Do your parents or teachers tell you to read more? A survey by a Taiwan-based magazine showed that kids in Taiwan spend 4.4 hours a week reading, but they spend more time surfing the Internet.
爸媽有叫你多閱讀嗎？國內一家雜誌社最近調查指出，臺灣兒童每週花4.4小時閱讀，少於上網的時間。
黃金建議：每日閱讀30分鐘
In Australia, adults are also worried their kids aren’t reading enough. While Taiwanese kids read about 9.2 books per year, Australian children read fewer than 12. That may be a little more than Taiwan, but experts say that reading 30 minutes a day would be even better.
Reading books is a great way to help your vocabulary grow. Learning new words when they appear in a book is easier than just memorizing what a word means.
Watching a video is fun, but your brain doesn’t need to work. When you read, your mind makes pictures for you. Using your imagination is fun and good for your brain.
You can learn a lot from a book. The vocabulary and facts you get from reading can help you in class. It could also help you finish your homework more quickly!
The more you read, the better you will get. Reading isn’t a race, but practicing makes you faster and better at understanding.
你讀得越多，收穫也會越多。雖然閱讀不是競賽，但只要「勤」讀，你對書本內容會理解的更快、更多。
新嘗試：用閱讀取代回家作業
Is reading more important than doing homework? 31 elementary schools in Florida, USA think that it is. That’s why they have stopped giving out regular homework. Instead, teachers ask their students to read for 20 minutes every night. The children can choose any book they like.
根據《MOTHERBOARD》報導，這1937年的幅壁畫名為《品欽先生與移居春田市》（Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield），描繪麻州春田市的開墾先驅、英國殖民官員兼皮草商人品欽（William Pynchon），被美洲原住民包圍的畫面。布魯凱克教授對此表示，「原住民手中的黑色長方形物品與現代智慧型手機極為相似，無論拿的方式或專注的神韻，都像得可怕！」
陰謀論家「大嘴巴」（StillSpeakingOut）2014年公佈一支影片，宣稱找到了時空旅行的「證據」，發現在距今2000多年的古希臘浮雕「在王座上的女人與僕人」（Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant）裡，出現代筆電的身影。但有專家出面表示，這個浮雕中類似筆電的物體，只是個小箱子。
