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Dennis
Great Reader
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 Posted - 15 Mar 2011 : 11:46:47
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Originally posted by Brynweir
I can't read in motion - I get massive headaches. I wish I could do audiobooks, but I can't get the same things from a story I just hear. I do borrow them for the kids though. They love them.
Me, not headache. But I become teary-eyed. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 08:34:10
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I develop a new reading habit, though maybe not as weird as many that had been mentioned so far...
I take note of all the names [persons, places, races, baubles, etc] that sound quite interesting to me. It's part [and not the only reason] of my personal project I promised myself I should have finished before the end of the next quarter. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 08:59:33
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| That's a practice I've always maintained. I have notebooks and bits of paper with me whenever I'm reading, so that any tidbits I find interesting, and be immediately recorded and referenced for later usage -- either as sources of inspiration for any of the RPGs I'm running, or being applied to whatever else is occupying my mind at the time. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 09:10:17
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I took notes even before, but not as diligently as I do now. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 29 Mar 2011 : 01:18:33
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Usually, I do the note-taking on the second reading. There are novels which I simply can't afford to put down even for just a few seconds [I mean that literally], and pausing just to jot certain matters down relevant to my current endeavor is one of the greatest, and sometimes annoying, distractions there is. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 29 Mar 2011 : 05:24:11
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I started doing note-taking, with some of the sourcebooks, intending to compile the named Years in the Realms. And then, a few months after I started, WotC put the entire Roll on their website.  |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 29 Mar 2011 : 07:32:19
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I know the feeling. Something similar happened to me years ago. |
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GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 Mar 2011 : 11:39:12
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| I like to read without electric light. There's just something about an oil lamp... |
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GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
527 Posts |
Posted - 29 Mar 2011 : 11:42:48
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| I also find that I read twice as fast when it's in the form of an E-book. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 02:33:56
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Originally posted by GRYPHON
I also find that I read twice as fast when it's in the form of an E-book.
Strange. Mine's the complete opposite. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 03:46:11
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
Is it "weird" that I can finish a three-hundred+ page book in about three to four hours if I'm uninterrupted? Actually, I'll even admit that I once read all of Steven King's It in about five hours- on a round-trip plane ride and lay-over.
It depends on what I'm reading. The "uninterrupted" factor isn't really a concern, since I read on the train to and from work all the time -- I'm surrounded by the sounds of the city and fellow commuters. But I can usually work my way through a three-hundred+ page book in one sitting if it's something I'm really eager to read. Like an Ed-novel for example...
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 04:40:41
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
By uninterrupted, I meant not having to stop and get up to do something else- I can tune out just about ANYTHING when I read, so long as I don't have to do anything else!
Bah! You're not truly a Realms-devotee until you've read the complete Annotated Elminster in one sitting WITHOUT relieving yourself in "the facilities" or satisfying any bestial urges for thirst and/or hunger. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 05:36:36
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Depends on the length and genre. I read each novel in MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series in less than three hours. |
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Laerrigan
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 06:09:47
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| My idea of heaven on earth used to be lying on the floor (changing positions now and then) alone in a room and reading ALL DAY LONG, hardly even thinking about food, annoyed by the necessity of occasional bathroom breaks. Since getting into my own creative writing, I find I can hardly stick with any reading long enough to complete the book. I get my own ideas, find something else more interesting, or just plain fail to pick the book back up, even if I was rather enjoying it. I've just found very few books immersive/involving enough in recent years to keep me NEEDING to know what happens next and how it all resolves. Since it's obviously not the whole literary world that's changed, it must be me. I almost feel I've lost something at the same time as I've gained something else. So, does getting into a book and enjoying it and then never finishing it count as a weird reading habit? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 06:32:42
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I guess so. Most people, I think, would finish a book they enjoy reading, unless, perhaps something happens in the middle that makes no sense or infuriates them, like the nonsensical death of their favorite character. |
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Kerrigan
Acolyte
Germany
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 07:20:25
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
I also like to eat while I read. Don't know if any of that is weird.
The same for me. What could be better than some cheese sandwiches and a cup of steaming hot chocolate while you're sitting on your bed, holding a good book in your hands? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 07:24:51
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Two things could either happen when I eat while reading: either I half-enjoyed what I read as I savor the food, or I half-enjoyed the food as the book grabs most of my attention. That's why I no longer do those things at the same time. I'm a multi-tasker. But as long as time permits it, I choose what I musti-task. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 13:27:08
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| Not like a weird reading habit "per se" but before buying a book I always do the same ritual; first look at the cover (obviously), then read the synopsis (obviously also), and then I read the last paragraph of the book. Not like being a happy or a sad ending matters to me, is just an habit I have |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2011 : 23:22:17
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
Is it "weird" that I can finish a three-hundred+ page book in about three to four hours if I'm uninterrupted?
Aye, 'tis very weird. Reading so quickly absolutely prevents you from taking notes! And that's just bizarre. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 31 Mar 2011 : 06:39:29
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| I don't take notes on what I read in novels in a first read-through. For magazines, newspapers, non-fiction, and source-books, certainly, but I read novels purely for enjoyment, not filching ideas! |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 01 Apr 2011 : 08:20:43
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I remember there's a news nearly five years ago about an 11-year old girl in Manila City who reads a book upside down as fast as she does in the normal style. Her parents said she started doing it when she was 7, and quite developed the habit since then. Now that is really weird. I tried it once, and, as expected, I had headache. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 02 Apr 2011 : 03:45:16
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
I don't take notes on what I read in novels in a first read-through. For magazines, newspapers, non-fiction, and source-books, certainly, but I read novels purely for enjoyment, not filching ideas!
I read novels for both purposes. However, as I mentioned, recently I only do the note-taking on the second, third [infinite?] reading. The first one is purely for the satisfaction of my craving. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2011 : 06:24:26
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My inspiration for one of the empires in my novels is Netheril, A Thousand Kingdoms, and Sky Realm. Though most of my characters are hardly the same as those in the said settings. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Apr 2011 : 04:56:16
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Originally posted by Thelonius
... and then I read the last paragraph of the book. Not like being a happy or a sad ending matters to me, is just an habit I have
I only do that with novels I'm hardly inclined to finish, or too furious to continue. At least, before they reach the trash bin or charity box [whichever is nearest at the very moment of my torturous reading], I know what happens in the end. |
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Edited by - Dennis on 03 Apr 2011 04:59:21 |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 08 Apr 2011 : 11:39:36
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Reading in a tree house. Kinda missed the old days. |
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