Silly Reading Habits~

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Lhia_Dunwaith

Today I saw a girl who was reading a book and HIGHLIGHTING IT!!! The following conversation followed:

Me: What are you DOING to that book?!
Girl: Reading it.
Me: Why are you highlighting it?
Girl: It's for me to take more of the book in. I've already read it three times.
Me: The book is SCREAMING OUT IN PAIN!!! (By this time, I was half-laughing, but still somewhat serious)
Girl: Huh?

^This wasn't a complete stranger, either. It was a friend of my friend.^

Thats so funny!

I tend to yell at people when they distract me when I'm reading... xD

I get so angry!

 

[OrionsGift]

Lhia_Dunwaith

Today I saw a girl who was reading a book and HIGHLIGHTING IT!!! The following conversation followed:

Me: What are you DOING to that book?!
Girl: Reading it.
Me: Why are you highlighting it?
Girl: It's for me to take more of the book in. I've already read it three times.
Me: The book is SCREAMING OUT IN PAIN!!! (By this time, I was half-laughing, but still somewhat serious)
Girl: Huh?

^This wasn't a complete stranger, either. It was a friend of my friend.^

Lol! xd My brother had to read some kind of essay over the summer by a man with a PhD saying you don't truly own a book unless its marked and highlighted. eek confused

As for my wierd reading habit...I'll be doing homework or studying and stop at random intervals to read a few more pages of my current reading project. It's not a good study habit but I can't help it, I have to know what happens next! sweatdrop  

[Sita Harker]

It's true - you can't really love/enjoy a book unless you really wear it out heart  

[Aeliara]

My silliest reading habit is re-reading passages I loved over and over until I decide it's time to move on. Most of the time this is accompanied by reading outloud in various accents till I think I've gotten it right. whee  

[Aeliara]

OrionsGift

Lhia_Dunwaith

Today I saw a girl who was reading a book and HIGHLIGHTING IT!!! The following conversation followed:

Me: What are you DOING to that book?!
Girl: Reading it.
Me: Why are you highlighting it?
Girl: It's for me to take more of the book in. I've already read it three times.
Me: The book is SCREAMING OUT IN PAIN!!! (By this time, I was half-laughing, but still somewhat serious)
Girl: Huh?

^This wasn't a complete stranger, either. It was a friend of my friend.^

Lol! xd My brother had to read some kind of essay over the summer by a man with a PhD saying you don't truly own a book unless its marked and highlighted. eek confused

Oh, I love highlighting and marking up books. Writing in the margins is my favourite, I have a copy of Dorian Gray with so many comments and underscores that you can hardly read it anymore! rofl

The theory: You should never read a book you want to know something more than the plot in without a writing device in hand. 3nodding  

[Conall the Wanderer]

~Arabella Strange~

I mess up the pages.

I take a piece of a page, fold it so it forms a sort of triangle, and push it out. It results in a huge crease, a curving of the pages (if I do it all over the page) and sometimes ripps. I like the feeling of the book when the pages are curly.

I also bend the edges about a 1/4 of an inch towards the center. Yet more page-curving. smile

I do the same thing with pushing the folds out. It started with science books when I was little because I liked the sound it made. smile  

[Lady Ayre]

If I'm especially enraptured by a book for some reason or another, I have the eccentric habit of snatching little opportunities to read, however small or inconvenient.

ninja For example: I'm in martial arts (Taekwon-do to be precise, for those of you that have a need for detail), and I was only very recently laughed at for hiding behind the studio wall, absorbed in my book (white uniform, belt, sock-less and all sweatdrop ). Rather embarrassing, but I already had the reputation anyways...So I suppose I'm used to it. rolleyes

Also...I tend to take time to read after my shower every morning...Often being the reason for my lateness to school...Though I usually (and somehow miraculously) manage to escape a tardy by A. Running, B. Going into class with my book-bag, and C. Getting there just as the bell rings/OR by spiriting myself into my seat and doing my best to avoid discovery...It takes Ninja-skill, I'm serious. ninja

Though, I'll admit, I do have an advantage:

My first period instructor has recently returned from a trip to the hospital for a slight stroke--and yes, he's been teaching at my school since the Triassic Period--so he usually doesn't take much notice of my tardiness (to my eternal wonder)...Thank whatever benevolent being that deigns to watch over my hapless self. <[-.-]"

 

[twilightem]

I tend to read all the time, especially in biology class. It sounds fun, but gets me into lots of trouble. Like last Wednesday:

Mrs. V(my bio teacher): Emily, what are you doing?
Me: Uhh looking over that book about the IEP project.
Mrs. V: I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please don't read that while I'm teaching.
Me: Ok.

I'm serious. My biology teacher is a ditz. A nice person, but a ditz. A couple weeks ago she lost our tests, so we didn't take them for two days till she found them. On her kitchen counter. xd  

[Feline Anachronism]

beaulolais

i read in the tub, fall asleep, drop the book and thoroughly soak it.

i have become notorious for doing this

And that is why I don't read in the tub.  

