08-24-2010, 05:07 PM | #16 | |
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I don't consider someone who reads less than a book a month a reader. That would be like calling someone who has less than a drink a month a drinker. Seems to me it has to be more of a habit than that. |
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These stats seemed to suggest much less than 50% would fit your "reader" definition, but where in the 1%-50% we get to 12 per annum is not clear. Perhaps the main point is that we are the elite Be afraid. |
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08-24-2010, 06:18 PM | #21 |
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I edit for a living and support all forms of reading, but downtime (if you can manage it) serves a purpose:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/te...5brain.html?hp |
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I read while brushing my teeth, I read while walking down the hallway, I read while cooking dinner (although Iʻm more cautious with the reader than I was with a pbook), I read while watching TV and eating dinner (yeah, my mom always wondered about that one). I read a *lot* compared to every single person I know irl. No one I know reads like me (except maybe my mom, but she does her daily hygiene without a book. I canʻt seem to manage... oh and my 10yo son is turning out like me). I even read while walking around the track (ipod touches and blackberries are great for that... I donʻt recommend that for nature paths or highway walking).
I rarely, however, read in airports. I try, I get started, but I get so distracted people-watching. After all, I am a psychologist |
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I suspect that various experts and MR posters alike use the word "reader" when they mean "book reader".
For example, someone who doesn't read 12 books a year may not be what you call a reader, but what if he subscribed to one or two daily newspapers (say, his local paper and USA Today or the Wall Street Journal)? Would you say that he is not a reader because he doesn't read many books? I go to the McDonald's every morning for a cup of coffee. It has three copies of our local paper seven days a week, and all three are always being read. I doubt that many of the folks there are book readers. And in regard to the airport terminals, I find the volume they have their TVs set at is so loud, I can't read even though I want to! |
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I find it hard to read on BART, the train wheel screech is way noisy, even with headphones muffling the noise.
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Reading the instructions on a oatmeal box doesn't count as "reading" for me, either. Neither does scanning the time-honored grafitti on the bathroom wall. |
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I don't think that 26 men part sounds right.
Heck I know of 3, and thats in North Dakota! Been to a Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention lately? Our local one used to run to 500-600 people, over half of them men, and 90% of them read regularly, some of stacks of books much bigger than mine. 1% of the total population, perhaps. Last edited by GhostHawk; 08-25-2010 at 04:37 PM. |
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