Reading

I'm just curious to know, how many people here read? Like an actual paper book. It seems to be a dying thing these days, and I find it rare that there's another person in the school library reading a book or even checking them out. It's pretty sad to me.

Even if it's not a real book, it could be a nook or a kindle, or some kind of electronic book*

*my dad got me one for christmas. don't tell him because it'll break his little heart, but it's the worst present ever. i don't like those sorry excuses for books.

 

Hmm, my mom bought herself a Nook. I love reading old fashioned paper books. In fact, just last weekend I bought myself a new one. It keeps me company during school so I don't have to listen to the jibberish of all the idiots around me. Only teacher command my attention. A book is my last attempt at escape from my dreary life.

 

I can't read too much text on a computer at a time. It just bores me. When reading a book, I like to have a physical book. It makes me feel accomplished as I flip through all the pages I already read. A number on a nook just does not feel so satisfying...

 

Well for me, I really don't enjoy reading online. I can't really put a finger on why I don't enjoy it, but I just don't. I'll do it if I have to of course, or if I really can not get my hands on the actual, legit book. However if I can, that is always my first choice. Having it in my hands just makes it feel nicer. Hanging around in book stores (because around here there aren't much public libraries... or ones that I know of rather) are actually one of my favorite things to do.

 

I quite enjoy reading actual books as for online reading I don't really enjoy it as much. It does seem people who read Actuall books are becoming a dying breed. I too, hardly find anybody in librays or bookstores I think it's kinda sad that they much rather glue their guys to a computer screen or one of this electronic books then to flip through pages of a real book. Reading -I probably sound sad or whatever- but is a good pass time for me, it helps excersise my brain and in some cases helps/adds to my vocabulary and understanding of words.

 

I enjoy reading, though I'm finding it harder to find the time now to just sit down and get lost inside a good story. It distracts me from other things and I like escaping to another world. It also helps me with creativity and improving my own writing. I have a sony reader, which is good, although I've found I haven't stopped reading actual books as well. That's possibly because I'm too lazy to recharge it and buy the books online. I tend to pick up more books out and about. As for reading online, I don't think I would read a whole book online, it doesn't have the same sensation and it's more of a stain on your eyes than even an electronic book does.

 

I like reading but only before bed or on the bus.
Sometimes in free lessons. I agree it is a dying art.

I started reading more often because of an intellectual friend, he's the kind that makes you want to be a better person without telling you to (like you imitate him cos he's cool) so I read the diary of a wallflower and now reading this side of paradise. Internet and other things are super distracting though and it's odd to just sit down and read in the house.

It is amazing for creativity, thats what I found useful about english lessons but there is too much...narrow worshipping of the "Legends" of writing while ignoring the others who haven't changed the world or are modern. It is a little pretentious in my eyes.

I read online too because some fanfiction is good and other things but err online appeals because I don't wear my glasses but I should with books but I'm convinced glasses also damage your eyes while correcting vision. (which is why they get stronger over time along with age damaging eyes)

 

I don';t think there is a possible substitute for the smell of pages either new or old, or the feeling of neck strain you get when you lie in bed for half a day just reading constantly with the book in your hands, the lamp beside you on the desk with breaks only to go to the bathroom or get a new cup of tea because the old one has run dry.

I love reading. It's a lot like the way I love music, it just astounds me that people can create such vivid and beautiful images and emotions in us with something so simple as words or notes. It's a different sort of art form, and I really think that it should be better preserved. Writing is something which is so important in our lives and yet is often fundamentally overlooked in our lives. A lot of people say "I don't read" yet how many people of our generation (outside of the bible belt) have not ever picked up a Harry Potter book or *shudders* a Meyer book. I love the way that books can make you go just page after page of constantly reading and before you know it you've read 100 pages and it doesn't feel as though any time has passed at all.

 

It's dying, really? I haven't noticed really, well it isn't where I am, the libraries are packed with people looking for books.

I enjoy reading, I don't do it loads, just when I have the time. I find the characters interesting and how the react to each other, I enjoy looking at the hidden meanings behind the stories. I could never get one of the electronic books because, yes it is weird, I love the smell of paper books, and the feel of the pages. Making it electronic just modernises it beyond belief. I don't want to rely solely on machines for my enjoyment, also I like to feel how much I've read and how much book I have left by the amount of pages I have. Even though they store various books, it just wouldn't be the same.

 

I love a good book, but I'm very picky about what I choose to read. Usually, it's the main character's/narrator's ability to entertain me with sarcasm/wittiness that gets me to keep reading, but I can deal if it's just an ordinary mystery novel, too.

 

I feel the reason I can't read anything online or electrical, is because I'd get easily distracted...
I love to have a good book in hand, not a stupid Nook thing...
Reading is a favorite thing to do for me, But only during school, I can't read over the summer and I unfortunately think that paper books will become obsolete...And a "Nook" will be on a school supply list...

 

I've actually read quite a number of books.

They were mostly classwork, but they were interesting.

One of the ones that I enjoyed reading was Fahrenheit 451 because of how well it was written.

 

I read. avidly. its rare to find me without a book.

im currently reading Cold Fire, the third boom of The Circle Opens quartet. ive read it like 4 times, but meh. its good, so ill read it again.

 

I love reading real books, I actually don't like the idea of owning a kindle or anything of the sort. I'd hate to think of my children growing up not knowing what a real book is.
I love the feel of paper as I turn the page, the weight of the book and how sometimes it can be used to hide me. I lose myself in them.
Currently I'm re-reading Wish Me Dead by Helen Grant for the 5th time. It is basically like a German Death Note. I love it.

 

Reading's good when it's a book I want to read. I do enjoy reading them though.

 

Reading is fun. I love to read a good book. If I didn't like to read then I would probably think that the Harry Potter movies were better than the books.

 

I like to read but I don't just read any book . . . sometimes I wish I was a bibliophile though . . . I would know a lot more than I do now. People who know me wouldn't believe it but if I wanted to I could read an entire Harry Potter book in a day (I get into it) they mostly just think I am the guy who doesn't read and probably hates books . . . truth is I love books, just don't have the open source to be a bibliophile ^_^

 

I don't see what's wrong with e-readers like the Kindle. It's just a medium, the contents remain the same, it still contains the same words, evokes the same emotions. I don't believe a reading experience is heightened just because it's on paper. I don't care if my books come on a printed page, digital screen or narrated audio. It's all the same to me.

 

What the hell's a "nook" is it a cake of some sort?

I read for both classes and enjoyment. Unfortunately, I'm a huge sci-fi/ fantasy nut so right now I'm just ripping through all the battletech and Raymond E. Feist books I can get a hold of.

 

I sneak novels left and right out my classrooms, they are on display and yet hardly does anyone glance at them. I don't ask permission but I would like to call it a borrow, I do not steal I place them right where they were later. It is not as if anyone notices me, not the book thief. They are below the reads that I would prefer, being in 8th grade, lowly stuff. Aimed towards teens and whatnot. So hungry I will devour even the teen fantasies, desperate times call for desperate measures.

Most of my time spent in class is spent reading. Oblivious to the world surrounding.