How To Finish Reading A Book

Books have gained more reputation over the years as many more people are becoming acquainted with the habit of reading. However, while the act of reading is one many find easy, smooth and enjoyable, it is undeniable that quite as many people find the process daunting. My job today is to help you, if you feel what I’m talking about applies to you. You see, not everybody would like the same things and this diversity is what makes us beautiful as humans. At the same time, we cannot discount how reading is a nice habit to have. I mean there are several scientific studies that have gone into the importance and benefits of reading to the mind and cognition. However, these scientific details aren’t what we are talking about today. If you have been finding it difficult to read at all, or you begin a book and hardly make it halfway through all the time, this article is for you. Together, we would be exploring ways to become better readers because there is nothing in the world that beats that feeling of accomplishment you experience by finishing a book.

Read what Interests You

Interest is the first key to getting on a book journey and finishing it. If you start to read a book that you are not really interested in or seems boring to you, it becomes difficult to get through. You really should go for books that genuinely interest you, it makes your reading process a whole lot easier and you find it more enjoyable because you are reading what you already consider interesting.

Try Paperbacks

Quite some controversy here but before the internet or technology got to this level it is in the world today, people read books, people wrote books, many in fact loved books. This is why a lot of book lovers tend to use the phrase they love the feel of a real book in their hands or that they love the smell of a hard paperback. This is not far fetched because you see, paperbacks afford you the privilege of tangibility which every other book form wouldn’t. This tangibility many times serves as a motivational push to really go on with the book and perhap till the end.

Technology is rewarding; explore audiobooks

If the tangible advantage of paperbacks can be termed a useful motivation to complete your reading, similarly, technology has it’s great motivational benefits as well. Ebooks are great book forms as well especially in terms of their ease of use and portability. It is why Kindle may be beneficial for you if taking paperbacks with you everywhere seems like too much trouble. Asides ebooks, another book form you may explore further is audiobook. The good thing about it is that all you have to do is listen, you also have the advantage of portability so you can listen anywhere and anywhere.

There is power in a community;Join a book club

If there is a sure path to seeing that your goals are achieved, it has to be through accountability.A good interesting book club would grant you that. By belonging to a community of fellow readers, you can be sure of constant motivation to read a book and see the reading through to the end. Furthermore, it gets better if the book club consists of people with whom you share similar taste in books.

Try one chapter a day

Rome was not built in a day. I imagine that this statement is probably overused already and now sounds light but it is truly applicable to this topic of finishing what you have started. I very well understand that we all have different reading paces and one may not be easily comparable with the other. However, the most important factor is to recognize your pace especially by measuring a book you truly enjoy. If you are perhaps not too sure as to your book taste or are yet to make up your mind how much a book interests you, you may go the one chapter per day route. The average book has nothing less than ten chapters, pace yourself and take it one chapter per day. Eventually, you either enjoy the book so much you end up finishing it before you realize or you simply carry yourself through by reasonably pacing your reading over a few days. Either way, it is a win win.

So from the points above, I believe you may take one or two to implement for your reading to get better. No more halfway abandoned readings. However, you also need to remember that if a book is totally unenjoyable and you feel there is not so much to be gleaned from it, do well to put it down and pick up another which would enjoy reading.

Happy reading.

Ayinke