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OFFICIAL BOOK READING THREAD - REDIRECT IF YOU FIND ANY UNOFFICIAL TO HERE Anonymous Mon Oct 28 10:49:56 2013 No.4221114 [DELETED]

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Where
When
How do you read books?
Do you have any book quirks?

Book reading General

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 10:52:56 2013 No.4221121 Read books publicly, i tape paper from outside so no one can know what i read. Rainy days are good for reading for atmosphere. Also if possible i'll most definitely have strong black tea with it. Only physical books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:07:56 2013 No.4221155 I read Nietzsche in toilet, where he belongs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:24:18 2013 No.4221187 >>4221114 >How do you read books? What kind of question is that? "Oh I read them backwards"

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:30:18 2013 No.4221199 >>4221187 >What king of question is that? Back at you

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:31:17 2013 No.4221202 >>4221199 If you don't know what "What kind of question is that?" means then why are you asking him it back?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:32:17 2013 No.4221203 >>4221202 You really can't read between the lines

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:37:17 2013 No.4221211 Anywhere. Whenever. Usually sitting, on laying on my bed. No, I try to keep my books mint condition.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:38:17 2013 No.4221214 >>4221211 >lying >reading ewww

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 11:47:17 2013 No.4221228 >>4221203 Nice try but no, you're an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:03:06 2013 No.4221244 >>4221228 That's the irony of retards, they never understand anything above them so by definition you'll always think like that. Enjoy mediocrity

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:05:06 2013 No.4221248
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>Where
Home. In a chair.
>When
When I have time. I'm trying to transition into having a specific time to set aside for reading, though.
>How do you read books?
Straight through. But as a kid with OCD, I did read every book backwards once I read it forward. >>4221187
>Do you have any book quirks?
I'll break the book's spine before I read it; and as I hate dog-earing and writing in books, I always have a bookmark and a piece of paper to write down pages/quotes/passages that I like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:08:06 2013 No.4221253 Marina is so hot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:09:06 2013 No.4221255 >>4221244 See the image in >>4221252

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:11:06 2013 No.4221260 >>4221248 How long were the books you read backwards and did reading backwards give you any special insight?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:12:05 2013 No.4221261 >>4221248 Why the FUCK do you break a book's spine?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:19:06 2013 No.4221275 >where home, or preferably the library, but i'll also take the laundromat and airports. >when whenever >How with my eyes. >Do you have any book quirks? no.

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:21:06 2013 No.4221280

>>4221260
I only did it when I was around 6 to 8 years old, so they were mostly children's books and short story collections. No special insight. It was just frustrating.

>>4221261
It's tiring trying not to break the spine when reading a book, so I just go ahead and get it over with. I hate when a book feels tight and can't lay open on its own.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:29:05 2013 No.4221289 >>4221275 you're no fun, possibly autistic

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:35:06 2013 No.4221302 >where home on the couch, outside sometimes >when anytime >how physical books if that's what ou mean, usually from the library >any quirks i like to rub pages between my thumb and index finger

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 12:55:08 2013 No.4221330

where:
i used to travel by bus and train, so there i read. nowadays only when i'm at home in the bed or when i'm waiting for something like a doctor or whatever
when:
see above
how do you read books:
mostly lying or sitting on a bed
book quirks:
if it counts: i love books with something 3d popping out on the cover, like the authors name, blood drops, different paints and everytime i hold such a book in my hands my fingers fumble with whatever is going on on the cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 14:09:28 2013 No.4221463 >>4221121 >i tape paper from outside so no one can know what i read >implying anyone cares what you're reading

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 14:20:28 2013 No.4221483
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>>4221114
>Where
train, university, at home in bed, at home outside when sunny, in cafés, riding the metro

>When

at home when its silent enough to, elsewhere obviously when i happen to be in those places

>How do you read books?

left to right, top to bottom. bound>paperback; ebooks are for subhumans. also relatively fast (not speedreading technics fast, just naturally got faster by doing it a lot; around 50, 60 pages per hour).
I read them naively, sometimes I use a pen to underline interesting, intriguing, relevant (to whatever) or quotable passages and write the page# and short description in the front for easy access. Non-Fiction I read slower, with more notes, while its quiet around me.

>Do you have any book quirks?
I have a book fetish. Sometimes I take a book out of my shelf, I let my thumb slide through the pages, listening to the sound, enjoying the haptic sensation, thinking about it. Looking at my shelf gives me frission. When finishing a book I also smell it, just look at it, caress it and sometimes even kiss it once or twice. Its really weird. Especially with good books ending, like Brothers Karamazov, I get the feeling like a good friend died when I finish it. The mentioned procedure helps me let go. I actually really get depressed sometimes after finishing books. I also get depressed when there is no book im *currently reading*

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 14:32:28 2013 No.4221515 >>4221463 lel basement dweller

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 14:48:28 2013 No.4221540

>Where
Home, work, to and from, everywhere really.
>When
When I'm not on the internet, watching something, or have someone to talk to.
>How do you read books?
One at a time.
>Do you have any book quirks?
I get a thrill seeing notes people leave in books that I check out from the library or buy used.

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 15:13:03 2013 No.4221594

>>4221540
>I get a thrill seeing notes people leave in books that I check out from the library or buy used.
>that I check out from the library

really? personally I am highly offended when people write notes in to books they do not own. I really love reading them in used books, but writing in library books rustles my jimmies hard.

