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re: How often do you actually sit down and read a book?
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:10 pm to CBandits82
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:10 pm to CBandits82
I try to every evening after the TV is cut off. Some nights I get quite a bit in some nights maybe a page or two before it's lights out. I have my tablet with the Kindle app on a flexible pivot stand next to the bed that I can just pivot out in front of me don't have to hold it just use my fingers to turn the page. Put it in night time mode and turn down the brightness works perfect.
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Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:25 pm to CBandits82
Every night before bed, for anywhere from 3-4 mins to 20-30 mins. Dependent on how tired out I am.
Primarily fiction but also bios, history, psych, politics, Pulitzers, you name it.
Best are stories by Connelly, Kellerman, CJ Box. Authors that paint scenes with their words to help my brain slow down and crash.
Primarily fiction but also bios, history, psych, politics, Pulitzers, you name it.
Best are stories by Connelly, Kellerman, CJ Box. Authors that paint scenes with their words to help my brain slow down and crash.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:34 pm to CBandits82
quote:
How often do you actually sit down and read a book?
Almost every day. My parents instilled a love of reading in us, and I prefer reading novels to watching TV.
It’s easy now, but when I had small children I read every night before I switched off the lights. It helped that my wife did too. Almost every night I’d have to peel the book off her face and tuck her in.
Sometimes I’d only read five minutes and sometimes an hour, but I made it a point to do that every night.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:37 pm to CBandits82
frickin never anymore. I read all day at work, and by the end of the day it’s the last thing I want to do. I haven’t been able to read for pleasure in ages.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:39 pm to CBandits82
Nice, “I can read” thread.
I see what you did here you arrogant prick.
I see what you did here you arrogant prick.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:51 pm to PhilipMarlowe
Every night.
Mostly history and I'll follow times.
Example:
I was reading The First Crusade. In it the author mentioned a book that he admired about the Reconquest of Spain. I got it on ILL. It had no fluff but a lot of detail about how long it took and less about the characters. Then I got Sister Queens : they were sisters: who became Queens unhappily. Juana was Queen of Spain aka Juana the Mad and the other was Henry VIII's first wife, .Katherine of Aragon.
The actions of Cardinal Woolsey against the latter has gotten me to get a book about him from ILL. I'm also looking to learn more about the Burgundian rulers and the eventual decline of the Holy Roman Empire (Juana's husband was also of that family and King of a number of countries.).
SorryL TLDR
Mostly history and I'll follow times.
Example:
I was reading The First Crusade. In it the author mentioned a book that he admired about the Reconquest of Spain. I got it on ILL. It had no fluff but a lot of detail about how long it took and less about the characters. Then I got Sister Queens : they were sisters: who became Queens unhappily. Juana was Queen of Spain aka Juana the Mad and the other was Henry VIII's first wife, .Katherine of Aragon.
The actions of Cardinal Woolsey against the latter has gotten me to get a book about him from ILL. I'm also looking to learn more about the Burgundian rulers and the eventual decline of the Holy Roman Empire (Juana's husband was also of that family and King of a number of countries.).
SorryL TLDR
Posted on 2/25/26 at 6:28 pm to real turf fan
That's called going down the rabbit holes. And there are soooo many of them, aren't there? And I love all of them.
A dangerous source of rabbit holes is the bibliography listing the author's sources. Oh boy!
And there are soooo many of them, aren't there? And I love all of them. A dangerous source of rabbit holes is the bibliography listing the author's sources. Oh boy!
Posted on 2/25/26 at 7:35 pm to CBandits82
Every night before going to sleep I read the Bible and currently, a book on Napoleon.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 7:46 pm to REB BEER
Me too. Think the last book I sat down and read was “the great shark hunt” by hunter Thompson.
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