When Do You Read?

[Tattncat]

I read in the morning with my morning coffee. (Usually an hour or two)

I read during the day whenever the occasion offers. (Another hour or so)

I read in the evening, if I'm not on the computer. (Another hour or three)

Add in another hour before bed, plus generally two hours around 2 to 5 in the morning and there you have it.

Oh, BTW I'm a retired soon to be Great Grandmother.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by Tattncat

I read in the morning with my morning coffee. (Usually an hour or two)

I read during the day whenever the occasion offers. (Another hour or so)

I read in the evening, if I'm not on the computer. (Another hour or three)

Add in another hour before bed, plus generally two hours around 2 to 5 in the morning and there you have it.

Oh, BTW I'm a retired soon to be Great Grandmother.

I was wondering where you would fit a job in that busy schedule...

[foreverjuly]

This is a huge amount of reading TattnCat. I'm jealous! How many books do you read in a year? It's probably a good thing you're using an ereader!

[GraceKrispy]

It might be better to ask when DON'T I read. I am assuming you mean reading actual books for pleasure of course (because I do tend to read every little bit of text in my environment, I can't help it). Here is the list:

Let's see, uh... oh yes! When I'm working (unless it's lunch or some other time I can grab a few pages from a book)
when I'm... uh.... on the computer (unless I'm multitasking, which I frequently do)...... when I'm in the shower (shampoo bottles don't count, right?)
when I'm stirring something hot (got burned- literally- doing that once)
when I'm watching my kids play soccer (I'm usually the ref anyway)
when I'm out with friends or family (sometimes thinking about the book I had to put down...sometimes I grab a few pages there, too)
when we eat together as a family
when I'm sleeping!

Most of the rest of the day, I am with book in hand, reading. My mother, an avid reader herself, once said she had never in her life seen anyone read while vacuuming and sweeping the floor. Growing up, I refused to even go into the bathroom for any purpose without first choosing a book.

My son is just like me. *sigh*

[L.J. Sellers]

It's usually late at night, Sunday afternoon, or while I'm waiting for just about anything.
L.J.

[recycledelectron]

If I had time to read at night, in bed, I would have never left paper books.

My ebook reader (/ MID / Internet Tablet / UMPC / thingy) lets me work / read when I am on the run, and have to wait for a few minutes. Right now, I'm in my office, but I'll be reading over lunch in an hour. I'll be waiting in a Docor's office Friday. I'll be waiting...and reading.

Andy

[Sweetpea]

Whenever I can...

Weekdays:
In the morning, when the paper is boring, I'll read my book or the Donald Duck
While waiting for my ride home (we carpool, we both drive every other day)
While waiting for my husband when I'm picking him up and he's running late again
While waiting for dinner to be cooked (I never cook, my husband does that).
If I'm reading a book I must finish (you know the feeling), I'll head into bed early and read the night away until my eyes close, otherwise I'll head into bed a bit later and read until my eyes close (which can take anything between 5 minutes and over 2 hours)

Weekends:
In the morning, when I wake up but decide it's too early to get out (or too cold...)
While eating breakfast
Whenever I can find the time during the day
And the same as above, depending on the book I'll go to bed early or normal time and read till I fall asleep.

Beside that, I sometimes take my book with me to the toilet, and always when I'm taking a bath (which doesn't happen often in summer, but a lot in winter).

I always have one of my readers next to me, wherever I am (even sitting behind my PC, I have a reader open...) Even when I'm playing a computer game, I have a reader next to me open at my current page. You never know when there might be a quiet moment...

[Rumpelteazer]

I always read at night in bed before going to sleep. It really depends on the book, how tired I am and how much I'm into reading at that moment how long I read. At the moment I usually read until around 2 in the morning. I live in the inner city so when there's a lot of noise, loud music or a festival I read in bed too.

I also read during commercial breaks when watching tv or when my family is watching something I'm not interested in.

When I'm working I can sometimes sneak in a couple of pages when there are no customers and there's nothing else to do. Mostly that happens during summer, in winter it's too busy.

During the week on my days off I don't read that much during the day, unless it's a really good book. During summer I often housesit for friends and family and I love to sit outside in the garden to read, since we haven't got a garden or balcony.

On the weekend (for me that's Sunday and Monday) I usually manage to read a couple of hours a day. On Sunday morning I love to read in the quiet livingroom when everybody else is asleep. On Monday afternoon I'm usually alone at home. I love to lie on the couch in the sun in the afternoon although, admittedly, I usually fall asleep.

[rePete]

Away from home.

I always grab it on errands because you never know what sort of interruptions you'll experience. Dr's offices - it's a dream. @ work - Yup because my job requires lots of sedentary time watching computer monitors so I multi-task.