In the middle of the covid-19 pandemic that is hitting almost everywhere countries in the world, make up almost all routine community activities everyday activities become disrupted. Especially with the government's appeal to stay at home, makes some people feel bored if they don't there are activities that can be done. But don't worry because there are still many things which can still be done even at home, one of them is reading. Reading here is not only defined as reading printed books, but Currently there are many books in electronic form or what is known as e-book. There are many benefits from reading books, one of which is to deepen things knowledge and increase knowledge because books are a window to the world. This time We will give some tips to library friends in choosing reading materials which is useful as a friend to relax at home :

1. Get to know the Author and publisher

Famous authors will usually be inundated with buyers or their work often a best seller, that is a common thing. Apart from that famous authors and publishers will always include contacts who can contacted, such as the publisher's domain address, name of the author's social media account and publisher, as well as telephone contacts that can be accessed by readers.

A good book is usually written by an author who have expertise in their field. Competence and skills can be seen from every article contained in it which is a reflection from someone who has experience in creating various works in the field.

2. Adapt the information to the characteristics of the reader

There are various characteristics and preferences of a person of course different from the others. Everyone has tastes and own interest in something. If someone has a hobby cooking, Most likely the books he reads are related to recipes cooking. However, if someone likes automotive, Of course he will be interested in books reading related to the automotive world. This is what a person is based on in deciding which books to read. Personal needs are indeed important. Is the book useful to read or not?. Don't just buy it or read a book if there is no benefit for us.

3. Based on personal experience or true stories

A reader will quickly absorb the content of a reading if contains empirical experiences/true stories. Stories or stories of experiences The personalities of writers and other people will feel close to our daily lives. We can easily feel it as if we too have experienced it that. One of the reasons why personal experience can be easy understood by the reader because the content makes sense and is most likely partial of us have experienced this. Especially if it's a book or reading contains motivation and enthusiasm for life from other people, we seem to be joining in carried by the positive energy he wrote through the threads of each his words.

4. Use a language style that is easy to understand

One of the important things for someone to consider in reading a book is because the language style used is easy to understand understood. It's not long-winded but the delivery is precise, which is an important point for readers. A good book is a book that can be understood by various people circles so that anyone who reads it can understand the content and message the author wants to convey. The story flows as it is with style good language, grains, and not provocative and sarcastic to the parties another. How to get readers interested to spend line after line lines that make you want to continue reading them is the author's skill in processing his language style.

5. Get to know the synopsis

Before reading the entire book, most of it of us will definitely look at the synopsis of the book first. By looking at the synopsis, we can decide to continue reading it or not. So the synopsis plays an important role in influencing reader's decision. It's like a synopsis is the same as a promotion, because aims to provide an image of a product. I don't know if that's a good image or bad depending on the flow of the synopsis conveyed. Get to know the flow whether you can get into the content of the story or not.

Remember! Don't let librarian friends choose the wrong reading… Because our mindset depends on what we read. Greetings Literacy 🙂

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