Are You Readers, What Level are You?

Henny Rahmawati

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Almost all readers label books as their “best friends.” As best friends, books will always be ready to help the readers. As an illustration, whenever the readers want to get information on some relevant topics, they only need to read particular books. Besides, books can also do many things for the readers—entertaining, educating, giving information, and etc—that meet with their needs. Moreover, books never complain to the readers on how the readers behave toward them. Though the readers do not regard the books as they are, such as putting the books on some improper places and leaving the books behind soon after they do not need those books, the books will still faithfully provide advantages for the readers. There are a lot of books which the readers can read. Different books, of course, attract different level of readers. Therefore, here, I will classify four kinds of readers namely elderly, adult, teen, and child readers.

 The first category is the elderly readers. In this case, based on my observation, they tend to read holy books more frequently than other readers. For they are old, most of them do not have a good sight so that they may use eyeglasses to relieve them of some hardships during reading. The elderly readers mostly read slowly but surely from the beginning until the end. For them, the holy books are the only books which can still interest them in that very age; other kinds of books may remain not interesting anymore. It is because they consider that they will face death so they must come closer to God as their saving account in the hereafter.

Besides what I just explained previously, there are some readers that we often call as ‘adult readers.’ The readers tend to read some serious books related to their careers such as politics books for the government staffs, economics books for the businessmen, pedagogy for the educational staffs, and etc. Besides, adult women particularly house wives, they have a tendency to read books about children, cuisines, and women. The adult readers prefer skimming and scanning to reading word by word or careful reading for most of them are busy people. Moreover, they do not concern on the books’ appearance anymore but they concern more on their contents if they meet with their needs. For them, reading books is aimed to gain essential information related to their careers. Accordingly, it enables them to be more professional in the workplaces.

The next category is the teen readers. In this category, readers are interesting with the book about puberty, marriage, zodiac, cosmetics, and many more. They are likely to skim and scan the significant information from those books. The readers here still concern with the appearance of the books such as the covers and the illustration as well as the contents. Basically, by reading those books they are looking for the common things they undergo during puberty and they are anxious to know more about marriage before they come to that condition. While zodiac sections are very interesting for them for they can predict their future fortune and anticipate their misfortunes in the future.

The last category is the child readers. They tend to read fairy tales, legends, fables, short stories and etc.  They are likely to read interesting book in terms of the cover and the illustration of the books. If those two cases attract them, they will read the books regardless the contents of those books. The children may read those books randomly from the beginning to the end or vice versa. They may stop reading one chapter before it is not done yet and move to another chapter that is more attractive for them. Mainly, they do reading those books just for fun.

   In short, based on what we just explained in the above, readers may vary—elderly, adult, teen and child readers. The readers, then, tend to read books which can draw their interests. This enables the readers to deal with the proper books based on their levels. So, which level do you belong to?