Since we're all readers, would you mind taking a minute and sharing some information such as:
- Where/when do you read?
- Do you prefer silence or some controlled chaos around you? TV/music in the background?
- How much do you read at a time?
- Do you ever read a series or chapters out of order?
- Do you skip to the end? (As Harry says in the movie When Harry Met Sally, "When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends.")
- Do you prefer paperback or hard cover? What's your feeling on e-books?
Etc.
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I read in bed for about 20 minutes before I go to sleep. Although, I've been known to lay down on the couch for a couple hours and do a lot of reading if I'm in the middle of something extremely interesting, such as YW or The Last Apprentice series. I used to do the same 12+ years ago on Saturdays when I would go with my dad to the music shop and read The Magic Treehouse books. In either case, the quieter the better. My high school library has a couple nice armchairs in a quiet side room containing the fiction and children's books and I used to read in there if I had no work to do during my free block.
Books, along with Nintendos, are my favorite way to get through long car journeys. I don't get carsick.
Whenver I take a hiatus from reading for whatever reason (usually school), I find that I fall asleep faster and have a better sleep in general when I read before I sleep.
I'm a slow reader; I read silently at the same rate that I would imagine the text being spoken out loud. I consider myself lucky that I have this tendency, so reading out loud goes well for me.
I read YW and other books at my dad's and the Bible at my mom's. I pretty much split my time evenly between houses. This problem with this is that I go nowhere fast with either book I'm reading; it takes me weeks to finish a YW book, and I've barely made a dent in the Bible and it's been a little over a year (I guess because the Old Testament isn't particularly exciting; I only read a few pages at a time).
As far as paperback or hardcover, I don't have a particular preference, but because I got SYWTBAW in paperback, I've kept the rest of my collection the same. I prefer the artwork on the paperback, anyway.
I prefer good ol' ink and paper, but If I were to read anything on a screen, it would have to be the basic Kindle/Nook/whatever, with the electronic ink screen. I couldn't stand reading for long periods of time on a (backlit) LCD.
I'm dead set against reading anything out of order. I hate spoilers and many works contain references to things in previous works that I'd miss out on.
- Where/when do you read?
- Do you prefer silence or some controlled chaos around you? TV/music in the background?
- How much do you read at a time?
- Do you ever read a series or chapters out of order?
- Do you skip to the end? (As Harry says in the movie When Harry Met Sally, "When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends.")
- Do you prefer paperback or hard cover? What's your feeling on e-books?
Etc.
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I read in bed for about 20 minutes before I go to sleep. Although, I've been known to lay down on the couch for a couple hours and do a lot of reading if I'm in the middle of something extremely interesting, such as YW or The Last Apprentice series. I used to do the same 12+ years ago on Saturdays when I would go with my dad to the music shop and read The Magic Treehouse books. In either case, the quieter the better. My high school library has a couple nice armchairs in a quiet side room containing the fiction and children's books and I used to read in there if I had no work to do during my free block.
Books, along with Nintendos, are my favorite way to get through long car journeys. I don't get carsick.
Whenver I take a hiatus from reading for whatever reason (usually school), I find that I fall asleep faster and have a better sleep in general when I read before I sleep.
I'm a slow reader; I read silently at the same rate that I would imagine the text being spoken out loud. I consider myself lucky that I have this tendency, so reading out loud goes well for me.
I read YW and other books at my dad's and the Bible at my mom's. I pretty much split my time evenly between houses. This problem with this is that I go nowhere fast with either book I'm reading; it takes me weeks to finish a YW book, and I've barely made a dent in the Bible and it's been a little over a year (I guess because the Old Testament isn't particularly exciting; I only read a few pages at a time).
As far as paperback or hardcover, I don't have a particular preference, but because I got SYWTBAW in paperback, I've kept the rest of my collection the same. I prefer the artwork on the paperback, anyway.
I prefer good ol' ink and paper, but If I were to read anything on a screen, it would have to be the basic Kindle/Nook/whatever, with the electronic ink screen. I couldn't stand reading for long periods of time on a (backlit) LCD.
I'm dead set against reading anything out of order. I hate spoilers and many works contain references to things in previous works that I'd miss out on.
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