{"id":6183,"date":"2022-07-02T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/how-to-read-a-guide-to-getting-more-out-of-the-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:36:08","slug":"how-to-read-a-guide-to-getting-more-out-of-the-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/how-to-read-a-guide-to-getting-more-out-of-the-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read: a guide to getting more out of the experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us can read, but is there a way to do it better? Faster? With more comprehension or even \u2026 joy?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/saved-for-later?CMP=cvau_sfl\">listen to our podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why read books, in this day and age? \u201cHaven\u2019t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement, in the last year or two or three, that novels belonged to the age of newspapers and are going the way of newspapers, only faster?\u201d wrote Jonathan Franzen, tongue firmly in cheek, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/06\/books\/review\/Franzen-t.html\">2010 essay<\/a>. The comment feels trenchant a decade later, in an era marked by a saturation of streaming platforms, short-form video, podcasts and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/12\/podcasts-hollywood-film-tv-adaptations-trend-deals-1234636040\/\">screen adaptations<\/a> of said podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of non-readers in Australia has grown in recent years: results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/australiareads.org.au\/nationalreadingsurvey\/\">2021 National Reading Survey<\/a> found that 25% of people reported not reading a single book in the previous year \u2013 up from 8% in a <a href=\"https:\/\/australiacouncil.gov.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/readers_survey_summary_final_v-592cf39be2c34-1.pdf\">2017 survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/jul\/03\/how-to-read-a-guide-to-getting-more-out-of-the-experience\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e07c0889705308bf78c09b92339f8d919e04549\/0_332_5120_3071\/master\/5120.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8b2d2cb3b7d52fbcde87ccdf235a038\" title=\"How to read: a guide to getting more out of the experience\" \/>Most of us can read, but is there a way to do it better? Faster? With more comprehension or even \u2026 joy?<\/p>\n<p>Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast<\/p>\n<p>Why read books, in this day and age? \u201cHaven\u2019t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement, in the last year or two or three, that novels belonged to the age of newspapers and are going the way of newspapers, only faster?\u201d wrote Jonathan Franzen, tongue firmly in cheek, in a 2010 essay. The comment feels trenchant a decade later, in an era marked by a saturation of streaming platforms, short-form video, podcasts and screen adaptations of said podcasts.<br \/>\nThe proportion of non-readers in Australia has grown in recent years: results of the 2021 National Reading Survey found that 25% of people reported not reading a single book in the previous year \u2013 up from 8% in a 2017 survey. 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Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Why read books, in this day and age? \u201cHaven\u2019t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement, in the last &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/how-to-read-a-guide-to-getting-more-out-of-the-experience\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to read: a guide to getting more out of the experience<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}