When you carry your heavy schoolbag on the way to school or home, do you know the fact that the heavy schoolbag influences your interest in learning knowledge? Don't worry. You may be able to say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag in the near future.

Instead of burying(埋葬) your face in an ocean of textbooks, newspapers, magazines and novels, you will soon find that an E-book reader can take the place of them all.

An E-book reader is a new kind of mini machine designed to hold thousands of text files and display them on the screen as real text printed(印刷) on a paper page.

In t he same way in which the iPod(a kind of MP3) has changed the way people enjoy music, E-book readers could change the way that books are read. Some scientists have predicted that E-books will be used widely in our daily life, especially in schools.

The size of an E-book reader is the same as that of real books. Its screen is different from that of a computer. It is as thin as a piece of paper. The words on an E-book reader's screen look exactly the same as those on real pages. However, you can do more with an E-book reader than you can with a real book. The reader can change the size of the words and connect to the Internet to download new books.

   I'm not a fast reader and I don't read as much as many other people, but reading is something I enjoy. It opens new worlds to me.

Recently I found Kobo, an online book store that allows me to buy e-books and read them on a device(设备) of my choice. I'm a girl living in Indonesia, where e-books are not available and I had to buy physical books (有形图书) from Amazon in the past. There are two problems with it:

Shipping cost. Since I live far away from the United States, it costs a lot to Ship a book.

Shipping costs almost as much as the book itself.

Shipping time. It takes about three weeks for the books to arrive through postal mail.

Now with Kobo, I can eliminate those two problems. Not only does it cost less time and money to get the books, but also I prefer to read e-books this way than reading physical books. Here are three reasons why:

●I can easily bring the books everywhere. Since all the books are in my iPod touch, I can simply put the device into my pocket and bring it everywhere I go.

●The size is smaller. The size of the iPod Touch is smaller than a physical book. This makes reading more convenient(方便) for me,

●I can read in any position I want. The iPod has a light source, so I can read when I am in darkness. This means that I can read in practically any position and condition.

One more advantage I haven't mentioned is space. Physical books take space, but e-books don't.

   We can easily and cheaply get all the wisdom of the ages， all the stories that have delighted（使快乐） mankind for centuries， but we must know how to use this treasure and how to get the most from it． The most unfortunate people all over the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books．

I am very interested in people， in meeting them and finding about them． I've found in books new friends， new societies， and new words． Reading is a pleasure of mind． It is a little like a sport： Your eagerness for knowledge and quickness make you a good reader． Your experience， compared with his， brings you to the same or different conclusions， and your ideas develop as you understand his．

Every book stands by itself， like a one﹣family house， but books in a library are like houses in a city． Wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas， and finally you not only find out about the world and the people in it， you find out about yourself， too．

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be． If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "you ought" to read， you probably won't have fun． But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you， and then relax with it， you will almost certainly have a good time， and if you become， as a result of reading， better， wiser， kinder， or more gentle， you won't have suffered during the process．

   I have a very useful dictionary. There are a lot of words in it. It gives many meanings for _________ word. But I always read the first meaning of a word in the dictionary. I never read the other meanings, because I wanted to read my book _________. This morning, _________ I was reading a book, I met a strange sentence. It looked _________ first. The sentence had six words: "Draw a picture of your house." I knew five words in this sentence, but I didn't understand one word. I didn't _________ "draw". I opened my dictionary and _________ the first meaning of "draw". It was "pull". I said to myself, "Now I know all the words, and I think I can understand the sentence." So I wrote the meaning of the sentence, "Pull a picture of your house." I read it, and what was the meaning of it? I didn't understand it.

My friend Dick read my new sentence. He laughed. He picked _________ my dictionary, and said to me, "Look, Jack. The second _________ of 'draw' is 'make a picture with a pen, a pencil and a brush'. _________ the sentence means: Make a picture of your house. I _________! I thought Dick was great. And at last I knew how to use my dictionary.