Many people don't know what books to buy or how to buy them.
Someone recommended it on WeChat group and Weibo and bought it, regardless of whether the book is suitable for you or not. After buying, books are often shelved and never opened again. I saw someone recommend it again, then I bought it and went back and forth.
Another situation is that the book website is promoting sales and starts to buy a lot of books, both suitable and unsuitable. Anyway, it looks good. Put it in the shopping cart and make it 200 MINUS 100.
Personally, I think it's a good idea to buy books according to others' recommendations, but it needs to be combined with my own actual situation, so I can't buy them as soon as I recommend them.
We will also find that many books that have been at the top of the sales list for a long time, some of which are actually very general, feel very disappointed after buying them and reading them. At this time, you will be confused. Who should I listen to and what books should I read? Those books with many comments and high scores don't read very well, but if no one recommends them, I don't know what books are good.
This has fallen into the misunderstanding of buying books.
So, how to buy books?
Today, I will simply share with you a few methods, all of which are personal experience accumulation, for reference only.
It doesn't mean that bestsellers are necessarily bad. In the long run, A Dream of Red Mansions is also a best seller. I say this because many bestsellers have just entered the market and have not been tested. Whether the content of a best-selling book is of high quality needs to be viewed from a long-term perspective of three to five years.
If the listing will explode, either because of the author's high popularity or because of marketing operation, these need market testing.
If a bestseller occupies the list for a long time, you can consider buying it. It is not recommended to follow the trend blindly in the first year.
There are many books that sell well for a while and then disappear like the wind. This kind of book that can't stand the market test is generally not of particularly high quality, so you don't have to waste time reading it.
The established and well-known publishing houses are very strict in topic selection, which ensures the quality of the content from the source. Some patchwork and fabricated books rarely appear in well-known publishing houses.
Therefore, one of the shortcuts to buy quality books is to choose a good publishing house.
It's like going to the mall to buy sportswear, Nike and Adidas. The quality won't be too bad. Its brand determines its quality. But if you go to a street shop to buy beautiful and dazzling sportswear, you will find that the material is very uncomfortable when you wear it at home, and the thread will fall off after wearing it for a few days, and so on. Although there are high-quality clothes, it should not be a high probability event.
The same is true of buying books. Old-fashioned publishing houses, the packaging may not be so beautiful, and there may not be many gorgeous waist seals on the books. For example, the series of Chinese translations of famous books by the Commercial Press is a simple white cover with no publicity and no recommendation from famous artists, but no one will doubt that it is a classic book.
However, in the bookstore, we can see that many schoolbags are exquisitely packaged and have huge waistcoats, which list all kinds of award-winning information and famous recommendation, which often makes you feel that if you don't buy this book, it will be like missing 100 million yuan. At this time, you should pay attention. Look at the publishing house Is it more authoritative in this field? I still haven't heard of it, and I still make a living by selling book numbers instead of checking the quality of books.
At present, there are many private publishing companies cooperating with publishing houses, but many private companies are doing very well, and the topics are of high quality and the content is relatively guaranteed.
For your convenience, here are some publishers I often choose when buying books:
Literature: People's Literature Publishing House, October Literature Publishing House, Writers Publishing House, Nanhai Publishing House.
Foreign Literature: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House and Central Compilation Publishing House.
Social Science: Commercial Press, Sanlian Bookstore, Social Science Literature Publishing House, CITIC Publishing House, Republic of China of Guangxi Normal University, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House.
Most of the teaching materials are university press, higher education press and people's education press. , not listed here.
The promotion of the website is really strong. Sometimes, after the full reduction, the book is less than 34% off, so it is undoubtedly very cost-effective to start at this time. But sometimes, an article you are reading introduces a book, or you just need to read that book, so buy it, because when it is promoted, you may not want to read it or need to read it at that time. Knowledge is interlinked, and when you read a book, it will expand to many books. At that time, it is the best time to conquer them.
There is another method, which is suitable for books that are not in a hurry, such as classics and literature. These books take a lot of time, not a short time to finish. You can read it in Douban, or put the book in the shopping cart in Dangdang or Amazon. When the website is promoted, you can take the opportunity to start with all these books, so you don't have to buy them at random to make up the full amount.
I often suddenly want to read a writer's book, and then go to the website to find it, because there are enough books in the shopping cart before, so I can place an order for free, and I can see the book I want to read the next day.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer people read paper books, and the development of mobile internet has also made e-books develop rapidly. Many e-book reading apps are doing very well, and books are on the shelves quickly. For some entertaining and light-reading books, you can read them on the app. You can also read genuine e-books on kindle, but the disadvantage is that it is not as convenient as mobile phones, and the screen response is a bit slow. The advantage is that it doesn't hurt your eyes.
E-book reading is especially suitable for those books that can be read at one time and do not need to be collected. Before going to work by subway, I read Netease snail every day. After a period of accumulation, I can read a lot of books.
But this way of reading is not suitable for books that need in-depth thinking, such as masterpieces and history, because when reading these books, you need to draw key points, take notes, and sometimes you need to look back. At this time, e-books have no advantage.
Therefore, according to the content of the book, choosing different media can increase reading sales and reduce reading costs.
That's all for today about how to buy books. In the future, I will talk about the following contents one after another: should I read extra-curricular books, do I study hard, is reading useful, is it beneficial to open books, can I listen to books, and forget what to do after reading books. ...