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 * 1.0 Background Information**

Reading is very important that can give many benefits to people. As an example, reading can give new knowledge to people. Such benefit is very important to people.These new knowledge can make new development. Development in a country is very important in the world today. Reading can afford learning opportunities. People do make mistakes in different ways but by learning something new, mistakes can be avoid. Habit in reading is different between other people. People do read when there is a need such as a number of students in school read when exam is near. This situation also happens on some students of Universiti Malaysia Pahang. These number of students in Universiti Malaysia Pahang do lack of reading habit. Today, there are some students having low quality after graduation. It just not happen in Universiti Malaysia Pahang but also in a number of Malaysians. Some people around Malaysia do not spend their free time with reading. It is really beneficial when somebody does spend free time with any reading materials. So, it is very interesting to find out the number of books do students read during free time and the type of book they read. With this research, it may give awareness to students, parents and even the university on the reading habit of Universiti Malaysia Pahang students.

**1.1 Definition of Key Terms**  It is a habit that can give a lot of benefit such as can improve our knowledge, give new idea, to (make alert-rephrase) with the current situation in the world. Including male and female student at campus of University Malaysia Pahang between students from several faculties such as Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. We also want to find out the reading habits between students in differences races.  (a) How much do students read in one day? (b) What type of reading materials do student read?  (a) To find out student read the book in one day. (b) To find out type of the book student read.
 * (a) **** Reading Habits **
 * (b) **** Students **
 * 1.2 Research Questions** 
 * 1.3 Objective of the Study** 