>HERE LET ME JUST PUT MY NOTES INTO THE LIBRARIES GUTENBERG BIBLE CAUSE IM SO FUCKING IMPORTANT WOOHOO

if i was the stalin of my personal soviet utopia, I'd have everyone of these people quartered, teared, feathered, shot and hanged at the same time.

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 15:14:04 2013 No.4221595

>Where
Home mostly, but I like to go to a coffee shop nearby when I want to people-watch as well. Gotta love small KY towns.

>When
Anytime, mostly in the evenings though.

>How
Pretty much straight-through. I don't really take notes or think about what i'm reading critically (unless it's a philosophy text or something). I'm more or less along for the ride.

>Quirks
None particularly.

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 15:16:03 2013 No.4221597

>Where
The subway or bus. On my couch, tucked into a blanket. In bed.
>When
Mostly before I go to sleep. Otherwise during the day if I'm commuting.
>How do you read books?
I read more non-fiction so I look at the table of contents and I bounce around the book depending on what catches my interest first. But only the chapters are stand-alone.
>Do you have any book quirks?
Not really. If a passage stands out I usually type it out in a notepad file but that's time consuming so I don't do it often.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 15:18:21 2013 No.4221600 >>4221594 Seconded. Except I hate them in used books too.

Anonymous Mon Oct 28 16:18:35 2013 No.4221706

>>4221114

>Where

In bed

>When

Evening, morning

>How do you read books?

On mobile phone, physical, eReader

>Do you have any book quirks?

when books don't stay flat it's annoying, so instead of cutting the spine I photograph the pages and read them on electronic reader which is always flat

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 16:21:36 2013 No.4221717 >>4221114 >Do you have any book quirks? I inaugurate every new book by opening it the first time at the middle putting the penis inside it and then squeezing it gently with the two halves of the book. Then I can start using it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 28 16:24:36 2013 No.4221722 >>4221121 >Read books publicly, i tape paper from outside so no one can know what i read. Did people come up to you and use the book title on the cover as a conversation starter?

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 06:13:40 2013 No.4223622
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>>4221463
>Anonymous 10/28/13(Mon)10:52 No.4221121Replies: >>4221463 >>4221722
>Read books publicly, i tape paper from outside so no one can know what i read.
>Rainy days are good for reading for atmosphere.
>Also if possible i'll most definitely have strong black tea with it.
>Only physical books.
>>4221722

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 06:19:40 2013 No.4223636 Where: >at home or on iphone When >usually before bed How do you read books? >in horizontal position Do you have any book quirks? >i like to rub the corners of the cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:13:45 2013 No.4224518 >>4223636 You are a very bad reader, i wish only the worst to you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:15:17 2013 No.4224523 where >bed >bus when >late at night >travelling interstate how >ereader quirks >if i think it is predictable or get bored of the premise i stop reading

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:17:18 2013 No.4224529 >>4224518 I took your disappointment in deep consideration. I will now rethink my life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:18:18 2013 No.4224532 >>4224529 Glad i made a difference.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:19:18 2013 No.4224538 >>4224532 do me do me >>4224523

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:25:18 2013 No.4224549

>>4224538
>bed
>bus
>late
>traveling
>ereader

So un-patrician.
>if i think it is predictable or get bored of the premise i stop reading

GODNOGODNO
Consider killing an important political figure so you can be secretly tortured by the CIA in a dungeon in middle east, slow decaying life you will be.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:26:17 2013 No.4224551 >>4224549 u got trollled

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:27:17 2013 No.4224553 >>4224551 no you got trolled :^)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:29:17 2013 No.4224557 >>4224553 i only started reading a week ago trying to shift my hobby from pc games to reading it's hard y'know i try and read lolita so many times but always end up fapping

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:29:17 2013 No.4224558 >>4224553 Nice save.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:30:17 2013 No.4224561 >>4224558 You too

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:31:17 2013 No.4224564 >>4224557 Why don't you just watch Porn?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:31:17 2013 No.4224566 >>4224564 nabokov's prose are much prettier

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 14:34:17 2013 No.4224571

>where
usually at home but I can't seem to read if someone is watching tv in the house, I swear they're deaf
yet when I'm on a bus and there's noise I have no issue

>when
I like to read at least an hour a day minimum so whenever I have time

>how
left to right top to bottom

>quirks
not really other than I prefer to spent 3x the amount on an old edition of a book rather than a new one with an ugly cover.. and if I do buy a new book I hate having to break the spine it feels vile

Anonymous Tue Oct 29 15:20:17 2013 No.4224652

>Where
On the bus or at home
>When
When I have free time, usually 9PM and later
>How
Physical copies because I enjoy having a collection I can display
>Quirks
I dont think so, I just try to keep the book in good condition

I just got back into reading recently. I got LoTR, The Hobbit, Wealth of Nations and The Divine Comedy so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 22:09:53 2013 No.4225795 Dune, its good stuff. It is my 10th read of the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 29 23:31:57 2013 No.4225916 >Where on my bed >When at night or during quiet afternoon >How do you read books? lying face up, head propped up with pillows >Do you have any book quirks? feels like the experience of reading a book varies depending on what position I'm reading it in.

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