[pdurrant]

Here are the ones that speak to me.
And goodness - so many of the items in the article are to do with paper books. How 20th Century!


3. People who say, “You do know it’s just a book, right?”
8. Books so funny you become that person laughing alone at a restaurant.
13. Only four pages to go!…and it’s your train stop.
16. Being prisoner to a book so good you’re unable to think of or do anything else till you’ve turned the last page.
26. The wait between installments.
28. Worrying about your favorite author’s health (for selfish reasons).
29. Tiny factual inconsistencies that ruin the entire book for you.
31. That thing where authors have lives, but us readers have NEEDS.
50. Dropping a book [reader] on your face while reading on your back.
56. Mispronouncing words because you’ve never actually heard them out loud—you’ve only read them in books.
63. Reading a book so good it (temporarily) ruins you for everything else on your shelves.
64. People respect not wanting to pause a movie way more than they respect not wanting to pause a book.
69. The depression that falls after reading the last book in a [really good] trilogy.
75. People who assume your book is a prop, a crutch, or a conversation starter.
76. Racing through a book to find out how it ends…and discovering when you get there that it’s just book one in a projected trilogy.
80. Hand-wringing articles that claim nobody reads anymore.
86. Your bedtime lies somewhere between 11 p.m. and whenever this book stops being so. damn. good.
91. Finding out distractingly awful things about the personal lives of your favorite authors.
93. Publicly snort laughing at jokes written 150 years ago.
98. Predicting a twist way too early.