types of readers
THE CONSUMER - you devour the book lucky enough to deserve your dedication. no spare moment is too short to read just another sentence, and each word has your undivided attention in the seconds or hours you spend reading. often, the love affair is over too soon.
THE SAVOURER - books are paper treasures, and you want time to explore and learn. sometimes, just a handful of pages is enough. after that, you want to relish the new information or emotions before you move on.
THE JUGGLER - you love many at once. it can be a fine balancing act, and sometimes storylines cross, but that just opens up more worlds to imagine. you let your mood decide where to travel next and you can never be disappointed then.
THE FAITHFUL - old friends never lose that place in your heart. they are familiar and comforting; you know where they will take you, but there is a different excitement in retracing the same steps and you still learn new things revisiting bent spines and curled pages.
THE EXPERIMENTER - you are never tied down to just one genre or type. books are for exploring and learning, and you will experience as much as possible in the words that authors give you.
THE BINGER - once you begin a journey, you will follow those characters step by step until the very end. other quests will have to wait, because whether the author takes you into a trilogy or a saga, you cannot start another adventure before you have conquered the first.
THE MULTI-TASKER - reading fills every second that is not filled by something else, and if you can read at the same time, then your day is just more exciting. you are the child that was warned that walking and reading at the same time was dangerous. now, you have refined your skills, but there are still times when the real world slips away.
THE HERMIT - your book deserves your total devotion, and even the background buzz of reality is too much. reading for you means a comfortable spot, good lighting and maybe a locked door. when you read, there is nothing but you and your pages.
THE SENSITIVE - some people have to look away out of second-hand embarassment, but you feel second-hand everything. you become immersed in your books and emerge with a touch of emotional exhaustion. some books bear physical markers - a few smudges from tears, or dented covers from an anger-filled toss at a wall.
THE BOUNCER - you are the one bent over a different book every time someone sees you. the books are a feast and you are ravenous; once one course is finished, no-one can bring out the next fast enough.
THE LINGERER - the last page might be finished, but you are certainly not. you have thoughts and questions, and maybe need to revisit that one moment where there was foreshadowing that you didn’t quite catch. for you, reading is not linear, and it is for you to decide when you are ‘finished’.
