The Best Way to Choose A Book

A book can teachs us similar to the teachers. It's very necessary for our life. But how to choose a very good book is the most difficult thing. You can ask yourself : What is title? What is the purpose you want to find? What is kinds of books? And how is its content?

There are many strategies to follow:

* 1. Make a questionnaire to have clear purpose in your mind before choose the book:
- What kind of books do you like?
- What kinds of authors do you like?
- What your purpose?
- What are your interests?
2. Ask someone whom you trust to recommend a good book.
3. See if the library has computers. Use Internet services to search library. Use the search engine to find a certain book, books by a certain author, or anything as broad as just a certain genre.
4. Ask for help from the librarian the location of the books you're looking for.
5. When you caught the book you want, let's check it again to make sure if it is approriate.

* Use the word FIT to remember how to choose a book.

- F - Finding a book that looks interesting.

- I - Investigating to see whether the book is too hard or too easy

- T- Trying the book or Trading it in for another.

* You also can inquire from the following policy such as below:

1. Look at the cover. Read the title and look at the cover illustration.

2. Read the first page and use the five finger rule.

Five Finger Rule: If there are five or more words on the page that you don't know or cannot read, the book is probably not for you.

3. Skim through another books to have a comparison before making a decision.

4. Ask someone you trust for a recommendation.

5. Look at the size of the print.

7. Choose a book which has a theme, topic, or subject you are interested in.

Depending on your purpose and the content which that book given, you can make a decision to choose it and then it can help you more in enhancing your knowledge in the future.