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WTF IS WRONG WITH MY INTERNETS? I don't know, but it's pissing me off. Anyone? It's all the laptops in the house, which are wireless. I've called AT&T twice, and they have me do this thing where I type in my IP address as a URL, and so a 'System Setup Wizard' thingie...and I think reset the modem? Needless to say, the Internets keep dying! It is annoying!
Paperback, hardback or trade paperback?
Trade paperbacks, although I get horrified when dents/folds occur when I take them places with me. Still, hardcovers usually feel too awkward to me, while I hate the cheapness of mass market paperbacks.
Amazon or brick and mortar?
Brick and mortar. I just love walking around reading book titles. I also like to be able to flip through the book - what's the typeset like? Are the chapters long or short? What other books is it next to and why? I really love just finding random interesting books. I've taken to walking around bookstores with pen and paper so as to write down titles/authors, so I can go to the library.
Barnes & Noble or Borders
Borders carries more manga, but the Borders closest to me absolutely sucks at life at getting books stocked and on the shelves. Overall, I'd say that Borders has a more academic feel to it, while Barnes & Noble feels more "homey." I also tend to trust the employee recommendations written on papers taped to shelves in Borders moreso than Barnes & Noble.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
*is horrified* Bookmark! Don't wreck pretty books!
Favorite place to read?
Oh, man. I read everywhere - buses, while walking, at work, in bed, in class, on the couch, at Antoine's. I guess my favorite is when I'm in comfortable pajamas, under blankets, and in bed. I also like curling up on Antoine's couch with him and reading.
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
Having books in two bedrooms in two cities, and also constantly rearranging them - there is no order except for "manga" and "not manga." I try to have like-things together if I can. At home, my Star Wars books are all together, and for a while it was sci-fi together, fantasy together, and everything else all over the place. But then it got too hard. I consider "Alice in Wonderland" to be a classic, but also fantasy. Some things I wanted to keep by "childhood favorites," but they were sci-fi. My dream is to one day have my Austen novels by the Bronte ones, and the Chuck Palahniuk by Neal Stephenson. Maybe this summer I'll have time to sit and do that. Oh yeah! For a while, I had all of my books containing short story anthologies together, but that is no longer so.
Keep, throw away, or sell?
I kept everything until very recently. Then I discovered Bookmooch. Selling used books usually means you get paid crap, since there are sites like abebooks.com selling them for so cheap. But this way, I can get a book I really want in exchange for a book I really don't want. It's pretty sweet.
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep, and carefully remove whenever I read the book so as to keep it nice. Why would you toss it?!
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
I remove it to keep it nice.
Short story or novel?
I read mostly novels, but own lots of short stories because I appreciate the style of them a lot. Maybe I'm subconsciously hoping I'll kick myself in the ass and write some of my own.
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I like both, but I feel like Lemony Snicket's a bit young for me. I love Harry Potter, and always will.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Force self to read "just to the end of the chapter." "Okay, just to the end of the next chapter." "Okay, seriously, just to the end of this chapter."
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
Both?
Buy or borrow?
OMG I love buying books, used and new. Lately, though, my new kick has been to only acquire new books via Bookmooch, and otherwise use the library. It's been working for about a month so far, I think.
New or used?
I like both, but only buy used if in good condition.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
Book reviews are teh lame. Recommendations (usually via LJ Friends list or the internets at large) or personal browsing.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Tidy ending.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Umm. All?
Stand-alone or series?
I like both, although these days it seems like everything and its mom is a series. Capitalism.
Favorite series?
Redwall (before ghost-writers), Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, Priest, NANA, Animorphs, Emma, Runaways, Tales of the Otori, Little House on the Prairie
Favorite children's book?
Stinky Cheese Man, Little House on the Prairie (the first books I remember reading - I'm fairly certain I was reading these in kindergarten and first grade?)
Favorite YA book?
Uhhh....I suck at classifying books into genres. To Kill A Mockingbird? The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles, by Deborah Chester. Although, I have read them in about 5 years. Hopefully I still think they're good?
Favorite books read last year?
*pulls up Booklog* Fight Club (reread), Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Monsters, Please Save My Earth, Diary, NANA, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Sailor Moon, The Glass Castle, Jane Eyre, Hamlet (reread), Eden
Favorite books of all time?
I think I've mentioned them all already.
Least favorite book you finished last year?
Hmmm. Definitely things for class. 'Benito Cereno' and 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Wide Sargasso Sea, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Merry Wives of Windsor
What are you reading right now?
The Diary of Anne Frank: Revised & Critical Edition, The Mill on the Floss, anthology of short stories by Ray Bradbury, Henry VII by Shakespeare, Snow Crash, Evangeline, Saiyuki manga, Eden manga, and stories by some Scandinavian guy who wrote in the 19th century.
What are you reading next?
*checks syllabi* Alice in Wonderland, either Cymbeline or The Winter's Tale, stories by some sci-fi dude named Ellison, something by a different Scandinavian guy from the 19th century
Favorite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
Depends on the 11-year-old? To Kill A Mockingbird, I guess
Favorite book to reread?
Okay, comfort books? Little House on the Prairie (used to reread the entire series every year), Redwall books pre-Outcast (aka ghost writers), The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Evangeline (poem, but whatever)
Do you ever smell books?
