Most of my previous articles
were written in local language (Bahasa Indonesia), might be this is my first
articles in English. I realized that English was so important in my daily work
and activities, so I would like to keep practicing by always write this article
and another articles in the future in English.
Firstly, I would like to tell
about one of my hobby which is reading a lot of books. When I was kid, I really
want to read a lot of book, but I have limitation in money at that time. I don’t
even have spare money to buy a book because most of my money I have use it for food and transportation to go home. Once I got my first job on 2010, and I
get my first salary, I used to buy at least 2-3 books every month to get back
my hobby that I cannot get when I was kid.
Book that I have read were
vary from history, biography, motivation, and business, but the price to buy a
book here is not cheap , you can see the average for
one good book is between 150.000 – 200.000 rupiah, and my first job salary was
only about 3.500.000 per month, so I need to be smart when I read a book, I mean
I will not finish one book just in one day. I read it slowly just to get it deeply
to my brain and I can finish 3 books in a month.
Time by time then I realized
in one of my bedroom that the books were fill up the rooms quickly, it is on
one side of the room with the length about 4 meter and height is about two
meter. Oh, I will full this room so quickly by a lot of my books collection.
But then technologies have progress so rapidly which is helping me so much not
to get my bedroom full. Luckily, now the
trend is changing from conventional book to digital book or we used to call it e-book.
A lot of ways to get e-book on
this time, some of the way is I downloaded apps with name ipusnas. This is one
of the platform supported by the government to make a lot of Indonesian can
read books easily without having difficulties by buying it on the book store
that sometime the price is quite expensive. Seriously, what you can do is just
downloaded the apps, register, and you can search the books you want and downloaded
and then finally read it for free.
But not all the book you can
find on Ipusnas, especially for the new book, I can make sure you will not find it,
might be at least book from 6 months ago then you can get it from here. For me this app is
helping a lot, sometime if you go to one of the famous book store and the book
you want was display on the rack, I used to search it on this app and found it,
then I just downloaded for free.
There are some advantages by reading e-book. If you buy the conventional
book, you will spend about 200.000 rupiah. but with this e-book, you don't have to spend any money. Another thing, if you buy the conventional book, not
only you can finish the book just in 2 days, but also the book then again will
fill up bedroom and one day I have to donate the book or give it to someone
else. With e-book is really simple, after you read it and got all the information,
then you can return and end of story. No need to spare some space
anymore for your book.
The only disadvantage, Ipusnas only give
me books with local language (Bahasa Indonesia). For me reading only Bahasa Indonesia
books is not enough, every week at least I need to finish reading one book with
English. To get this target achieved, I downloaded the book using PDF Drive.
Most of the book I want I can get it from this website, and for sure the book
is in English, so this could give me practice about reading a lot of word in
English and the most important thing is give me so many new vocabulary as I
used to open digital translator in my phone whenever I found the new word I don’t
understand and I read it at least three times to be remember easily and I would
not forget.
I just realized that wrote
this articles quite long as I really enjoy reading and writing. I hope this
article will help the reader that have the same hobby as me to read a lot of
book and you still can get the information you need without spending so much money and
no need to save a space to store it.
I will keep writing another
articles in English to improve my skill in writing, and for sure will be another
interesting story. :)
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