If you have difficulty with books, please do not think that this is your personal misfortune. It is a matter of concern for all people. Lenin's letters are full of requests to relatives and friends: "Please, send such and such books." People go to other cities for books. People spend their holidays going to Moscow and sitting in the library for a few weeks. But even in the Lenin Library with its millions of books, every now and then they send a "refusal" - a piece of paper with an explanation that the necessary book is not available or someone else is reading it. People hunt for books, stand in line, beg for them, lure them out. Lomonosov tricked out his first two books, this is reported in his earliest biography. Books were bought at crazy prices, at exorbitant prices. Some people spend almost their entire salary on books, keeping only a pittance for themselves, and these are not fanatics, not collectors, they are ordinary educated people.

It is difficult to live without your own books. Sukhomlinsky said that by the end of the tenth grade, everyone should have about four hundred books of their own at home. If you don't have your own book, you can't suddenly, when the need comes, when an acute desire flares up, to read it. You read your book differently, it is closer to you, you are not in a hurry, you are not afraid that the book will go away — and her world will irrevocably go with it. Collecting books is the job of the fathers. Fathers should leave libraries of books to their children. This is their obligatory duty to children. It is possible that your father lived a difficult life and could not collect even a small library - well, you can't blame your father for anything, it's not noble. But it's time to gradually lay the foundation of the family library - for yourself, for your children, for grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This, I repeat, is the duty of every person, especially every man. Collecting and selecting books is a purely masculine business, because it requires courage, severity, and certainty of taste.

When they go to the library, they usually use a subscription — they take books home. Meanwhile, many libraries have very good reading rooms. For some inexplicable reason, a book in the hall, borrowed for an hour, is more "yours" than one taken home. In the library, you read more concentrated; In the library, you can take one, another, a third, find, leaf through them, hold them in your hands. Sometimes it is enough to hold a book for a few minutes to get some idea about it, although there are also mistakes. In the library, you don't just read, you live in the world of books; they are captivating, they are not so silent. You can read at home, or you can do something else. You read in the library. Everything is beautiful there, especially the silence. Nowhere is there such silence as in the library, with the rustle of pages being flipped over, with a quiet conversation at the checkout. There is a lively silence in the library. It is not peace, but a slight excitement, a solemn mood. And the very way to spend time in the library is one of the best ways. Many do not know where to go in the evening. How, where? Yes, to the library, to the reading room! There you will find friends among the regulars, there you will feel like a person. And when you leave the library, you are pleasantly tired, even a little dizzy.

This is out of habit.

It does not tell about many secrets of using the library, about working with the catalog, for example. Those who go to the library regularly will recognize them themselves and develop their own methods of searching for and exploring the book. And those who do not go to the library do not need it.

If you do your homework in the morning, before school, and spend an hour or two in the reading room during the day, you can get a fairly good education by the end of school.

Experiments on yourself

First, for those who do not like to read: let's look for a key book! That is, the first book that is interesting to us, whatever it may be.

How to find it?

The easiest way is to ask your friends, beg them for an interesting book. You can also say honestly in the library: "You know, I have never read with pleasure in my life... Please give me such a book so as not to tear myself away."

Perhaps the first attempt will be unsuccessful. It's not scary! Just as there are many boring people among people, you can't make friends with everyone, so there are many boring books (for us), and if we haven't "made friends" with one book, let's not think that all the others are boring either. Let's look for our key!

But let's set ourselves a goal: to read every day, at least for an hour, at least half an hour. There is an assumption that someone who spends at least half an hour reading a book every day for two or three weeks, without missing, will definitely love reading. However, this assumption, like many others, requires experimental verification. Please tell us about the results of your experiment: how many days did you continue it? Did you enjoy reading?

If you liked it, if you are already a reader, then let's continue the experiments.