Finding it hard to keep reading books? Here’s 7 tips to overcome it!

So, how to beat the rock of “saved hours” by doing something productive yet beneficial?

Online book clubs and kindle ebooks are the best solutions that enhance your brain with knowledge and information. In this fast-paced chaos, it's quite hard to find calm and peace to read the book you love. You might have heard many people murmuring constantly:

Are you facing the same problem?

If so, we’ve found something to help you out. Here, we are going to cover few tips that will help you cultivate your reading habit and get lost in a book for a while. So, let’s get started.

When did you enjoy reading the most? Was it early morning before everyone wakes up or in the late evening?

When did you enjoy endless reading sessions? Was it mid-week, weekend, or the beginning of the week?

Where do you find calm while reading? Was it a bedroom, backyard, or garden? Do you enjoy reading with a piping cup of coffee, a lip-smacking sandwich, or a refreshing green tea?

All you can do is just find an ideal place and time as close as possible and try to include them in your new reading regime.

One of the disadvantages of being shut in the house is unable to commute. But if your daily commute time to the office is between 30-50 minutes, commit the same traveling time to the office in reading. Though this idea may seem invalid for some, reading a book in the first place is an amazing start to the day. You will feel refreshed and stress-free.

One of the biggest advantages of isolation is the extra time you get to spend more time with your friends and family. No plans today? FaceTime your friends. No commuting to the office? Call your mother. But when you decide to invest your isolated time in reading, it's better to keep your phone away. Make sure your phone does not distract you with constant WhatsApp chats, colleagues' phone calls, and your favorite “FRIENDS” series notification.

Certain books stop you from reading while there are books that you’d want to finish as early as possible. So, it’s better to combine two digital formats to make sure you don’t miss out on reading.

If you have a Kindle e-book subscription, you might be aware of the Whispersync for Voice feature. You can add an audiobook companion and with your kindle app, you can seamlessly switch between reading and listening to its audiobook version. You can start reading a book in the morning, listen to it while dropping kids to school, and read again at night before you sleep. Sounds convenient, isn’t it!

If you find keeping a relationship with your books hard, try subscribing to e-books online. It would act as your motivational tool to help you keep reading each day. Unlimited Kindle e-books or Scribd are a few of the best platforms that give you unlimited access to millions of books across categories.

What’s more? These digital books offer much more than ebooks – graphic novels, audiobooks, comic books, popular magazines, and what not! This will make you glued to open your app and read something that refreshes and interests you.

If you’re looking for a set of new reads, a virtual book club is a chance for people to gather and discuss their recent reads. Apart from reading books, it allows you to connect with like-minded people, participate in discussions and quizzes while keeping your current momentum going.

Lockdown has forced us to stay indoors with activities performed in one corner of the house. Have you taken those Instagram 21 days fitness challenges to exercise 10 minutes a day?

If those 10 minutes of workouts can be a part of your daily regime, then why not reading? Just add those 10 minutes of reading slot in your workout routine and see the wonders.

Cultivating a reading habit isn’t about investing a lot of time and effort, it’s more about following a daily routine to read books that calms your mind and rejuvenates you. Follow the above tips and give yourself 20 days reading challenge to cultivate a consistent reading habit.

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