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Posted on 09-26-10 03:16:11 AM Link | Quote
I'm curious about how often people read books.

I read books a lot in middle and high school. I liked to always have a book to take to school to read when I had nothing else to do. I'd read a lot at home, too. Then, college started and I tended to stay on the Internet more as I was no longer on dialup, and at school I'd usually be either busy or able to go home or use the Internet on my laptop. I read a lot fewer books then.

Now, I think I'm starting to read more books again Oddly, I tend to read stuff I enjoyed in my childhood but haven't read in many years, such as the Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary

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Posted on 09-26-10 03:18:57 AM Link | Quote
Okay, this is just freaking. I was just talking about this with a friend from high school via Facebook.

I used to read A LOT when I was younger.

Not so much now. It takes me MONTHS to finish a book.

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Posted on 09-26-10 06:39:13 PM Link | Quote
I read every day. Since I'm on limited funds, I don't own a whole lot of books. Taking that into account, I decided to only read when I eat dinner. It prevents me from reading the books too fast and thus it makes them last longer. If it weren't for me purposely holding back, I would go crazy. I simply read too fast and have too much time on my hands.

Every so often I'll read some ebooks such as the Percy Jackson series or Jurassic Park but I'm picky with books. And I really prefer to have a physical copy in my hands but not much I can do about it.

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Posted on 09-26-10 06:51:41 PM Link | Quote
Not that often. My English major has burned me out on books for a little bit, so I haven't been reading anything at all lately.

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Posted on 09-26-10 07:29:42 PM Link | Quote
Much more than usual, considering that I have to be on a bus for an hour and fifteen minutes of my life every day. Sometimes I'll play my DS, though other times I will read, which is good, because I used to get car sick sometimes when I read.

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Posted on 09-26-10 09:44:23 PM Link | Quote
I have (literally) 100's of books in my room and I'm a very quick reader. When I was younger, I managed to read the ENTIRE Chronicals of Narnia series in two days. Lately, I don't seem to read much. I keep watching M*A*S*H before I go to bed instead of reading like I used to.

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Posted on 09-27-10 02:52:33 AM Link | Quote
When I get in to a new book or series, I tend to read a lot. It first started with Lord of the Rings. I wasn't much of a reader until I read those when I was about 13. After that, I started with the Star Wars series and several other fantasy series. I think it wasn't until after the 4th Harry Potter movie that I decided to read them all and I finished all 6 books (at the time) in about 2 months. I've ready at least 80% of the 50+ Star Wars books out there and I've read the entire Magician series by Feist. Lately I haven't been reading much because I post on Jul at work instead of reading

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Posted on 11-01-10 01:02:05 PM (last edited by Imajin at 11-01-10 10:02 AM) Link | Quote


I used to read a lot more than I do now... though I was an Amazon Kindle last Christmas so I've been using that to read more books again, but before that there was a period where I read basically no books at all...

EDIT: And I just realized that this was a reply to an old thread and a link post... darnit.

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