[Feline Anachronism]

Lady Ayre

If I'm especially enraptured by a book for some reason or another, I have the eccentric habit of snatching little opportunities to read, however small or inconvenient.

ninja For example: I'm in martial arts (Taekwon-do to be precise, for those of you that have a need for detail), and I was only very recently laughed at for hiding behind the studio wall, absorbed in my book (white uniform, belt, sock-less and all sweatdrop ). Rather embarrassing, but I already had the reputation anyways...So I suppose I'm used to it. rolleyes

Also...I tend to take time to read after my shower every morning...Often being the reason for my lateness to school...Though I usually (and somehow miraculously) manage to escape a tardy by A. Running, B. Going into class with my book-bag, and C. Getting there just as the bell rings/OR by spiriting myself into my seat and doing my best to avoid discovery...It takes Ninja-skill, I'm serious. ninja

Though, I'll admit, I do have an advantage:

My first period instructor has recently returned from a trip to the hospital for a slight stroke--and yes, he's been teaching at my school since the Triassic Period--so he usually doesn't take much notice of my tardiness (to my eternal wonder)...Thank whatever benevolent being that deigns to watch over my hapless self. <[-.-]"

I used to read at my Tae Kwon Do gym (I took tkd in high school). I would sometimes miss class because I was so into a book.  

[american vanity]

i love reading curled up in the backseat of my car, especially in the summer. but while i'm out there, i have to have lemonade, no matter what i'm reading.

i live out in the country, so i'll roll down the windows and it's so relaxing that i'll get immersed in the book for hours on end that my lemonade won't have ice-cubes in it anymore. when i first began doing that, i made me mum worried because she couldn't find me.  

[okjgidgvstyrhfjk]

american vanity

i love reading curled up in the backseat of my car, especially in the summer. but while i'm out there, i have to have lemonade, no matter what i'm reading.

i live out in the country, so i'll roll down the windows and it's so relaxing that i'll get immersed in the book for hours on end that my lemonade won't have ice-cubes in it anymore. when i first began doing that, i made me mum worried because she couldn't find me.

That sounds like so much fun!

 

[Lhia Dunwaith]

Aeliara

OrionsGift

Lhia_Dunwaith

Today I saw a girl who was reading a book and HIGHLIGHTING IT!!! The following conversation followed:

Me: What are you DOING to that book?!
Girl: Reading it.
Me: Why are you highlighting it?
Girl: It's for me to take more of the book in. I've already read it three times.
Me: The book is SCREAMING OUT IN PAIN!!! (By this time, I was half-laughing, but still somewhat serious)
Girl: Huh?

^This wasn't a complete stranger, either. It was a friend of my friend.^

Lol! xd My brother had to read some kind of essay over the summer by a man with a PhD saying you don't truly own a book unless its marked and highlighted. eek confused

Oh, I love highlighting and marking up books. Writing in the margins is my favourite, I have a copy of Dorian Gray with so many comments and underscores that you can hardly read it anymore! rofl

The theory: You should never read a book you want to know something more than the plot in without a writing device in hand. 3nodding

Oh noes! Not you, too, Aeli! rofl

I think my whole book-OCD started when I loaned out my copy of Eragon (hardcover, book jacket included, perfect condition) to a girl on the swim team. I seriously wonder if she dropped it in the bathtub, ran it over with a dump truck, and cut it up with torture knives. It was gone for, like, four months, and when I got it back, it looked disgusting! The book jacket was ripped up all over the place, and there are coffee stains on a lot of the pages. Needless to say, I came up with this:

Lhia's Rules (more like Commandments) of Book-Borrowing

1. Thou shalt not borrow the book for more than two months, unless thee is a painfully slow reader.
2. Thou shalt not put paperback books in a backpack. It crinkles the front cover and leaves unsightly crease lines.
3. Thou shalt not loan the book to others when the book is in thine care.
4. Thou shalt not desecrate the book in any way, shape, or form.
5. Thou shalt not lose the book, even if it was merely left in math class for a few minutes and thee has to run back and get it.
6. Thou shalt not read the book while walking (it is for thine own safety as well as the book's).
7. Thou shalt not obsess to me like a fangirl about how hot the main male character is, because when you do that, I fear for thine sanity.
8. Thou shalt not scream in class upon arriving at the ending of the book- while you are supposed to be doing math work (It has happened).
9. Thou shalt not tell thine parents about the book, unless it has much harmless material.
10. Thou shalt not blame any of the aforementioned on me when it goes wrong for thee.  

[okjgidgvstyrhfjk]

Lhia, I laughed so much after reading that!

 

[Lhia Dunwaith]

Thanks! biggrin

The sad thing is that when I tell that to people who aren't my friends, they look at me like this: stare <----- (The "don't tell me you forgot to take your meds" look).