{"id":106789,"date":"2015-09-04T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/?p=106789"},"modified":"2022-05-03T07:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:01:34","slug":"benefits-reading-pleasure-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/benefits-reading-pleasure-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of reading for pleasure (infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-106793\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure-540x229.jpg?resize=540%2C229\" alt=\"What can you do to support reading for pleasure\" width=\"540\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?resize=540%2C229&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?resize=220%2C93&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?resize=332%2C141&amp;ssl=1 332w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?resize=160%2C68&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?resize=840%2C357&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/What-can-you-do-to-support-reading-for-pleasure.jpg?w=1498&amp;ssl=1 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"lead\"><strong>Sheer pleasure is not the only good thing about spending free time with books.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Reading can reduce stress\u00a0by 68%, and it only takes 6 minutes to achieve that.\u00a0Interested in finding out other benefits of reading for pleasure?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sideinfo\"><strong>See also:<\/strong><br \/>\n[ef-archive number=2 tag=&#8221;lists&#8221; ]<\/div>\n<p>Check out an\u00a0interesting infographic created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excitededucator.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lenny Dutton<\/a>, a\u00a0technology teacher and digital librarian, running An Excited Educator blog.<\/p>\n<p>By reading for pleasure you&#8217;ll not only develop personally, and become a better person. It&#8217;s also good for educational purposes, especially when we manage to get kids to love reading books.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supporting a child&#8217;s love for reading is one of the best things you can do for them. By giving them this gift you support both their educational and emotional needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lenny Dutton\u00a0created this infographic using <a href=\"http:\/\/piktochart.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pikochart<\/a>, a popular online infographic creator.\u00a0It&#8217;s the single most useful tool to turn interesting data into an amazing, professionally looking visual.\u00a0Many libraries use Pikochart\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/individual-libraries-infographics\/\" >promote their services to communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click or tap on the image below to enlarge it.\u00a0On Pikochart you\u00a0can also turn on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/magic.piktochart.com\/output\/6154709-reading-for-pleasure\" rel=\"nofollow\">a presentation mode of the infographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/benefits-reading-pleasure-infographic\/the-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-wide wp-image-106790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic-840x2984.jpg?resize=540%2C1918\" alt=\"The benefits of reading for pleasure #infographic\" width=\"540\" height=\"1918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?resize=220%2C782&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?resize=540%2C1918&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?resize=332%2C1179&amp;ssl=1 332w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?resize=45%2C160&amp;ssl=1 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More infographics:<\/p>\n<p>[ef-archive number=5 tag=&#8221;infographics&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheer pleasure is not the only good thing about spending free time with books. Reading can reduce stress\u00a0by 68%, and it only takes 6 minutes to achieve that.\u00a0Interested in finding out other benefits of reading for pleasure? See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=&#8221;lists&#8221; ] Check out an\u00a0interesting infographic created by Lenny Dutton, a\u00a0technology teacher and digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":106790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[11173,11570],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-benefits-of-reading-for-pleasure-infographic.jpg?fit=840%2C2984&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdOQhx-rMp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117540,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106789\/revisions\/117540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}