Reading (essay)

Achmad Hamdani
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Lately, the reading interest in Indonesian declined sharply in the last 10 years. Based on PISA, in a research of reading interest in Indonesian that children until adult, their reading interest very low than other countries. It makes Indonesian as a country which the bookselling is lower than smarphone sales. Whereas reading a book has many adventages: can adds insight and knowledge, improves the quality of memory, trainings focus and concentration, even it can reduces stress.



Reading books can add insight and knowledge. In book surely contains information which can improve our insight and we get the information with reading it. Then book also contains knowledge, for example like schoolbook. Reading books that contains knowledge is necessary to pass examination for students because the information or knowledge from the book help students to pass it easier.

Beside that, reading books can Improves the quality of memory. When we are reading a book, inderectly we are also training our memory to remind the information what we have read. Reading books makes us have to remind about the information of book. Surely, often reading books makes us easier to keep save information because we have trained  and accustomed with it. So that often reading books makes our quality of memory better than before we are seldom reading book.

The next advantage of reading books it can training focus and concentration.
When we are reading a book, we have to focus and concent to get the information accurately. When we do not focus and concent in reading a book, it is too difficult to get the information suitable with the book. So that when someone is reading a book, he wants to get the information of the book and he has to focus and concent in reading. It makes us trained and accustomed to focus and concent by often reading books and makes us easier to be focus and concentration.

The last advantage of reading books it  can reduce stress. For example a student who has many assigtments and events in his college which make him stress. Reading book is a alternative to solve the stress because it can reduce the stress. The suitable books to reduce the stress include novel, short story and fable. We have to enjoy with  the reading book to be happy and reduce the strees. Whereas iwhen we interest to the story, we will read happily and are brought by the plot of the story. So that with reading the books, it reduce the stress and makes we are feel better.

In conclusion, reading books is good in many things like add insight and knowledge, improve the quality of memory, training focus and concentration, and reduce stress. Therefore, be person who likes reading book because it is very useful. Even someone has said "with reading, we can around the world." From the qoutes, it means that reading is something wonderful.