Reflect of Reading Habits

Reading is an activity that we do without realizing it. However, acquiring a reading habit is something else. I remember that when I was young, reading was an effort and it was not an attractive activity. However, this has changed over time.

My first years in school, reading was a must. We took turns reading the same reading or the same book. And it is true that sometimes it was fun, but being a child and reading out of obligation took away pleasure.

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Even so, I clearly remember how my father sat next to me when I was eight or nine years old and sometimes he read a children's book with me and sometimes he read his own book at the same time that I read mine.

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Later I discovered that if I chose the genre of the book correctly, I liked to read anywhere. I remember taking a book to the beach, on a trip, or if I had to wait at the dentist. Reading began to be fascinating to me.

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And now that I am an adult, I can safely say that I love reading even though I don't have as much time as I would like. In addition, now I read almost more in digital format than in print books, for the convenience of being able to have hundreds of books in a single device.

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Fortunately nowadays we have the opportunity to choose different types of readings, different types of texts, books, magazines, etc. depending on whether we read in our own language or in a foreign language.

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