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What's Normal? - Do you read books on a regular basis? (1 Viewer)

Do you read books on a regular basis?

  • Yes

    Votes: 68 48.9%

  • No

    Votes: 71 51.1%
  • Total voters
    139
Dr. Octopus said:
I used to read at least 5-6 books a year - but have dropped off tremendously. I need to start reading again.
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same. I get in grooves but if I hit a stinker, I'll go several months without reading. A beach vacation or long airline flight usually prompts me to try again.
 
I'll go with no because while I read books it's not "regular". I used to get and read the free Amazon monthly book but got away from that. Finished a book recently and then bought the Oppenheimer book. Got a couple of chapters in and got busy so I haven't gone back to it yet. I'll probably have to start over...
 
Keerock said:
I've literally read one book in my "adult" lifetime and that was because I was forced to in 12th Grade English class.

Voted no.
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I was similar. I never read assigned books in school and certainly didn't read any books just for the fun of it most of my life. Got through all schooling without reading a complete book other than one assigned book in college that I forced myself to read (it was awful). After college, I read only a handful of books over the next 20+ years. However, the last two years or so, I've probably read about 30. For a while, I was keeping a list of all the books I read because I was so proud of myself for actually reading.
 
I used to but I don’t think I’ve finished a book in several years. Maybe I’m just not in the right loops anymore but there just doesn’t seem to be buzz about new , popular books. I don’t even know what I’d want to read.
 
Read on average 30 books a year. One year I read 52 books. Mostly just police/spy/mystery books, but a few non-fiction every year as well.

Kindle and local library membership.
 
I have only read maybe 3 or 4 books I wasn't forced to read due to school. They were a couple Grisham novels and a couple King novels (no not IT. that's like 12 books by itself). The last book I read on my own accord was probably over 25 years ago.
 
Just 2 or 3 per year, tops. I fall asleep way too easily when reading, so it takes me forever to get through one and I often don't build enough momentum to carry through.
 
From ages 6 through even college I read on almost a nightly basis. Then, law school and this website hit. I can count on one hand the books I've read recreationally since then. Off the top of my head, I can only remember reading Shutter Island and two Dan Arielly books about human irrationality and how such can be utilized/predicted.

*Funny story on Shutter Island. I spent like 4-5 days straight with my RacistEx and her family and friends at Country Thunder. If you don't know what Country Thunder is, it's this massive multi-day country music festival in the middle of the AZ desert where people camp out and the days are spent drinking, grilling, playing cornhole, etc. then late afternoon the concerts start on the main stage. While I don't mind the former for a day or two, I don't like country music for even a minute. So, by like day three, I was just over drinking and listening to songs about cold beers and trucks, so I asked one of girls in the group if I could read her book which happened to be Shutter Island. I handed it back to her later that day having read the whole thing. At first nobody believed me, then I got made fun of incessantly for being a huge nerd.
 
Gally said:
I have only read maybe 3 or 4 books I wasn't forced to read due to school. They were a couple Grisham novels and a couple King novels (no not IT. that's like 12 books by itself). The last book I read on my own accord was probably over 25 years ago.
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Funny story about It. I read the book in fifth grade. To be clear, I didn't understand probably half of it, but I legitimately read it and would usually read it at school when I got my work done or during recess (yeah, I was that cool). We had a substitute one day and, during recess where most kids are literally bouncing off walls, I'm reading It and I showed my buddy a paragraph filled with expletives and sexual references inappropriate for 11 year olds or whatever we were. Sub's attention gets drawn to us because we are laughing and my friend tells the sub why we are laughing. Sub grabs the book and her eyes widen. However, there was then this hysterical moment where you could see her wheels turning and she was truly debating how to discipline a kid for reading a book at school during recess.

After a few moments, she hands me back the book and just says, "that's not appropriate for school." Next day my main teacher pulls me aside and says that I can keep reading but I can't show the other kids the bad words or dirty passages.
 
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Up until about 10 years ago, I used to read about 20-30 non-fiction books - plus a handful of novels and short-story collections - every year. I also had favorites I would re-read every few years (e.g. Asimov's original Foundation trilogy).

My eyesight is no longer good enough to comfortably read paper books, so almost all my reading these days is short-form works on a phone or laptop. I have tried the Kindle app on my phone, and it's passable, but it hasn't grabbed me the way paper books once did.
 
