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The benefits of reading for pleasure (infographic)
Sheer pleasure is not the only good thing about spending free time with books.
Reading can reduce stress by 68%, and it only takes 6 minutes to achieve that. Interested in finding out other benefits of reading for pleasure?
Check out an interesting infographic created by Lenny Dutton, a technology teacher and digital librarian, running An Excited Educator blog.
By reading for pleasure you’ll not only develop personally, and become a better person. It’s also good for educational purposes, especially when we manage to get kids to love reading books.
Supporting a child’s love for reading is one of the best things you can do for them. By giving them this gift you support both their educational and emotional needs.
Lenny Dutton created this infographic using Pikochart, a popular online infographic creator. It’s the single most useful tool to turn interesting data into an amazing, professionally looking visual. Many libraries use Pikochart to promote their services to communities.
Click or tap on the image below to enlarge it. On Pikochart you can also turn on a presentation mode of the infographic.
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About Ola Kowalczyk
As a frequent visitor of her favorite local library, Ola is particularly interested in how books and libraries evolve in the digital age. Ebooks, print, audiobooks – for her, all books are equal.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Hunger Games Prequel
by Suzanne Collins
Part 1: The Mentor
Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again. But this was not that day. He needed to eat a large bowl of the anemic stuff, and drink every drop of broth, to prevent his stomach from growling during the reaping ceremony. It was one of a long list of precautions he took to mask the fact that his family, despite residing in the penthouse of the Capitol’s most opulent apartment building, was as poor as district scum. That at eighteen, the heir to the once-great house of Snow had nothing to live on but his wits.
His shirt for the reaping was worrying him. He had an acceptable pair of dark dress pants bought on the black market last year, but the shirt was what people looked at. Fortunately, the Academy provided the uniforms it required for daily use. For today’s ceremony, however, students were instructed to be dressed fashionably but with the solemnity the occasion dictated. Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin’s cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still, he couldn’t expect miracles.
The shirt they’d dug from the back of the wardrobe—his father’s, from better days—was stained and yellowed with age, half the buttons missing, a cigarette burn on one cuff. Too damaged to sell in even the worst of times, and this was to be his reaping shirt? This morning he had gone to her room at daybreak, only to find both his cousin and the shirt missing. Not a good sign. Had Tigris given up on the old thing and braved the black market in some last-ditch effort to find him proper clothing? And what on earth would she possess worth trading for it? Only one thing—herself—and the house of Snow had not yet fallen that far. Or was it falling now as he salted the cabbage?
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Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read.
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