Planning to build a readers community
By: Abishek Babu
Tags: Reading, Community, Book Recommendations, Books, Write

I ain’t guilty of solving world problems, i’m happy solving minute problems which i faced and helping others on the same.

I’ve been an ardent book reader for a while, if you asked me “Do you read books?” 4 years back, i’d have took a step back from you and would have had laughed at you. Cause i happen to be a kid who hates reading books, i was forced to read textbooks at school when i was a kid. That kind of biased environment made me hate books, i never knew there are various types of books till i finished 10th grade. All i knew was a book consist series of pages with thousands of words and sentences connected with each other. What i didn’t realise was the power of those sentences and how it could change once lifestyle as a whole.

Just like how my physics teacher made me hate physics and math teacher did the same, all teacher combined made me hate books.

I used to be the dumb kid when we go to library pick out the books that have most pictures on it and look at all of those pictures till the period gets over. I never understood those people who take up fiction books and read those sentences to understand a story. I literally laughed at them all for wasting their time.

Well, it’s really funny how the turn tables now. Things have changed way opposite, back then i should have been the dumbest stupidest kid of all but now, oh boy. Let me explain.

I started reading during my 2nd semester of my college, i reach my college by college transport. It’d take about 45mins to reach the campus and my college seems to be so best of all other college in education that they don’t even allow students to use their phone in college.

Being a quite “good-boy” kid, i keep my phone at home when i go to college. So this bus journey both early morning and evening started to get so boring. I pretty much slept most of the journey having nothing to do.

But one day, when i got my first cheque(5000INR) from my first so-called-business(it’s photography related stuff with my DSLR i used to do all stupid stuff you can ever imagine, it failed terribly), i invested in 2 things.

I bought a full set raspberry pi kit which comes with a case and a box One book, only because i had money left and there is nothing i can buy with that 280Rs, so i added this book in my cart as well.

i remember that i didn’t even touch the book for a week after buying it, one day i thought why not try reading this thing on the way to college, after all i bought it.

So i slid it in my college bag as well and i took this book and started reading the contents page as the driver was progressing to the college.

Now, damn. For the first time in my college life, that one bus journey went like a flip, i felt it like a time traveller.

I started reading the book heads down and the moment i raise my head we reached college, this felt so cool. I started reading all day both the trips on a single day. It took exactly like 40 days(i didn’t read over weekends) to finish that book.

It really did a thing on me i can say, i def felt so damn wise than all the kids. I realised how stupid i was to ignore such a powerful thing in this universe and mocking my friends in school who subscribe for scholastic.

I loved reading from that day and i never stopped it till now and i will never.

Right after finishing reading that book, i ordered few more famous books like this and this.

Looking back at the past, one thing i understood very well.

I started reading, yes. I made my life and leisure time more productive, yes.

But no one told me the way to read a book which i learnt 18 months after started reading books.

Reading books is really a art, it’s like a direct conversation you have with the author and the author takes you places just with a mixture of words.

Now there are other things which i learnt after 2 years of reading and it really made my reading game much much better, you should see my book shelf it’s kinda like a fkin library.