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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an awesome question!  I learned to read when I was pretty young, and I quickly realized that books gave me access to worlds beyond my own, and to information that people in my life did not have access to.  Reading became a refuge, and, in some ways, possibly even an addiction.  Reading has changed the trajectory of my life in that I’m certain that I owe quite a few standardized test scores to my reading habit.

Reading is a hobby, a source of information, a means of facilitating connections with others, a calming habit….Reading is just what I DO.

I don’t watch TV, rarely go to movies, and have yet to get into audio books.

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Me too.  I read for pleasure and enjoyment.  As a wife, mother, employee, it's one of the only things I get to do for *me*.

I'd much rather read than watch TV, and I don't do audio books either.  I also don't read books on Kindle or electronically (although I do a fair amount of reading of other things electronically).  The physical act of reading from a book, turning those pages, is much more enjoyable to me than being read to.

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This used to be me, but I do get sad when I read a good book (I'm talking really good book) and I have no one to share it with. Then I can go to book clubs or talk with other readers and tell them to read it, but have to wait two weeks and them maybe they'll talk about it. Or when there is someone else who has read said book and we can just talk about how good it was.

But I think I have changed. I think I still like some of the genre of books I was reading, but once I expanded it a bit, I found that I could talk with people about some of the things in these books without them having read it.

I remember reading the Alchemist and seeing the spoon and the oil. I had talks with friends about that without them having read the book. Sometimes there is advice like that or there are events that sound cool (archery or martial arts for example) that I read about and say that sounds cool. Some of them like running I have actively added to my life (I think I read Pillars of the Earth where Grace was running from somebody and she did a run/walk/run/walk thing to escape and I thought it was a cool way to get into running even though I couldn't run at the time).

But while I read to get away and entertain myself, I will say that I definitely enjoy sharing different opinions of books and seeing what others got from it. [/quote]

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