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How do reading books raise your mood?

How do reading bo oks raise your mood? Accord my experience, reading can affect you in various situations. When I am angry, books will make me calm. When I am sad, books will lift me up. When I am nervous, books will change my focus. Diving into a world of imaginary characters is useful for a person. If you want to relax from daily obligations, try to read. When I am reading, it is like I am moving in the movie scene.  I can see characters in front of my eyes and the plot will cause various reactions. Adrenaline, fast heartbeats, sorrow, even hate. How could a negative character in this book be so selfish? How could they be so cruel? When you are reading, you are not disturbing anyone, and you prevent yourself from others disturbing you. Is there a better excuse to get rid of annoying strangers than show a book or e-book? I remember days, when nobody support my side and previous friends turned me back. Swimming in the waters of depression, I had only books to cheer me up. While I w...

What does it mean, reading in KENP?

If you are the author or a reader, you will see the term KENP. KENP stands for Kindle Edition Normalised Pages. Amazon uses the process as the formula to calculate the number of ebook pages read by a Kindle Unlimited subscriber. For every page of your ebook that a reader reads, you earn royalties. Some readers have a membership in Kindle Unlimited. If you are their member, it means you can download books for free. Every time when you read your downloaded e-book, it will show in statistics, by the number of reading pages.  It is a good substitute for sale. For authors who have low sales, it would be good to have a higher rate of KENP read pages. That is not so simple, because it must count in thousands of pages to earn more.  How does it work? You can only earn page read royalties when you enroll your ebook in  Amazon KDP Select  to make it available on Kindle Unlimited (KU). However, when you enroll, you will have to agree to make your ebook exclusive to Amazon....