How to Develop Reading Habit?

To start developing reading you need a strong reason to do so. First check Why you should start reading, the benefits of reading and then start with these steps.


Why to Read? Have plenty of reasons, either you are inspired by ideal or want to gain enrich your knowledge. The purpose is start to read more and more without getting bored.

To get into steps, let's just try to figure out why few people are passionate about reading, ever wondered? So the answer is simple and straight, passion and interest develops only when you enjoy the thing like you might like bing watching or love sports, eventually reason is you enjoy these activities. Apply the same rule here start with light and funny context, the moment you start to enjoy, then it won't require extra efforts to read. 

Even after you start to enjoy, making habit is still a difficult part to approach. Here are the few tips to improve reading.

1) Start Small - 

For beginners reading seems so boring and dull. They often feel reading as a workload. To develop reading you should start reading with the article a day or with at least target of reading 10-20 pages a day.

When you repeat the same activity daily, it becomes a habit. Within a few weeks, you will not feel reading as a burden. Now increase the hours and number of pages consistently.

Start small and build momentum over time.

2)Follow chronology 

Articles - Children book - Short Story - Novella - Novel and other books 

Starting is a very basic thing, increasing goals is the next step towards habit. You can follow the above chronology to increase the content you are reading.

This series not only promote the content increment but also this will let us understand the book thoroughly.
Simple Articles with very few variations in vocabulary, then short stories with little increase in new terms. Then novella, which is around 70-80 pages with better stories and theme, this will prepare you for the upcoming novels you are reading.

To read a book you need a vocabulary base, this series will let you have fundamental terms and phrases. Even you start with Quora and Medium for short articles.

3) Be Consistent - 

Reading is not a One Day Wonder, you need to work daily, you have to maintain the charm of the reading.

Usually, people read books either they are passionate or they want to be more knowledgeable through books. Obviously, you are not passionate about reading that's why you are here. You can transform yourself from a casual reader to a passionate one, just pick more interesting and thrilling books.

4) Choose interesting books- 

To develop a reading habit you need develop interest in reading, increase interest in books, interest in stories. This can only happen when you start to involve yourself with book, just like movies you should associate yourself with protagonist. You should develop a emotion over character and story. Then only truly read and understand the book.

Or the other way to intresr yourself is to choose wisely  , which gener interest you and which are not of your kind. Beginner should start with soft and simple love stories with deep emotional connection, like go to Fault in our star or Thousand Splendid Sun.

Then you should slowly move towards other genre, like thriller, action, mystery, crime and others. Slow and steady movements will let you accept the reading as daily routine.

5)Highlight - 

When you are reading along with a book with multiple characters and a lot of twists and turn you need to pictures each and every part, to have a better insight you can highlight the points and revisit these points to have a better understanding.

Highlight lines, paras, learnings, and sayings, so as a review you will have something. This will definitely let summarise the whole story and message of the book.

For better, go with fictional books with a definite plot and theme.


And the best way to move forward is, find someone who can listen your views on books, who can listen and argue with the fact you just read. In this you will know what you read and what is summary of book. And also the purpose of book.


Even after you start to enjoy, making habit is still a difficult part to approach. Here are the few tips to improve reading.