YES.
Do you ever read primary source documents?
I'm a university student. So. Yes.
Paperback, hardback or trade paperback?
Trade paperbacks, although I get horrified when dents/folds occur when I take them places with me. Still, hardcovers usually feel too awkward to me, while I hate the cheapness of mass market paperbacks.
Amazon or brick and mortar?
Brick and mortar. I just love walking around reading book titles. I also like to be able to flip through the book - what's the typeset like? Are the chapters long or short? What other books is it next to and why? I really love just finding random interesting books. I've taken to walking around bookstores with pen and paper so as to write down titles/authors, so I can go to the library.
Barnes & Noble or Borders
Borders carries more manga, but the Borders closest to me absolutely sucks at life at getting books stocked and on the shelves. Overall, I'd say that Borders has a more academic feel to it, while Barnes & Noble feels more "homey." I also tend to trust the employee recommendations written on papers taped to shelves in Borders moreso than Barnes & Noble.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
*is horrified* Bookmark! Don't wreck pretty books!
Favorite place to read?
Oh, man. I read everywhere - buses, while walking, at work, in bed, in class, on the couch, at Antoine's. I guess my favorite is when I'm in comfortable pajamas, under blankets, and in bed. I also like curling up on Antoine's couch with him and reading.
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
Having books in two bedrooms in two cities, and also constantly rearranging them - there is no order except for "manga" and "not manga." I try to have like-things together if I can. At home, my Star Wars books are all together, and for a while it was sci-fi together, fantasy together, and everything else all over the place. But then it got too hard. I consider "Alice in Wonderland" to be a classic, but also fantasy. Some things I wanted to keep by "childhood favorites," but they were sci-fi. My dream is to one day have my Austen novels by the Bronte ones, and the Chuck Palahniuk by Neal Stephenson. Maybe this summer I'll have time to sit and do that. Oh yeah! For a while, I had all of my books containing short story anthologies together, but that is no longer so.
Keep, throw away, or sell?
I kept everything until very recently. Then I discovered Bookmooch. Selling used books usually means you get paid crap, since there are sites like abebooks.com selling them for so cheap. But this way, I can get a book I really want in exchange for a book I really don't want. It's pretty sweet.
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep, and carefully remove whenever I read the book so as to keep it nice. Why would you toss it?!
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
I remove it to keep it nice.
Short story or novel?
I read mostly novels, but own lots of short stories because I appreciate the style of them a lot. Maybe I'm subconsciously hoping I'll kick myself in the ass and write some of my own.
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I like both, but I feel like Lemony Snicket's a bit young for me. I love Harry Potter, and always will.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Force self to read "just to the end of the chapter." "Okay, just to the end of the next chapter." "Okay, seriously, just to the end of this chapter."
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
Both?
Buy or borrow?
OMG I love buying books, used and new. Lately, though, my new kick has been to only acquire new books via Bookmooch, and otherwise use the library. It's been working for about a month so far, I think.
New or used?
I like both, but only buy used if in good condition.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
Book reviews are teh lame. Recommendations (usually via LJ Friends list or the internets at large) or personal browsing.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Tidy ending.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Umm. All?
Stand-alone or series?
I like both, although these days it seems like everything and its mom is a series. Capitalism.
Favorite series?
Redwall (before ghost-writers), Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, Priest, NANA, Animorphs, Emma, Runaways, Tales of the Otori, Little House on the Prairie
Favorite children's book?
Stinky Cheese Man, Little House on the Prairie (the first books I remember reading - I'm fairly certain I was reading these in kindergarten and first grade?)
Favorite YA book?
Uhhh....I suck at classifying books into genres. To Kill A Mockingbird? The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles, by Deborah Chester. Although, I have read them in about 5 years. Hopefully I still think they're good?
Favorite books read last year?
*pulls up Booklog* Fight Club (reread), Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Monsters, Please Save My Earth, Diary, NANA, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Sailor Moon, The Glass Castle, Jane Eyre, Hamlet (reread), Eden
Favorite books of all time?
I think I've mentioned them all already.
Least favorite book you finished last year?
Hmmm. Definitely things for class. 'Benito Cereno' and 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Wide Sargasso Sea, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Merry Wives of Windsor
What are you reading right now?
The Diary of Anne Frank: Revised & Critical Edition, The Mill on the Floss, anthology of short stories by Ray Bradbury, Henry VII by Shakespeare, Snow Crash, Evangeline, Saiyuki manga, Eden manga, and stories by some Scandinavian guy who wrote in the 19th century.
What are you reading next?
*checks syllabi* Alice in Wonderland, either Cymbeline or The Winter's Tale, stories by some sci-fi dude named Ellison, something by a different Scandinavian guy from the 19th century
Favorite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
Depends on the 11-year-old? To Kill A Mockingbird, I guess
Favorite book to reread?
Okay, comfort books? Little House on the Prairie (used to reread the entire series every year), Redwall books pre-Outcast (aka ghost writers), The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Evangeline (poem, but whatever)
Do you ever smell books?
YES.
Do you ever read primary source documents?
I'm a university student. So. Yes.