many people do not read book daily, few of them read only newspaper headline, few of them only read the astrology news, few of them only read sports news, few of them read only articles, few of them only read the cartoons and laugh and share it with their family members, few of them only look and turn the pages of the newspaper and keeps on the table, few of them use that paper for cover the book, few of them sold the gatthered papers of the month.

about magzine : many people read magzine stories, many of them use magzine cuttings for making the craft work, many of them just keep it on the table in the front room, many throw away, many keeps it for a long period, many of them do not share with their neighbours any kind of magzines, many read in the night, many read in early in the morning.

novels and books :many read in the library, in the home, in school, on sunday, in office, in travel (train/plain/bus), many people torn the pages from the book and gathers information (they do not worry about others), many people just keeps the huge books in the front hall of their home in the book-shelf. many expend the huge amount on books and novels every month, many read 1 page a day, many read 1 paragraph a day.

in short the styles of every individual in reading is different one like different faces in this world.

what do you do, with books, magzines, novels, newspapers etc ?

sunil

Well, I just started school. I read two chapters last night. I'll continue to read the same two chapters for the next few days. I'm a gluton for punishment, plus, it helps me learn the material.

When I was in high school, I would read 7-10 books a week. Now if I get through 2 a week I'm doing well.

Magazines: I have a lot of subscriptions, which get divided into two categories, ones that can be read during football games and ones that can't. The former pile up during the offseason but diminish quickly during the season. The latter I work through during meals and occasionally (when they've really piled up) by special effort.

Oh, and my science fiction magazines are actually in a third category. I read those during my lunch breaks at work when I'm not either on here or working Sudoku puzzles.

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Don't read this wrong but...I am usually reading 2 or 3 books at the same time.

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Just the one. Unless it is really flimsy.

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Depends on the book, what else I'm doing at the time, and my state of mind. At times when I'm actually doing needlework like I'm supposed to (long story), I read less, on account of it's hard to read and do needlework at the same time. (I've only got two eyes!) For some reason, much as I love Stephen King, it takes me a long time to read one of his books the first time. Conversely, I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in about six hours. Likewise Thud!, once I got the chance to sit down and read it. Obviously, children's books are much easier to read. So are most of my trivia books and grammar books. The history books take a bit longer.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

The short answer is, at least one book a day - but I don't finish one book a day, I just read a few pages or chapters or whatever.

I have four school books for the two classes that I'm taking.

One recreation fiction book that I'm about halfway through, but haven't picked up in a week.

I have a lot of pop science books that I bought a few months ago. I've been making pretty good progress going through them (one at a time obviously) and even got my dad to read two of them. I read a few pages each night before going to bed (gives me something to dream about) unless I'm just too tired.

I have several technical books that I have to read in order to stay current at my job. For example, I have the OReilly CSS book at my desk. I already know CSS of course, but if I get stuck (or bored) while programming, I pick up the book and read a bit. I always learn or refresh my memory on something.

I subscribe to two magazines, Discover and Sky and Telescope. S&T runs out soon and I'm not going to renew. Discover though, I really enjoy. This is probably more info than you wanted, but I just keep it in the bathroom and read a page or two while I'm on the can. LOL! We also get lots of computer magazine subscriptions at work so I flip through those during lunch.

I don't read newspapers. I check out a few RSS feeds in the morning to see what the big stories are, and websites like slashdot and fark to get more obscure stuff.

I also don't watch much TV. I watch netflix movies when they come, so about one a week. And I watch the Science channel all night on Tuesday because that's when they do all the astronomy programs. I don't watch drama shows like "24" anymore and I hate reality TV. I do watch Southpark though.

And of course, I have to read the love letters that Candy sends me, but I don't write back because I don't want to encourage her.

If you've got an iPod, you can get audio books here: http://www.audible.com/

They are around $20 or $30 usually.

Oh, we've got audio books aplenty--my boyfriend's dyslexic. But I tend to miss crucial details in audio books, given that I'm much more of a visual person, as far as information intake. There are books we've listened to a dozen or more times in the nearly three years we've been together that I'm still missing important plot points of. (And no, no iPod; can't afford one.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I typically have 2 books in daily reading at any given time, plus 2 monthly magazines--QST (ham radio) and Consumer Reports.

I thought that when I retired two years ago that I would get more reading done and reduce the queue of purchased, but unread, books. But it's grown, not shrunk. I think I'm spending some of the additional free time buying additional books instead of reading them! I'm a semi-compulsive book buyer, and I suspect that many on this forum share that "disease."

My heyday was as a kid -- had a lot less $ to spend, but books were cheaper, especially used books. St. Louis (my childhood home) had an annual bookfair for charity -- books were collected all year and sold during a week-long frenzy staged in a large hall. Starting prices were 5 cents to $3, with a few new books a bit higher. On the last day, everything went for half price. I usually managed to buy 30-40 books with my pocket money. I had a pretty good library by the time I got to high school, and still had every book I ever bought until 1997, when we started downsizing our home as part of pre-retirement planning. And I still miss the ones I gave away.....

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I read about 4-10 books/week, depending on which books. Usually, it's about a book a day.

I'm in the 2-4 books at a time category, though this board has reduced me from finishing one a day to one every 3-4 days.

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...I don't have time to read many books. I've been working on A History or Mechanics since June...

Between picking up roadside garbage, budgeting a prom I may not attend, finishing all of my homework (I despise English, and we have to turn in a poem and a *philosophical* essay each week. I was turning in science reports for a few weeks, then the teacher said I couldn't any more... ), my science fair project, and making money by freelance-creating duct tape stuff, I've only got time for about once chapter a week of A History of Mechanics. Though, I do have to do a bunch of research in other books to understand that one chapter. Ah, anything for physics...

