8 Reasons You Should Be Reading Books Too

Peo­ple don’t read books as much as they used to. There are still a lot of peo­ple that read on a reg­u­lar basis, but for the most part there isn’t near as many that used to. I think it has a lot to do with soci­ety as it is today. It seems like every­one is in a hurry. They appar­ently don’t have time to read. And with the inter­net so preva­lent nowa­days, it seems like every­one is con­stantly on the go.

I’m all for read­ing an ebook or report on the com­puter. Or even read­ing one of many blogs that I’m sub­scribed to. The inter­net is full of bite sized chunks of infor­ma­tion. I love infor­ma­tion and these are awe­some ways to get it. But it’s still not quite the same thing as read­ing an actual phys­i­cal book. It’s a much dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence and I think it’s some­thing every­one should indulge in, at least every once in a while.

Here are 8 rea­sons you should be read­ing books too:

1. Eas­ier on the eyes: Read­ing on a bright com­puter screen is hard on the eyes. Try­ing to read on a screen for a period of time will wear your eyes out much faster then read­ing from pages. Even if you have a very nice big screen, you will still be work­ing your eyes much harder then if you would with a book.

2. It’s relax­ing: Sit­ting down and curl­ing up with a book is a great way to relax and unwind. It’s one of my favorite things to do at the end of the night. I can learn and relax at the same time. That’s hard to do dig­i­tally, even with a laptop.

3. It can be an escape: We all work hard and it’s nice to take a break from it all. Books can do that for you. Maybe next time instead of relax­ing to a book about your busi­ness, pick up you favorite fic­tion book and dive into it. It’s a great way to get away from things and when you are done your mind will feel refreshed. You’ll be more then ready to take on the “real world” afterwards.

4. They help you learn: Just like other forms of read­ing, books are a great way to learn. And they cover sub­jects just as exten­sively as their dig­i­tal coun­ter­parts. So there isn’t any excuse not to learn from a phys­i­cal book as well. If I have the choice between a phys­i­cal book and a dig­i­tal ebook, I’ll take the phys­i­cal one with­out a doubt. If your want­ing to read on how to progress your­self or your busi­ness, it’s still pos­si­ble with­out star­ing at the screen.

5. Make your­self more valu­able: I talk about this in my arti­cle on ezin­earti­cles about knowl­edge. The more you learn about your field of mar­ket­ing and busi­ness, the more valu­able you are to oth­ers. And here’s why…

6. You become more able to teach oth­ers: Read­ing is a great way to learn and it enables you to teach and pass on that knowl­edge to oth­ers. That is what most of online mar­ket­ing con­sists of, infor­ma­tion. The more infor­ma­tion we can pass on, the more valu­able we are to others.

7. It makes you stop and slow down: As busy as every­one is these days, I think it’s impor­tant to stop and look around once in a while. In a way read­ing does this for you. More specif­i­cally when you stop and read an actual book. I think we need to slow down every once in awhile and smell the roses. It’s healthy for us all.

8. It’s an enjoy­able expe­ri­ence: This may just be a per­sonal thing, but I enjoy hav­ing a phys­i­cal book. The feel and smell (you don’t smell books? Maybe I’m just weird.) is a unique expe­ri­ence on it’s own. Being able to flip pages is some­thing you can’t do on the computer.

Now every­one is dif­fer­ent. Books are as much of a per­sonal choice as any­thing else. But I think it’s some­thing we should use at least once in awhile. I’m not say­ing you need to read a real book all the time. Heck, I spend quite a bit of my read­ing time on the com­puter too. I think it’s kind of impor­tant though. What do you think?

~Chris

Do you enjoy read­ing books more than on the com­puter? And are there other rea­sons you read phys­i­cal books?

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