As for the media, it is undoubtedly best to read paper publications – books, newspapers, magazines.
The human eye is better able to perceive information printed on paper than that which shines on a computer or laptop monitor. The speed of reading a paper medium is higher and the eyes are not as quickly tired. Despite such good physiological reasons, there are still many factors that point to the benefits of reading printed publications. Especially worth mentioning are books.
A source of knowledge, a friend – what not to call a book. Everyone knows that the best gift is a book. As a rule, books are printed with serious, necessary and “intelligent” writing. Before a book is published, the manuscript is checked by an editor.
Why is it good to read?
The benefit of reading is enormous, reading, a person learns something new, interesting (uninteresting and would not read), broadens his horizons, enriches the vocabulary. Reading gives people aesthetic satisfaction, it is probably the most universal and easy way of entertainment, as well as the most important part of cultural and spiritual self-improvement.
Psychologists say that reading is an indispensable process at all stages of personality formation. Beginning at childhood, when parents read aloud to their children, and ending at a mature age when a person is going through a personal crisis and is growing spiritually. Invaluable benefits of reading in adolescence. Reading, teenagers not only develop memory, thinking, and other cognitive processes, they develop and emotional volitional sphere, they learn to love, forgive, empathize, assess actions, analyze the actions, trace cause-effect relationships between events. Therefore, absolutely obvious benefit of books, which allow you to grow and educate a holistic and harmonious personality.
In the process of reading a person’s brain is actively working, and both hemispheres, reading (left hemisphere work) person constantly draws images in his imagination and pictures of what happens in the story (this is the work of the right hemisphere). Thus a person not only enjoys reading, but also trains, develops the capacity of the brain.
Facts about reading
- Eyes look in different directions while reading.
- When reading, almost 50% of the time a person’s eyes look at different letters. The lines of sight can both diverge in different directions and cross.
- 95% of people read very slowly – 180-220 words per minute (1 page in 1.5-2 minutes).
- There is less eye fatigue when reading quickly than when reading slowly.
- Comprehension level in traditional reading is 60%, in fast reading it is 80%.
- During an hour the reader’s eyes are fixed on the text for 57 minutes, i.e. they are in relative rest.
- When reading, the reader’s eyes, looking at different letters, transmit a different image, but the brain still combines them into one picture.
- The eyes of a person with average reading skills make 12-16 stops on one book line, while a fast reader makes 4-2 stops.
- A traditionally reading person has a one-step fixation of 10 print characters (that is 1.5-2 words per line). A fast reader has 200-500 characters (that’s 33-83 words of several lines).
- Slow reading has 0.5-0.7 unreasonable returns to what is read per line.
- Students have 20 regressions per line; students have 15.
- Traditional reading loses 1/6th of the time spent on regressive eye movements.
- Napoleon read at the rate of two thousand words per minute.
- Balzac read a novel of two hundred pages in half an hour.
- M. Gorky read at the rate of four thousand words per minute.
- N. A. Rubakin read 250,000 books.
- Someone named E. Gaon remembered verbatim 2,500 books he had read.
- T. Edison used to read 2 or 3 lines at a time, memorizing the text almost a page at a time due to maximum concentration.
On the benefits of reading
- Reading makes your eyes sharper. You’ll understand and see the world and people around you better, and most importantly, yourself.
- Reading keeps you physically healthy. Putting letters into words, words into images, to realize what the author wanted to express by them, and to find their own explanation – this is gymnastics for the brain.
- Reading helps you to concentrate. You can read with music and during class: read and not pay attention to the hustle and bustle around you. A trained reader has no problem watching four programs in parallel, switching channels all the time. If you wish, you can read in transport.
- Reading helps you to spend your free time pleasantly. You will never get bored of reading books, because there are so many of them, several lifetimes will not be enough to read them all. You’ll have to try many different genres before you find books you really enjoy. Don’t give up until you find “your” book, because it can be life-changing.