I do read up in magazines like Science News, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Bird Talk, and Time whenever I get my subscription in the mail. My magazines are the reason I have to freelance my taping abilities. Mom only pays for Bird Talk (we have parrots).

Oh, and about once a month, I'll find a comic book with neat pictures that I scan to make avatars and such and post on my website...

--hipster

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that's fine thanks you all, you are stick with the concept of reading something that's very cool and funtastic, but how many of you can recall the reading of the day is it 50%, is it 30% or 100% you can recall? i have observed that who are participated in the drama and if they are reading some diffrent book, they can recall the book story or the material upto 80% correct.

what you call this recalling ? even i have observed some time many people always keep their head down in the book to avoid others ? what you say this people ? and many students prefer the guide or short gist of the book instead of reading book for a particular subject study, what you assume about their personality !

sunil

I usually read one a week. Not that I'm not a reader, I own at least two dozen books, all of which have binders wearing out from extensive use. Its just that since getting heavy into online gaming, I prefer more interactive environments for day to day entertainment.

When I hit a book store, I almost always buy two, because if I'm in that store before 4pm, the first book will be done before I go to bed. The next one usually lasts a few days because I really only read when I'm waiting out the downtime imposed by MMORPGs I play.

Other than that, I also read industry articles in various architectural magazines and related publications. The NFPA journal is one of the better ones. I could write a summary monologue worthy of Vonnegut from the stories written about recent major blazes in their quarterly reports.

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I'm keep being amazed that people can live like that.
I just did a quick count, I'm surrounded by about 600 books at the moment.

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600 books surrounded with a Henrik, !! , that's a world record.

I've owned more in the past, but throughout my teens, when my family life went to hell in a handbasket, I was moving a lot. Massive numbers of paperbacks do not an easy thing to carry make.

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If you leave out the bathroom and the kitchen, the average room in our house probably has 600 books.

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I was just counting the books in the 3.5m×4.5m room I'm sitting in

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Novels:
I can read a book in a day but It's rare that I do that(like if a new Harry Potter comers out).

I usally don't read for a while and then suddenly read 4 books(like the rama series).
I own the 8 Harry potter books and 2 John Marsdon novels.

I'm going through an Arthur C. Clarke Phase atm
Before it was Doglass adams
Before that it was... actually I can't remember
But my other two favorate authors are
John Marsdon (Loved the tommorow series)
I own- "while i live" and "incurable"
J.K. Rowling

N.F
I ocasonaly read but usally buy these
I own the below
Recent titles include:
Why does the toast always land butter side down: The science of Murphy's Law - Richard Robinson Very interesting- I learnt a lot about the way the mind works.
Great MythConceptions - Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Cleared up some lesser well know myths, and was entertaining too!
DisInformation - Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Same as above reallyGuniuiss Book of Records 2006 Nice new layout- got this from an auntie for cristmas.

Bastronomy: [oh yeah as if I'm going to write out that subtitle, what was the BA thinking?]- Phil Plait.
Ah the good book, I read this quite a while ago so it wasn't really recent. It was a great read though .

Beyond Earth: Mapping the universe(Yet to read)

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I used to follow Francie Nolan's philosophy where I read one book a day (kudos to those who know where that's from!). Then I hit college and don't average nearly that much!

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You went through a phase of reading his books, but you can't spell his name properly? For shame!

I asked my boyfriend recently if he wanted me to read something aloud to him (he enjoys that), and he asked what I had to read. This question dumbfounded me, and I had to point out the literally hundreds of books just in the genres he likes in this apartment--and at that, I don't have nearly enough books for my taste. (And, yes, I've got pretty good recall of what I read, though I may not necessarily recall exactly where I read it. This is why the citations for some of my knowledge can be a little erratic.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I always have at least three books on the go these days, not including others I reference about things in them. Due to pressures of work and family, it usually takes me about a week to finish a book. I'm pretty much always reading Lord Of The Rings.

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many time college student reads the book like a novel, they just go on and go on, many of them read in sliping condition, later they found slept instead of reading, and if we ask them, have you completed the yesterda's book? they replied they have pretty close the book with a great sleep yesterday. many students read the front page and the last page of the book and stops.!

few people are of a mentality that they gathered the book in their book shelf untouched, only dust touches that book. (what you will say such personality).

many people buy the second or third hand book for reading, and mostly many type of drawings can be seen in such books, because whenever they think about the paragraph in the book they just paint some design in the blank space available in the book. many people buy only new book everymonth, and many not buy even one new book in a year !

Infact, reading makes man wise, the brains can be mold in the discipline order to perform the task, but we are forgetting this. Henrik, the librabrarian i found always seats in front of some 5000, 10000 books, but when i ask one book's gist he forgot to explain. in short the assumption may be draw here that many students are relent on the short notes or guides available readily in the market, instead of reading the book.

sunil

Same here (in terms of reading a book a day, at least). I've never had enough time to do it since I started college, except on vacations or when I'm sick, and the latter is best avoided.

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Ask me about just about any of the books I have and I'll give you a short summary of the plot and the motivations of the major characters. Plus minute details of the cool tech.

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I must be getting old. I can do that for books I read in high school, but not for ones I read a a couple of months ago.

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I can't do that for most of the books I read--at least the tech part. Not much tech to Anne of Green Gables or The Hero and the Crown, you know?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"