Reading Habits...
So everybody reads differently. We all have our different idiosyncrasies when it comes to our reading habits. So Abbie and I decided to share ours with the world. Do you do any of these? Or do you have any reading habits that we haven’t mentioned?
Poly Reading
Charliiey - I am a poly reader, I can read a number of books at any one time. I do however try to make sure that they are all different in genres so that I don’t confuse the stories with one another. So at the moment I am reading a children’s classic fiction, a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book.
Abbie - Most of the time I only read one book at once. However, there have been rare occasions where I have been reading more than one book at once. I also really love audio books and so sometimes I will have a physical book and an audiobook.
Bookmarks
Charliiey - I collect bookmarks and for the most part I do use them. Although to be honest if you were to look around my house you would probably find a coupe of books that are just laid upside down. I mostly use a bookmark in order to mark where I am going to read to, whilst I am reading.
Abbie - I use to dog-ear books w=but then I learnt the error of my ways and started using bookmarks.
Background Noise
Charliiey - Sometimes I listen to instrumental/piano music on spotify in the background whilst I read, but I really can’t concentrate if the TV is on or someone is speaking, I would just get distracted. However, on my commute to work I listen to my music and I can concentrate. I think it’s because I am far less likely to burst into song and dance on the bus.
Abbie - Recently my favourite thing to do whilst reading is to watch booktube. I like having some background noise and it motivates me to read.
Breaking the spine and annotating
Charliiey - Yes I do break the spine, I can’t read a book without opening it properly. It’s the sign of a well-loved book, when it has been broken. I annotate m y books by highlighting quotes that I thought were interesting or really funny.
Abbie - I rarely break the spine, although I have started doing it if my hands are hurting from reading. I don’t annotate books. There isn’t a particular reason why, I just don’t have the same inclination to do so that others do.
Skip pages or read ahead
Charliiey - I try not to skip ahead because I liked to be surprised at the outcome. I do find myself almost skim reading when the book is at an exciting or a tense section.
Abbie - I used to be really bad for this at school when we would have to read a book for English, because we would have to read it at the same pace so I would sometimes flick to the end in order to see what happened.