How do you read?

[The Penguin]

Reading can be a challenge for me. It depends on how a person writes.

 

[SameStars]

I trace lines by sight, and don't pay attention to chapters, I'll stop randomly (forgetting a bookmark most of the time). Usually I read in a chair or on the couch, but I can read everywhere - on the ground, standing or walking. I don't often read at a table. I hold my book up in two hands or let it rest on my legs or stomach.
I'm able to ignore the sounds around me while reading. Television sounds, music and people talking don't bother me.

 

[karla]

I love reading (if the book intrest me). I´m very good at focusing for a long time, but I can´t without silence and a good light.

 

[Harrison]

I tend to read in bed with the lights off and just the glow of my Kindle. I have to have silence though as any sounds distract me from the story. I 'see' the story being played out so it's pretty intense and I read until I get tired.

I can get so absorbed in the story sometimes that I can forget to go to sleep.

 

[Grumpy Cat]

I usually read in bed before going to sleep with a ton of pillows behind me and a nice glass of red wine. I have an e-reader (Kindle from Amazon, of course ) and to help facilitate sleep all the lights are out with some candles going and I use a book light (I have a first generation Kindle that looks like an actual book page.) Talk radio also has to be going in the background or I'll use my ear buds with my iPhone and listen to some sound conditioner noise like a thunderstorm. I'll read until I get really tired, but the problem is I'll keep reading until I practically pass out and then the next night I'll have to reread several pages because I can't remember reading them!
Sometimes I'll read outside at night when it's not too hot and not too cold or at school before class to help calm my nerves.

 

[2aspirin]

Reading is my most compulsive and endless activity. It is interrupted by writing and then, after that, eating, exercise, photographing things and lastly being with people. I am a de-coder by impulse. Non-fiction content is always preferred. If it relates to people, math and science, that is best. I will read and read for most of the day (and while waiting in a waiting room, might read all the wikipedia entries on camouflage designs, their names, origins and rationales -- or an article about tire tread designs and the road-grip physics involved). For books, I mainly read just auto-biographies. I have some interest in historic fiction if there is a lot of non-fiction info in it. If I don't keep reading or otherwise de-code, I get anxious. My eyes will always be drawn to text and signs in any room and I will re-read them if I have to. Otherwise my mind also looks for patterns and de-codes the math and physics involved.

I believe many of us are either decoders or coders. If you are a coder, don't give yourself too hard a time about not reading as well!!

I wish I could re-train myself to be more the coder type because I have art talents and app ideas. I know some coding and am good with logic and attention to detail, I just cannot keep the brain from turning itself back to decoding.

Oh and: I read both on paper and digitally (ipad or iphone).

 

[xXGrizeldaXx]

Is it comfortable to hold a kindle? as i enjoy reading in bed, but I'm always turning on side to side to belly, and bend the book back, Im tempted to get a kindle when i see how cheap e-books are but are they tough/ comfortable to hold? as i am always dropping things or standing on them

 

[Grumpy Cat]

Is it comfortable to hold a kindle? as i enjoy reading in bed, but I'm always turning on side to side to belly, and bend the book back, Im tempted to get a kindle when i see how cheap e-books are but are they tough/ comfortable to hold? as i am always dropping things or standing on them

I'd never go back to books. They're a pain in the butt especially if they are thick and with an actual book you can pretty much forget a book light. If you want a book right away (like me since I don't like leaving the house much) you can pop right into the Kindle Store find it and buy it and its sent to you in seconds (a debit or credit card is needed). No more storing books which is the main reason I got one (I've had my Kindle since they first came out - I don't know the date). Downside is that on my Kindle the pictures are black and white. You can get other Kindles that resemble a tablet and have color, but I have never updated mine because it has an actual keyboard and the screen resembles an actual book page (which Kindle branched off into the tablet with color then came back to the tablet with the "paper page" except smaller than mine and no keyboard so I'm glad I didn't upgrade). Another down side is that some books are more expensive than if you were to purchase the paperback - major suckness, but I still like having thousands of books stored in just one small device and you can have access to your books from any other device since Amazon stores them on the cloud. I just love Amazon!!!! (But you all already know that.)