What Kind of Book Reader Are you?

annis · Post by **annis** » Sat September 1st, 2012, 3:47 am

I'm a Cross-Under, Sharer, Sleepy Bedtime Reader, sometimes Delayed Onset Reader #1 and always an All-the Timer/Compulsive/Voracious/Anything Goes Reader.

Definitely not a Book Buster- I spend quite a bit of time picking up my husband's lying-wide-open face-down books and tucking them up with a bookmark in the right place. I'm a librarian, dammit!

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Sat September 1st, 2012, 5:26 am

They don't have a category for me. I'd have to call myself a lusty eyes-bigger-than-my-stomach glutton: there's so much I want to read, I always have more than one book going at a time and usually finish most of what I start, but I'm always struck by the tragedy of there being only 24 hours in a day. Wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to read 350 pages in an hour and feel as fully immersed in the story (or information) as if I were reading more slowly?

laktor · Post by **laktor** » Sat September 1st, 2012, 6:53 am

I'm definitely a chronological reader. No doubt about it! Very slow and steady, and while reading one book, which usually takes a while, I browse bookstores and occasionally pick up another book. I usually have 3 to 5 books waiting in some kind of order, to read.

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Sat September 1st, 2012, 3:31 pm

I'm so many of these. I was a Cross-under as a child, and I still am at times. I'm a definite Bookophile and Delayed Onset #1. I've got a bit of Chronological, Multitasker, with a touch of Sleepy Bedtime. I'm also an All-the-Timer/Compulsive/Voracious/Anything Goes Reader, and a bit of a sharer.

That may make me the "It's Complicated" reader.

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Sun September 2nd, 2012, 3:37 am

I'm also an All-the-Timer/Compulsive/Voracious/Anything Goes Reader

Yes, I can identify with this one! The article left out a lot of important categories.

rebecca · Post by **rebecca** » Sun September 2nd, 2012, 4:22 am

The Bookophile/The Book-Buster/The Multi-Tasker

If I see a book that looks halfway interesting I'll buy it

I can't help it-I'm a book addict and I admit it(should I say the serenity prayer?

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*hangs my head in shame*:o I have been known to use sticky tape and try to keep the binding together if I loved the book and can't buy a new one and I simply can't throw it away...I really, really cannot!!! But the books I adore I am very careful with....I treat them with great reverence

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When it comes to summer time I often find my mind goes walkabout in the heat(I also faint

in the heat). So I will mix my reading up. Big heavy stuff in the morning to a light biography at night. And if my mind really cannot concentrate

I then watch my fave DVD's) It is one of the reasons why I HATE summer...I sometimes can't read

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But as for the guy who even though he loves the book he is reading and yet he never finishes it....OMG!!!!

How could he! I have book outrage here! He needs professional help from a bookpsychologist

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Bec

Alisha Marie Klapheke · Post by **Alisha Marie Klapheke** » Mon September 3rd, 2012, 10:37 pm

I'm a cross under bookophile for sure. I'd also have to second Margaret's first comment. I want to read it all and I want to read it now. So why am I on here??? Later!