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[coraa]

Another poll. This one's on reading habits, and for no better reason than because I'm shamelessly curious.

For the purposes of this poll, I'm counting physical books, audiobooks and ebooks of the type you would read in an ebook reader. I'm not counting stuff you read on the web, not because I don't think it's 'real' writing but because I think there's considerably less deliberateness -- one of the beautiful things about the Internet, to me, is that you can spend thirty minutes clicking around and wind up reading about quantum physics or the history of cheese without really realizing how you got there. Which is awesome! But doesn't really say much about what you prefer to read.

EDIT: And I'm counting manga and Western graphic novels that have been collected into books. Basically, as meganbmoore put it, if it has a spine, I count it.



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EDIT: I meant to mention manga and graphic novels under Fiction, and Politics under Non-Fiction, and then I goofed and didn't. Whoops.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

My option for simultaneous reads wasn't there. I read two at a time: one (relatively) big book at home and one (relatively) small/light book while walking around.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

When I was a teenager, I had three books at any given time: one that I read in bed, that stayed upstairs in my bedroom; one that I read in the living room/downstairs, that stayed on the coffee table; and one that I read at school, that stayed in my locker and usually came from the school library anyway.

[triath.livejournal.com]

Same. Sometimes books are too bulky/heavy/large to carry on the bus or pack in a bag so I'll start a lighter book for that purpose.

Similarly sometimes I'll have one lighter plot book and a denser book going at the same time because one requires too much concentration for certain locations.

[maggiedacatt.livejournal.com]

I'll never forget in undergrad when I was waiting around for the rest of my class to show up to the van loading zone for a field trip (film production class going to a production company and an production-equipment rental company), and I was reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, hardcover, without the dust jacket. My professor looked at me (and I guess to him, I had my nose stuck in a perfectly gimongous book) and said, "Getting a little light reading in, Amber?" I blinked and replied, in a tone that implied that I considered nothing to be lighter reading, "It's Harry Potter!"

Except, of course, for the physical weight of the book. ^_^

[linley.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too. I like having a book with me on public transit, but I can only concentrate so well, and I often am carrying my laptop, etc., with me, so I want the book to be lighter in many respects.