[MiddleMan]

Please exclude books you have to read for school.

Do you read? Give me a recommendation. Thanks.

[kerupi]

Richard Preston - The Hot Zone
Outbreak the movie but in a book.

[Phaze5ive]

How some of you guys and gals manage to read 25+ books a year is amazing.

[colloquy]

Definitely 25+. My reading speed is... really fast.

Um... what kind of books do you like to read?

[sirce]

Considering that i buy 2-3 books a month that I read as soon as possible, I can only say 25+. And that's excluding the double amount of e-books that I download.

[Swtess]

I haven't read a single book in years. I'm too cheap to buy, reading a bunch of text on a computer screen hurts my eyes and I have quite a bit of fines on my library card. Such a downer, I rather be reading novels than textbooks

[terrorist]

Definitely 25+. My reading speed is... really fast.

Um... what kind of books do you like to read?

do you actually retain most of the things you read?

[colloquy]

do you actually retain most of the things you read?

Yep. As an example, I finished reading 'Atlas Shrugged' in 8th grade in four days and took a test for reading credit. It runs on my father's side of my family, my aunt has the same ability. Plus, I've loved reading since a young age.

Of course, it takes me a little longer if I need to highlight paragraphs and take notes, but that's a given. Unfortunately, I can't say that I read the huge quantities that I used to with college.

[boka]

Does skimming through journal articles count? If not, then I might read, on average, one book a year due to borrowing one from my sister for travel reading.

The last book I was reading was Life of Pi and I stopped half way due to distractions.

[Jaeho]

Honestly? 1 to 4.
The only book I've read this year is... errrmmm... Twilight. lmao I wanted to see what the fuss was. It was like reading fanfiction, so I don't even know if that counts as a real book.

I used to read all the time when I was younger. Goosebumps ftw.

[fresh]

I think about 10-25. For me, there are times when I go on a reading spree and read like 2 books per week for a while, but then later, I don't read a single book for couple months.

[tuanbao]

I read all four Twilight book this year !!!! it was great .

[kerupi]

Yep. As an example, I finished reading 'Atlas Shrugged' in 8th grade in four days and took a test for reading credit. It runs on my father's side of my family, my aunt has the same ability. Plus, I've loved reading since a young age.

Of course, it takes me a little longer if I need to highlight paragraphs and take notes, but that's a given. Unfortunately, I can't say that I read the huge quantities that I used to with college.

coolloquy, do you remember your very first book? I enjoy reading a lot, mine was "Flip" about a horse who faced his fear of jumping over a farm ditch I remember and still own my first books from the book club from the age of 5 hehe

but I think the most I would have read compared to now was back in high school, I remember reading mills & boons etc in box loads my best friend would read and hide hers under her bed like it was a porn mag

jaeho, yeah that was like me too, to have a lookie, I'm an Anne Rice fan so I was like hmmmmmmmmm my family and I will sit there competing I wasn't a fan of her writing in "Twilight" and "New Moon" but I did enjoy "Eclipse" that would be my favourite of her series

boka, nup! they don't count because that sounds like work ( just kidding )

sirce, the ebook phenomena, although a fan, is there a device yet, which is comfortable like a book yet we can plug in a small usb disk etc to read our pdfs? I reckon that would be cool, if it exists, err please inform the ignorant (me) thanks!

my reading habits
I usually have a book at night, book in my bag for the bus, book in the glove box and in the toilet (favourite place to read ) too finishing times of each book vary though, take a week to a month to finish some, I usually visit secondhand bookstores, purchase a couple of books not necessarily read them straight away but store them away for reading later

[Nvy_hearts]

I am definitely a book nerd for I buy around 3-5 books a month and it usually lasts me for the day and there are so many good authors out there and so many interesting subjects to read about...I just can't get enough. If I could live in a bookstore, I would probably be very happy!

[iridescent]

Um... what kind of books do you like to read?

^ This would help

Easily 25+ but that's not saying much when I used to read 30 books in a month without even thinking about it.

[Aziraphale]

my reading habits
I usually have a book at night, book in my bag for the bus, book in the glove box and in the toilet (favourite place to read ) too finishing times of each book vary though, take a week to a month to finish some, I usually visit secondhand bookstores, purchase a couple of books not necessarily read them straight away but store them away for reading later

I'm somewhat like that too I have a book in my bag so that I can read it on the train or something, and I sometimes read in the bathroom too Since I started working, I haven't had as much time for reading, so I guess I'm in the 10-24 range. I'm trying to read more, though. It's so nice to relax and while the time away with a good book.

I am definitely a book nerd for I buy around 3-5 books a month and it usually lasts me for the day and there are so many good authors out there and so many interesting subjects to read about...I just can't get enough. If I could live in a bookstore, I would probably be very happy!

I wanna live in a bookstore too!

[aval-zo]

in the 25+ range before I went to uni. Now, I'm lucky to get through a book a month.

[Pogichinoy]

Around 1-4, I'm captured by Harry Potter.

[Lie]

I have to read about 4-5 books a week for my program (I'm a grad student with a concentration in 20th-century Brit. and American Lit.), plus a significant amount of ancillary reading (i.e. texts of criticism, author biographies, etc.), so by the time I get done with all of that I don't really care to do much reading for fun. Over the summer I read Peter and Wendy and Gulliver's Travels though, both of which I've always been familiar with but never actually read--that was fun. I also generally distance myself from reading for fun because the entire time I'm reading something I don't have to read I feel guilty about not using the time to do my own writing, so it's not all that pleasurable for me.

[balhae]

To me, the question should actually be "how many 'pages' do you read in a year..?"
I think about 20~30 pages??

I hate myself for not liking books. I wish I loved to read. If I did, my writing wouldn't be as horrible and I wouldn't be suffering in college... Someone help! What should I do??