On Reading Day, please tolerate more reading methods.

Reading Day is coming, and like Guangxi, a number of excellent books have been launched all over the country. Not only the publishing house is actively recommending new books, the school is also carrying out a variety of reading activities. If it had been 30 years ago, these activities could have been described as colorful. However, from a point of view, although these activities are rich, they are really not colorful.

This is because the reading books provided by the relevant departments are still in a single form, all of which are paper books. These books, for most people before the 1970s, are bound to be admired. We have long formed a reading habit-without paper books, it seems to be tasteless and devoid of water. Take me, for example, I like paper books, and I like reading in bed. Without paper books and lying in bed, I can't feel it.

However, I also found a phenomenon that young people in our unit actually like to read. They don't like to read paper books, but they like to read electronic versions. Some are reading with the phone, some with the tablet, and some with the computer on.

At present, there is an understanding in society that reading is getting farther and farther away. Indeed, there are too many ways to entertain in this day and age, including TV shows, movies, shouting on the wine table, and neon lights in the song and dance halls. Due to the diversity of entertainment, reading is indeed less, unlike in the past, a book can spread throughout the village, until the book is incomplete, still as a treasure. If we come to the conclusion that reading is going to die, it is also unscientific and unfounded. Paper will die, but reading will last forever.

It's just that the way modern people read has changed. Just as the ancients can't say that reading is dead just because we don't read bamboo slips anymore. Instead of reading bamboo slips, we read paper books. The reason is the same, today's young people do not want to read paper books, they do not let reading die. Reading is everywhere, just a change in the way of reading. They read electronic books, and they are used to this way. They don't like long speeches and like to read more concise content, which is also in line with the busy living environment of modern people.

To create an era of national reading, we need to change the concept of the publishing department, not only reading paper books is called reading. Do we need to move more wonderful contents of paper books to the Internet? There are a lot of problems in online reading, and there are a lot of shoddy e-books. Isn't this the handover of the traditional publishing department? Should we also create more short and excellent works according to the reading habits of young people? Can we also publish more formal e-books?

To create an era of reading, we need to adapt to more ways of reading.

Author: Guo Yuanpeng