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Introduction

Reading is one of most absorbing hobby. It :-

Sharpens one's comprehension.
Build one's self-assurance and skill in dominating a page of print.
Also helps in developing good vocabulary.
Why Read.

Would reading be worth spending time?
or Look at it this way.
You are a college student, who some how never liked reading,especially text books and now you find yourself overwhelmed by books and start sleeping in studies, so by developing a reading habit you would be able to:-
Develop a mind set in which you realize that you - not the book - are the master.
To look forward with self-assurance and eagerness to tackling you reading assignments, because you are able to whip through a chapter efficiently and with accurate comprehension.
Discover a technique for quickly extracting the essence, the meat, of a page, of a chapter, of a whole book - with total concentration, without wasted effort,without sweat.
Take some other possibility
You are a business executive and scores of papers come to your desk every day; such as reports, trade journals,minutes of meetings,clippings pertinent to affairs of your firm. Each must be read, quickly but accurately; it is essential and crucial, that you should be able to read through for main ideas and comprehend the same.

It is possible through reading and reading only. And hence develop reading as your hobby or pastime.

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Reading Techniques.

Five indispensable techniques which you must master to be a better reader are:-

Reading more, and for longer period of time, (read an entire novel or a complete magazine in single evening).
Reading always, and everything, with a calm, sure, confident sense of urgency
Reading with keen awareness of the structure of a piece of writing.
Reading flexibly, (adjusting your rate and style of reading to what you read and your purpose in reading it).
Reading so that you interpret more of what you see in less time
We should cultivate the quality of learning how beautiful a book is, the feeling that this is treasure to hold in hands, to look guard and preserve.

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What to Read.

Learning to read, as you know is a continuous,never ending process. If you do very little additional reading, or if you read only material that offers no challenge to your comprehension, your reading will be of very little use.

Too many of us, once we reach a certain age, or once our formal schooling is completed, become so restricted in our choice of reading that we shy away from any new type of reading experience. We are reluctant to try anything beyond the level of a detective story or light novel, as if no other kind of book ever published could possibly interest us. Or we read only books in their professional or business field. Or only inspirational books. Or only our favourite newspaper every morning. Or only one magazine for which we have developed a liking.

And the trouble starts here. You should neither read only for entertainment nor only for information but you should also read for intellectual growth, for mental stimulation, for enriching your background of knowledge,. for increased wisdom, and for broader outlook and a mature understanding.

What kind of books should you read to continue your intellectual growth, to gain " a background for opinion and touchstone for judgment"?

The answer is simple one: Read books in fields you have little or no acquaintance with, books that will open for you new horizons of learning, books that will help you explore new areas of knowledge and experience, books that will make the world and people more understandable to you, books you can really sink your teeth into.