Between you and the reader, there may be only one reader

One day at noon, he chatted with a colleague, and when it came to daily consumption, he said that he had enrolled his wife in an accounting training class of 20,000 yuan. When I heard "twenty thousand," I was stunned and couldn't help but shout: Twenty thousand?! Just when I was about to say, "To have money is to be willful," he told me very seriously about the reasons for this.

"If you apply for a class of three or five thousand, it may be the most popular choice, but the motivation and effectiveness of learning may also be the most popular—money and time are spent, in exchange for which it can only be in vain." Because this little money is not enough to make a person or a family feel a sense of heartache and responsibility, and then fight for it. If you apply for a class that exceeds the normal price point by a lot, and make it a family or a person's psychological unbearable weight, then this will stimulate the motivation and sense of responsibility of personal learning. Finally, he added, "Now [she] has got an intermediate certificate and the tuition has been earned back." Looking at the calmness and confidence on his face, I fell into some kind of unknowable contemplation. At the same time, my mind was spinning with all these years of reading.

Personally, reading can be divided into two parts, one is paper book reading and the other is reader reading.

Reading paper books is the beginning of many people's reading, and it is also the enlightenment for many people to fall in love with reading. Reading on paper can give people a strong sense of accomplishment, especially for someone who is just starting to read. Watching the books you have finished reading gradually become equal to your own height, that invisible sense of pride will arise spontaneously, eager to publicize and show off all over the world (I used to be like this). But the thickness of paper books can also make you visually impair some books. For example, I have read through "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", "The Great Qin Empire", "Three Hundred Years of the Rise and Fall of the Tang Dynasty", and "Remembrance like Water Years", which is regarded as the Book of Heaven. These tomes may not be timid even for veteran readers, especially when they are brought together, and an invisible sense of oppression will come to you, which will prompt you to give up.

Compared with paper books, the characteristics of the reader are also quite obvious. Almost all the disadvantages of paper books have been transformed into the advantages of e-readers. For example, its volume is diverse (a variety of sizes are optional), the mass is lighter, the volume is large enough, the life is long enough (the iteration time is long), and it can be truly "one in hand in the world". In addition to this, it has a more notable feature, it is only suitable for reading or writing notes (reader with stroke function), of course, you can also use it to cover the bubble noodles. Its price is comparable to that of mainstream tablets, its performance and functionality are less than one-tenth of that of mainstream tablets, and most of them are black and white ink screen displays (I call this feature "art has a specialty").

In the early days when I first decided to read, my attitude towards reading was still ambiguous. Readable, readable. After all, I grew up hating the language, hating its recitation, hating its reading comprehension, and even more hating its 800-word composition. What really pushed me to stick to reading and become a hobby was the first e-reader I ever bought at a "huge sum" of money. After I bought it, many people expressed their incomprehension and opposition, thinking that it was the most useless expense, and that the money to buy it was enough to buy hundreds of paper books (and it was true). To this day, it is still one of the most useless devices for most people, even though it has been around for many years. But for me, it's not just a reader, it's a continuation of another hobby (electronics), and it's a whole new attempt at reading. It was from that point on that I developed an inexplicable sense of responsibility for reading, especially whenever I saw the device that the world complained about the most. Because I wanted to make it useful and wanted it to be great value for money.

It can be said that my real reading habits began with a reader, and it was also started from a reader. Because most of the time I read passively. From this point of view, this is completely analogous to what my colleague told me about his wife's process of learning accounting—not very loving, but doing all-out passive persistence, and then becoming an instinct and skill. Without the upfront rush to overpay, there may not be an incalculable return (I think reading is priceless). I never imagined that my reading would start with a reader, and I never thought that my occasional rise would become the most important cause of my life. It all started with the fact that I had one of the most "useless purchases" I ever had.

To this day, e-readers are still a niche device in niche markets. For most people, it is more like an expensive bubble noodle artifact, and it has lived up to expectations and been elected "the most useless product" for many years. Even so, I'd say that there may be only one reader between you and reading.