When/where do you read?

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Walking to/from work. You have to pick someone walking roughly the same direction but slowly, and keep their heels at the top of your peripheral vision. Myself and a friend had an idea to form a reading train system that would shadow the bus-routes. We couldn't decide whether everyone pays a quid to the person in front (who has to watch where he's going, obviously), or whether there's a timer after which the person from the front goes to the back (or vice versa).

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

Andrew, I'd love to know who this 'friend' is, since hardly any of the people I know can negotiate a pathway even without a book in their hands.

I read everywhere. In a bed, on a chair, in the bath or on the stair. I read everywhere. And bloke and I read on the sofa in the evenings too. I don't think any hobby can be considered antisocial if the person whose society you enjoy most is doing it too.

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

D. Harvey, lady of enthusiasms.

Also, you twee get.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

i prefer to read while walking because the added energy i spend making sure i don't trip keeps the part of my mind that isn't concentrated on the book from getting distracted.

also, it's easier and doesn't slow you down as much as doing the crossword.

aneesa d, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

I just bumped into Andrew, on a pedestrian crossing in Islington. He wasn't reading.

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

On walking and reading:

What a brilliant idea. They could make a special lane along one side of a sidewalk (like a bike path or car-pool lane). The paint marking the width should be wide enough so that the reader can see it out of the corner of his/her eyes (thereby, not straying from the path). Occationally, there could be spots of different color paint along the edge, marking a right/left turn coming up.

The main problem I envision is people laying down sticks and things in the path, waiting for a walking-reader to trip. Which would be funny.

Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

where do you read?

cozwn, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

I work part-time and study part-time so theoretically I finish work at 1pm and come to the university library or postgraduate suite and get a good four or five hours reading done before home. In reality, I get a good three or four hours of ILXing done and then squeeze in ten pages.

Also I read in bed, where there is no ILX to be found, but plenty of "shit why am I tired after reading two pages".

Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Typically, I read after dinner, lying on the couch.

Aimless, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link

I read during my bus commutes to and from work, if it's overcast (flickering sun = carsick+headache) and I've got a front-facing seat (most days), during lunch at my desk (reading material propped up on the phone cord for the best angle), and I read or am read to after dinner most evenings in an ikea chair with feet up on an ottoman.

Jaq, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Everywhere. Bus, train, desk, on lines, in bed, on the fire escape while I smoke. Motion doesn't bother, noise doesn't distract.

The Lion's Mane Jellyfish, pictured here with its only natural predator (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link

these days, mostly at home (since i'm at home all the time anyways), mostly in the evening. when i have a break from school, i can do some reading in the afternoon, but now that i'm back in session, i have to spend that time on school reading (which doesn't count). i have to read at least a little bit right before i go to sleep at night, it helps my brain relax.

congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Mostly in my kitchen, in the hour or two before everyone wakes up (am currently on a great schedule!).

A severe accident, perhaps a dinosaur tragedy (CharlieS), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link

On the bus, at work during lunch break, in bed, all the time when nobody else is round (and since I work part-time, this is a couple of days a week).

When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link


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