Walking and reading.

[cadhla]

I read. I read a lot. I have long since mastered the ancient art of 'walking and reading at the same time', largely because it means I don't wind up in a position where I have fifteen pages left in the book and I can either carry it to work the next day or put it on my dresser to read later and then forget about it until there's this ginormous

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[k_crow]

*grin* I don't know how many times I've had people exclaim at me for walking and reading at the same time. From, "How do you do that without running into things?!", to "Watch out, you'll trip on the stairs!", and the ever-popular, "Are you insane(/nuts/a freak/etc.)?!"

I'm with you on the re-reading so I don't run out of things to read. It's incredible how grumpy I get when I've recent read, or re-read everything I'm in the mood to read at that point, and I don't have quite enough spare funds to go find something new just yet.

'Course, that's what other bibliophile friends are for. ;) That, and endless discussion/geekery about various series. Runnerwolf is constantly amazed at how long I can discuss books with others, and how much I get into those discussions.

[wendyzski]

There are these cool places that you can go and they will let you take books home with you for a while - for FREE! They are called "Libraries", and I highly recommend them ")

[k_crow]

*blush* True, and I do use those as well. But libraries haven't been as good in general at recommending new authors that I would enjoy. The one major exception to this was the school librarian who pointed me at fantasy and science fiction when I'd read all of the mythology books in our elementary school.

[kyrielle]

Heee. I enter the books I like into Amazon, let it try to sell me things, and then go see if my library has the things Amazon tried to sell me.

Library fines

[wyld_dandelyon]

But it's really not cost effective (to say nothing of embarassing) if you don't get back to the library with your borrowed stack of books until you owe the library more than it would have cost you to buy the thing!

It's harder to re-read what you want when you want that way too.

Libraries were much more useful when they were in the building I had to be in all day just about every day (i.e. school) than now.