BookJive

Reading can be fun, but it can greatly eat all your time if your speed is not as fast as you’d like it to be. Below are few tips to help you improve your reading speed.

1. Determine if the subject of the material is what interests you. It usually takes more time to comprehend books which are out of our interests.
2. Preview. Look at the material you’re going to read from the title, chapter titles, subtitles, introduction and other relevant materials to get a clear view of the subject.
3. Adjust your reading speed. Slow down when you feel the need to comprehend more. Speed up in sections you already know.
4. Take several words in the line of text at one time instead musing on each word.
5. Focus on the key words in the sentences. reading conjunctions, prepositions, or articles eats a lot of reading time.
6. Use a pacer. A pacer like a pen or your finger helps you keep track of what you are reading
7. Share what you’ve read; it will help you internalize the thought better.
8. Determine a reading schedule that works for you.
9. Find a reading spot free from interruptions or distractions.
10. Keep on reading.  As they say, “Practice makes perfect.”

Try all these tips and experience more fun in reading.

The book of Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, turns 50. According to Amazon.com’s bestsellers list, the book is one of the top 500 best sellers – note: that’s despite the criticisms received.

The 1200-page book continues to capture the hearts of CEOs. John Allison, the chief executive of BB&T says the book offers ideas of principles that apply to business and life in general. Both Mark Cuban, the owner of Dallas Mavericks and John P. Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods considered Ayn Rand a great influence to their success. Even the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan admires Ayn Rand.

Who really is Ayn Rand? She’s the author whose fiction and non-fiction works emphasizes her philosophy: Objectivism.

Time will come our Bible, Koran, or other religious texts will become worn or unusable. Do you know how to dispose them properly? The following info came from The Fayetteville Observer September 21, 2007 issue, pages 1E and 2E. Thanks for the info, Fayetteville people!

Jewish Tradition:

According to Rabbi Josef Lavanon of Fayetteville’s Beth Israel synagogue, all damaged or unreadable Jewish sacred texts, including any book that contains the name of God, should be buried, not burned. All materials containing God’s names, three or more words of a biblical verse, written with the intent to quote the verse; all holy objects including but not limited to Torah scrolls and book, their mantles and sashes and dust jackets, slip covers or other parts. The materials are collected then buried together.

Islamic tradition

According to Abdul Haneef, Imam of Fayetteville’s Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid mosque, the sanctity of the holy book remains even if the book is damaged. Thus, burial, not burning, is the prescribed ceremony. Tradition calls that all unusable texts be wrapped in clean linen as its burial shroud. Another way is to wrap the book in cloth, attached it to a weight and respectfully place it in a body of moving water.

Christian tradition

There is no fixed way to dispose unusable Bibles. Some rebound the Bible and send them overseas to churches in Africa; some simply removed them and started over. However, “a Bible that cannot be used may be burned. Once the Bible is burned, the ashes are to be buried”, says Terry Jackson of Raleigh.

Lutheran tradition buries the Bible, allowing the nature to reclaim its pages while some Episcopal churches offer memorial services for unusable Bibles.