whole, there are two direct purposes of reading: to promote oneself and to improve one's knowledge. Here for the moment excluding the purpose of reading, this is not discussed. In addition to improving their own self-cultivation, more people want to improve the level of knowledge to deal with work or exams.


Good, understand the purpose of reading, we see why we do not like to read long articles? Many people say that there is no patience. So why impatient? Because I think it is unnecessary to waste time. Why do you think it's a waste of time? Because reading this has no real help to my current job or demand. OK, let's push backwards. Why do we like to read short words now? Because it's quick and clear. Why do you like to be quick and clear? Because you don't have to move your brain. Why do not want to move the brain, because inert. Why there is inertia, because this is the weakness of human nature. Why do you play this weakness? Because there is the Internet, there are mobile phones. The reason is simple, material decision consciousness.


As you can see, reading short words will not bring you work or exams. At best, read a "lazy book" or "A certain knowledge encyclopedia" such a book to roughly add knowledge, but this is not in-depth, and often there will be mistakes. What's more, the reason why the name "lazy book" has been to the people read the short text of the reason said very clearly. Therefore, do not read long articles and like to read short text between the inevitable link. What really makes a difference is that the internet and mobile phones provide a hotbed of human frailty. This has nothing to do with people's reading habits, but it is precisely because of the weakness of human nature to change the people's reading thinking.


Maybe you will ask, what is reading thinking. This is really a difficult question to answer. Checked, unfortunately, did not find. But I can do a reading habit and reading thinking comparison to illustrate. Reading habits are your reading preferences that are motivated by your conscious drive to read. Reading thinking is because the changes in one's own factors make you aware of the changes that have changed the way you read the habit. The internet and mobile phones provide the material conditions for the change of human factors. And this is fast food culture, fast food thinking is very popular one of the origins.


of course, the old saying, this can not be generalized. Because not all people like fast food culture, or a lot of people are willing to sit in front of the desk to experience the pleasure of the book, willing to experience the mood of reading under the table lamp, willing to smell smell the fragrance of the book, willing to write a pen write, uniform strokes, do the reading notes. In this world, all things are born together, not forced. It is advisable to follow the law and find a suitable way of reading, love life, love life, read more books, reading good books. (Huangda)