Book Reading habits
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Some of my favorite books that has been in my bookshelf for twenty, thirty or fourty years, I can pull from the shelf to look up a single chapter or passage for rereading by itself. I know the book so well that I've got the context perfectly clear. In no way will this disturb my end-to-end reading of a another novel. I've got somewhere around 15-20 books that know that well and love that much; I certainly don't handle all books that way.
Same here. There are some of my books I like so much that I have to ration how often I read them. Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty and Footfall, and C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun and Chanur series. I just finished reading Chanur for probably the dozen-th time. It will probably be three or four years before I read it again. I just bought latest volume in Cherryh's Foreigner series. I'm trying to decide if I want to go back and reread the earlier 20 books in the sequence before I read the new one.
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Technical - multiple, in electronic format. Technical books are just tools of the trade so not bothered about the e-format Non-technical - one at a time and ALWAYS in paper form - there's just something so tactile about paper print that adds to the enjoyment of the read, so wouldn't dream of reading for enjoyment from an e-reader...
Leo56 wrote:
Non-technical - one at a time and ALWAYS in paper form
I told someone not too long ago that I always wanted paper books for fiction, as they are gateways to other places and times, and you can't get there with an e-book.
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
I listen to one audiobook at a time, mostly while commuting. Currently Hobb's Liveship Traders series. For hardback/paperbacks, I was reading the original Gundam light novel, but temporarily set it aside to reread Weker's The Golem and the Jinni for a library book discussion. I'm usually working on one or two nonfiction books, often as research for writing projects.
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
Only one at a time. Its hard to keep track when reading multiple books.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
In my particular case: I experience the need to read at any given moment more like thirst. Most of the time water will suffice, meaning I could read anything available to me however, like with thirst; sometimes I feel either whisky or soda is the only thing that will quench it, meaning that I HAVE to read either a technical or a fiction book and not the other. I could also be reading multiple books in parallel, usually either technical or fiction and rarely ever any other genre but which one it is at any given moment depends on that thirst otherwise I find reading non-enjoyable.
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No visual anchors? It is an old saying that "The images of a radio play are so much better that those on TV". That holds for books as well.
I was going to point out roughly the same thing. With books, the "visual anchors" (as Eddy called them) exist, but you get to make them up. Which is why book-based TV series/movies so often disappoint ("it's nothing like I pictured it"). And going back to a book after seeing a TV series/movies "ruins" it for some people. In my case, I've seen the Lord of the Rings movies before I ever read the books. It's impossible for me to dissociate the two, and I'm fine with that. Yet I can understand why the Tolkien purists hate the movies. But that's a debate for another time (and place) I won't be part of because I frankly don't care enough).
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
Technical books I general hit different parts of multiple books in a given time-frame. General Fiction and Non-Fiction, I prefer to read one at a time, and in series, as I like to immerse myself into the plots. Comic books, I generally save up a few months of a given title and read them in sequence. Mainly because the amount of content in a given comic book is usually not long enough to satisfy. (I still subscribe to paper comics). Technical publications, I will read on a monitor... but for entertainment purposes, give me paper. I find it difficult to enjoy non-technical writing on any type of tablet or monitor. Perhaps because I spend enough time in front of them in my work hours (which are usually too long anyway).
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion. I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location. 1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation) 2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters) 3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands) 4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid) 5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
One on Kindle one from the library. Sometimes even one I own. All fiction - mostly thrillers/suspense/murder mysteries. Sometimes light sci-fi, like Robin Cook or Douglas E. Richards. Anything from James Patterson, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Mary Higgins Clark, etc. Use goodreads.com to keep track.
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"..they are real books.." - Nice one! :) But don't you find that the film versions of books are sometimes very different from the way you imagined them to be when first reading them? And look at the dogs breakfast film has made (so far..) of the likes of Dune? Although, I'll grant, the Lord of the Rings was pretty darn good. So, which, if any, books would you like to see on film?
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FYI, I had a power cut last night from before I got home until 1am... kind of made me wish I had a book laying around :sigh: :doh: :laugh:
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Leo56 wrote:
And look at the dogs breakfast film has made (so far..) of the likes of Dune?
Hey, don't knock it! The 1984 version had Picard, agent Dale Cooper, Admiral Al Calavicci, and Chucky all in the same film. :-D (And Sting, but we'll try to forget that.) Still looking forward to seeing how this year's version fares. :) Dune (2020 film) - Wikipedia[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Ah, the spice. "the only source of the most valuable substance in the universe, "the spice", a drug which extends human life, provides superhuman levels of thought, and makes foldspace travel possible." In reality, it would be snake oil. Dune creates a fiction where a new discovery can truly do everything. If I could remember all the scientists who boasted that their new discovery could cure all of the human ills and then some. (I do remember a blurb some time ago about one scientist and his discovery of what more Vitamin C could do.)