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Benefits Of Reading Books: How Reading Greatly Enhances Your Life

July 21, 2011 By 1 Comment

There are many benefits of reading books. Unfortunately, in this day and age, not a lot of people take the time to read them anymore.

When was the last time you pick something up? Blame your answer on technology if you must, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re missing out on a lot of wonderful benefits!

Read on to learn the various benefits of reading books!

Obviously, reading books provides you with new knowledge. Whenever you read something, you learn new information that you otherwise would not have known.

It can be a fact about history or a theory you did not know existed. If you want to learn new words in particular, reading books is a great way to enrich your vocabulary.

Reading also keeps your mind in good condition. Similar to solving puzzles, reading books allows your mind to practice its processing skills.

Going without books for too long will turn your mind to mush. I’m not kidding! Why do you think they call television the boob tube?

One of the primary benefits of reading books is its ability to develop your critical thinking skills. Reading mystery novels, for example, sharpens your mind. Whenever you are faced with a similar problem in real life, your mind is now able to put its mystery-solving prowess to a test.

There’s nothing quite like reading books to help you become a better conversationalist. Seeing how words are used (and how sentences are structured) with your own eyes helps you commit the information to memory better than by listening to a teacher discuss the points in class.

One of the great benefits of reading books is that the information in it can be accessed over and over again. When you’re following a recipe, for example, reading a cookbook allows you the luxury of reviewing the procedures and the ingredients whenever you need to.

Unless you have a photographic memory, following a recipe from a cooking show will be difficult. Don’t even think about writing the information down because you will probably only lose the paper you wrote down on sooner or later.

These are just some of the wonderful benefits of reading books. Why don’t you drop by the bookstore or library and pick a book up? If you can’t even go outside, you can download free ebooks online and read them on your computer. That way, you can see how advantageous reading can be for yourself!

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Five Must Read Books for the Artistic Soul

July 21, 2011 By 1 Comment

The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri

Written over a hundred years ago, this book never fails to hit on some spiritual truths as far as any art practice—but it is especially geared toward painting.  Henri was a legendary teacher in New York’s Art Student’s League, a free academy open to anyone—including women and laborers— interested in studying art, which is still in operation today.  Much of this open enthusiasm and sense of intellectual equality is communicated in this book, a collection of comments made by Henri while in the act of teaching.  Truly one of the top most inspiring books an artist will ever read.

Letters to Theo, by Vincent Van Gogh

The collected editors of the famed artist and famously tortured soul, Vincent Van Gogh, to his brother, friend and financial backer, Theo.  To be read not only as a glimpse into an artist’s life and way of thinking, but also for the beauty of Van Gogh’s language and vision of the world.  The way he thinks of apples, color and day-to-day people sticks with you long after you first read the book.

Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland

A slim little volume with a scary title that really speaks to the heart of the matter of what it is like to be an artist working in today’s world.  Written by two working visual artists, it grapples with what artists deal with psychologically when they sit down at their easels or typewriters.  A world where it has been pronounced more than once that, “art is dead,” where there is no longer very much by way of external award offered to those who are true to their own voice.  An underground artist’s classic and must read for anybody who has ever doubted, or given up at any point.

The Courage to Create, by Rollo May

Wise, hopeful—sort of the Barack Obama of humanistic psychologists—Rollo May never fails to impress with ideas that will truly expand your ideas about what it is to be human and creative.  A taste:  “Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt,” and “America is among the most violent of the so-called civilized nations….  An important cause of this is the influence of that frontier brutality of which we are heirs.  We need a new find of physical courage that will neither run rampant in violence nor require our assertion of ego-centric power over other people.”  He makes the argument that imagination and creativity are THE reasons for our existence, rather than just ‘niceties,’ and something less important to mainstream life.  Not enough good things can be said about this book.

The Artist’s Way Workbook, by Julia Cameron

A guided tour through getting your artistic mojo back, basically, with designated tasks and check-in exercises that offer an actual program that you give yourself.   Cameron lauds the idea of journal writing, personal exploration, and expansion of your mental horizons to unblock and become open to your own creativity.  The best thing about it is that is amazingly non-judgmental in the way it is written, and the exercises are almost childlike in conception, which makes it all the more approachable and doable.

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How to Read Books Online

July 21, 2011 By 2 Comments

Article by Fernando Coelhos

If you know where to look, you can find a wide variety of ways to read books online for free without breaking or bending any laws– even recent bestsellers!

Reading books online is a great way to catch up on your reading, as long as you know where to look. Many books are available on the internet in a variety of formats. There are free (open source) programs available to get your reading material changed into a format you can use, if it happens to end up posted in a format you can’t read.

How Ebooks Work– Software, Formats, and DRM You will find books for sale and for free in a wide variety of formats online. If you are looking for some free reading material, knowing what to do with the books you find is an important step toward reading your book. Here are many common ways you will find books available online, so you know what you’re looking at when you find it.

Webpages/HTML files (ebook.html/ebook.htm)

Many free books come as simple webpages, formatted with basic HTML. To save an e-book formatted as HTML, you can right click and “save as” or use the file menu to “save page as” whatever comes up on the autocomplete. Most books to read online are presented in HTML, but the format will work from your web browser just as well offline as it will when you’re connected.

Plain Text Books (ebook.txt)

Some of the places you go to download free books online will offer you plain text files. When you click on the link, it will load right into your browser window, probably with a rather old looking font and a lack of complex formatting. To save a text ebook, right click on the link that takes you to the book and select “save as…” You can save it under whatever name it comes up under, and read it with any basic text editor you have, probably even notepad.

Popular E-book Specific Formats That Might Have DRM

Adobe EPUB (ebook.epub). This format is growing in popularity among some ebook stores and many libraries. If you find a free DRM’d EPUB book you’d like to read, you can download software from Adobe’s website to access your book. Lots of reader software and hardware supports non DRM’d EPUB files, making them easy to access. Warning: I’ve heard many of the ebooks available at Barnes and Noble’s new ebook store for the Nook are using a format called “EPUB” that won’t work with anything other than a Nook.

Amazon Kindle Format (ebook.azw/ebook.mobi). If you find one of these you’d like to read that is available for free, you can download a program on Amazon’s website to allow it to show on your computer if you don’t have a Kindle. The Kindle’s DRM format (AZW) is just like the mobipocket format with a few small changes. Many ebook files can be easily converted to MOBI to use with a Kindle.

Adobe EPUB (ebook.epub). This format is growing in popularity among some ebook stores and many libraries. If you find a free DRM’d EPUB book you’d like to read, you can download software from Adobe’s website to access your book. Lots of reader software and hardware supports non DRM’d EPUB files, making them easy to access. Warning: I’ve heard many of the ebooks available at Barnes and Noble’s new ebook store for the Nook are using a format called “EPUB” that won’t work with anything other than a Nook.

Palm Ereader (ebook.pdb). Ereader is a DRM ebook format that has a wide range of readers available for many mobile devices, from ipods to PDAs and phones. While there are many ebooks sold in ereader format in various stores, there aren’t many dedicated e-book readers that support ereader format because Palm requires the devices that support ereader to only support ereader DRM.

Adobe PDF (ebook.pdf). PDF files are usually saved as images, unfortunately, which makes them a little bit difficult to manage or convert if you don’t have a good setup for reading PDFs. Adobe Digital Editions (linked above) will work for managing DRM’d PDF files.

There are many other ebook formats out there, I’m just trying to cover some of the most popular. If you notice an ebook format that you feel is used widely enough to be included in my list, feel free to leave me a note in the comments.

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