Yangtze River Delta Reading Marathon

How to enter

Reading is a very personal thing, so why compete with others？

Reading can't be raced, but reading skills can be raced. A reading marathon is a race to examine reading skills. The first is to determine whether a book is worth reading in a short period of time, and the second is to acquire most of the knowledge and ideas that the book is intended to convey in a period of time. By constantly improving our ability to review our reading, we can more efficiently acquire the knowledge we need and thus build up our knowledge framework. We have included a test in the Readathon to check the quality of the finishers' reading. So the Reading Marathon is not just about the speed game.

Of course, the organizers of the Readathon are also veteran readers and very much agree that reading is a very personal thing. But we also know that promoting reading is not an individual thing, but the responsibility of every reader. Through a collective reading competition with a sense of ritual, Readathon creates common memories of readers, shows the society the act of reading and the readers, and allows people who have not read a book in its entirety to develop confidence in reading. We sincerely hope that people who love reading will push their friends around them who want to read but don't read often to participate together. In this way, the readathon becomes a great opportunity for every reader to promote reading to those around them. Thus, we say that the Readathon is a reading event that belongs to every reader.

What do I get out of it besides my race results？

What do you want from a reading marathon？

Readathon believes that the decline in reading rates in modern society is related to the fact that the function of books for entertainment and access to information is being replaced by an increasing number of other cheaper and more convenient media in the Internet age. The most important function of reading - to enhance human understanding of the world - has become more important nowadays and has become the most important purpose of reading. Modern people need to build a complete framework of thinking about how the world works if they want to sift through the vast amount of information to find what is truly useful to them, and reading, especially intensive reading, is the most effective way to build this framework. Through research and practice on the purpose of reading, reading methods, and reading communities, Readathon aims to reconstruct the connection between readers and reading, so that more people can achieve lifelong learning through reading. To this end, Readathon not only organizes reading events, but also promotes reading education for the whole society: this includes three levels of reading method education and exploration of the world through the creation of general knowledge book lists and personal book lists.

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Read about the marathon related events

The reading marathon is constantly innovating in the field of reading promotion. Based on the 6-hour regular competition, it has developed a rich and colorful reading form: including organizing a simpler and more convenient reading marathon with a larger scale for the purpose of reading experience; The reading marathon super race and super reading with a longer cycle and the goal of cultivating reading habits and incubating reading clubs; According to a theme, three classic books are selected to carry out the "study camp and lecture" of collaborative learning through reading, notes, speeches, discussions, analysis, summary and speeches;