Voted yes because I almost always have a book I'm in the middle of, but the volume has fallen off tremendously with the advent of smartphones and streaming. :kicksrock:
 
Bozeman Bruiser said:
Read? Maybe 5 this year

Listen? Probably 30 this year
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I tried the listening idea and perhaps the book I chose to try it with was simply an unwise decision on my part (was a book on the F-35), but I made it maybe 15 minutes into it before I realized I wasn't retaining enough material. I ended up purchasing the book instead. Probably just me. Others I've talked to say they retain things just fine with audio books.
 
Doug B said:
Up until about 10 years ago, I used to read about 20-30 non-fiction books - plus a handful of novels and short-story collections - every year. I also had favorites I would re-read every few years (e.g. Asimov's original Foundation trilogy).

My eyesight is no longer good enough to comfortably read paper books, so almost all my reading these days is short-form works on a phone or laptop. I have tried the Kindle app on my phone, and it's passable, but it hasn't grabbed me the way paper books once did.
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Have you tried the Kindle device?
 
I used to sit out on the porch, smoke cigarettes and tear through novels. Since I quit smoking 12 years ago, I’d guess I’ve read maybe 5 books.
 
So interesting to me that people can read for hours on end. I'm actually a little jealous of y'all... well maybe not as much now that there's internet and streaming. My parents both read a ton, an older brother reads a lot. I just never got into enjoying it... I actually HATED it.
 
I'm streaky. Will get a wild hair from time to time and decide I want to read and plow through a couple of books, and then won't read for months.

Not afraid of some serious or long stuff either. Prefer great fiction or good biographies. Most recent book was "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965" which was incredible (volume 3 of his biography) and I blew through it despite it being like 1200 pages.
 
The General said:
At night in bed most evenings. Usually make it about 5 pages and then crash. Takes me months to read a book.
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That was my prime reading time for a long time ... a half-hour or so before bed. Often some reading upon waking up, as well.

When I got into my 30s, though ... I'd last shorter and shorter time reading before falling asleep.
 
I go through periods where I read. For example 6 months ago I read 10-15 terry Pratchett book.

Those are so fast to read though. I can read a couple a week.

I have the first book in the wheel of time staring at me. I want to read it, but dislike the time commitment that I know I have coming my way.
 
I read all the time, just not many books.

I have read a couple of Mitch Alboms books as you can blow through them in a day or two.
 
Doug B said:
The General said:
Have you tried the Kindle device?
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Not yet ... someday. Or else a tablet.
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I’d def try one out. I have the PaperWhite one (called something like that) and is a good device. Can use outside or in bright areas, is backlit for indoors when dark, battery lasts forever, holds hundreds of books.

The online store on the Kindle is trash but if you know what you want is easy enough to buy.
 
I read 15-30 minutes about five nights per week, mostly before bedtime. Like a lot of others, I used to read more especially when I was flying a lot for business.

I alternate between fiction and non-fiction titles.
 
Keerock said:
So interesting to me that people can read for hours on end. I'm actually a little jealous of y'all... well maybe not as much now that there's internet and streaming. My parents both read a ton, an older brother reads a lot. I just never got into enjoying it... I actually HATED it.
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This is me......except for the jealous of those that read hours on end. I just have absolutely no interest in doing that. Trying to read a book generally just makes me bored and my mind starts wandering. It really becomes a bit of a waste of time.
 
Eephus said:
The General said:
I’d def try one out. I have the PaperWhite one (called something like that) and is a good device. Can use outside or in bright areas, is backlit for indoors when dark, battery lasts forever, holds hundreds of books.
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The dedicated Kindle device is also better than the app because it removes the distraction/temptation to switchover to another app.
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I assume the device is linked with the app? All my highlighting and notes that I do in the app I can then see if I were to get a device and vice versa? I do 90% of my reading on the Kindle app on an iPad.
 
I haven't really had time to sit down with a book in a while, but I drive alot for work and listen to alot of audiobooks (and podcasts).
My audiobook library is up to 180 on Audible. How should I vote here?

ETA, one of my HS Yearbook "dislikes" was "Books of literary merit" but as a kid I always had a book with me on flights, long car rides, etc.
 
Gally said:
Keerock said:
So interesting to me that people can read for hours on end. I'm actually a little jealous of y'all... well maybe not as much now that there's internet and streaming. My parents both read a ton, an older brother reads a lot. I just never got into enjoying it... I actually HATED it.
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This is me......except for the jealous of those that read hours on end. I just have absolutely no interest in doing that. Trying to read a book generally just makes me bored and my mind starts wandering. It really becomes a bit of a waste of time.
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I'm mostly jealous because I know it tends to make you smarter/more knowledgeable.
 
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