03-26-2018, 10:43 AM | #16 |
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I can not remember a time I did not read. I used to go to the library at least twice a week and would check out the maximum books allowed. I have always carried a book, or two, with me where ever I go. eBooks make it much easier to read and pick the next book I want to read. Traveling is much easier now too. My suitcase is not filled with books now.
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03-26-2018, 11:09 AM | #17 |
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Like Apache, I do not remember a time I was not reading.
My first intense reading experience was around 5th grade. The school had a system of stories with quiz questions, all written on large cards (if I recall correctly). They were color coded for difficulty (grade level). For reasons unknown I was on a mission. I ate them like popcorn and had anxiety until I ripped through them all. By sixth grade I tested at a twelfth grade reading level. I do feel my speed at 'reading with comprehension' was like a secret weapon all through school and a life-long advantage. |
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03-26-2018, 11:55 AM | #18 | |
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03-26-2018, 01:27 PM | #19 | |
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Aside from that, I always loved reading as a child. I remember hiding under the covers with a flashlight reading after my mom put me to bed. Boy reading back then would have been a lot easier with a Paperwhite! Another memory from my childhood, that I'm sure contributed to my love of reading--my 3rd and 4th grade teacher would always set aside a twenty minutes or so after we returned from lunch in which she would read a "chapter book" to the class room. That was always one of my favorite times of the school day. |
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03-26-2018, 02:16 PM | #20 |
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We never had books around when I was growing up; my dad read the newspaper and my mother magazines. In about 5th grade, I remember going to a friend's house, and she had a set of Nancy Drew books in her room. I never saw anything so wonderful in my life. So I got myself a library card (probably had to whine about it, but we certainly didn't have money to buy books) and never looked back. I bought my first paperback book as a freshman in college-I read Jaws instead of studying for my Calc final (scared me to death). Bought my first hardcover when I got accepted to Harvard Law School-One L, which had just come out (no, it wasn't like that).
Throughout my working years, I bought thousands of paperback and hardcover books. I used to justify my spending by saying I would probably be eating dog food when I retired, but at least I would have something to read. Before we went on vacation, we would go to the bookstore and spend $100s on stuff to read. Then, in 2008, someone mentioned the kindle to me, and I gave it a try. I have never looked back. |
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03-26-2018, 02:56 PM | #21 |
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I literally can't remember a time when I couldn't read, and didn't want to read. I don't know why I read so much, neither of my parents were readers.
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03-26-2018, 03:49 PM | #22 |
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Like others, I can't remember not being a reader. My Mum would read to me and she got me reading on my own before I started school. First library card at 5, and I had consumed the entire Children's Library in my home town before I reached age 12. My father gave me his library card so I could have access to the Adult Library, and I was reading my Mum's adult books as well. My reading was almost obsessive. Until computers. I fell off the reading wagon for some years after I discovered "adventure games" in text format, but later, a Casseiopia E500 and .lit books to take on night shift got me going again. I dont read as voraciously as I did when young, but I do so enjoy it. I love being transported to other places, other lives, other times... theres nothing like it.
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03-26-2018, 04:12 PM | #23 |
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I always read, but I remember it going up a notch or two around Grade Two. I was sick a lot as a kid, and didn't have cable tv. Daytime tv on CBC and ATV was really, really boring. Reading was so much better.
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03-26-2018, 05:37 PM | #24 | |
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Once I had my own card, I got my grandmother to take me to the library and she would let me use her card so I could check out double the book limit. I never left a library without a stack of books I could hardly see over when I was a kid.... Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk |
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03-26-2018, 05:48 PM | #25 |
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Although I don't really remember it, I'm sure my mother read to me as a child. I got the hang of reading quickly in first grade, there was just no stopping me, I loved reading so. I remember I used to read all my school books before the first week of school was over, LOL!
I read cereal boxes. I read my parent's Wall Street Journal. If it was printed on paper, I read it back then. My mother had a set of small red books, all mystery stories, that's what made me a mystery lover. My grandmother doled out my father's childhood books to keep me entertained and bought me some as well. I got books out of our little church library, oddly enough, given it was a Catholic church, that's where I discovered Harry Kemelman's The Rabbi mystery series. I woulda killed for reader tech back then ... I *was* that kid with the flashlight and a book under the covers at night, LOL! Big, nay, HUGE library user my entire life. Had to be, otherwise couldn't afford the habit. My high school library was pretty good, read a lot of classics there. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk |
03-26-2018, 05:51 PM | #26 | |
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One of my early purchases was Sinbad and Me by Kin Platt. Great book! Books were around at my grandparents' houses, tons of reading there. I loved visiting them because of that. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk |
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03-26-2018, 06:04 PM | #27 |
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This I can remember quite well. Ironically enough, while my mom read me bedtime stories, she didn't teach me how to read despite being an English teacher. I first learned reading in nursery school (4yo) so I was behind my peers who started learning at home. Once I learned, though, it was full throttle and I was at a higher reading level by the time I went to kindergarten.
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03-26-2018, 09:41 PM | #28 |
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I remember telling my teacher in the 3rd or 4th grade that I was bored. She told me to go read a book, so I did. Been reading ever since!
When paperbacks became to hard to read, I switched over to fanfiction on the pc. Got into ebooks in late 2009 again on the pc with Sony for pc and haven't touched a paperback since then. |
03-26-2018, 10:22 PM | #29 |
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I remember reading newspaper comics and a few comic books as a kid. I didn't get into reading until Star Wars came out. I wanted to get more sci-fi, and the best way to do that was to read Starlog magazine. It was there I discovered you could read SF/F as well as watch it. Around that time I had an English teacher who thought I had some ability to write. She gave me some encouragement to read to help me to write better.
After high school I took some interest in history and broadened out into reading that. At some point later I decided to start reading certain classic works of literature, partly because Project Gutenberg made them easy to find. |
03-27-2018, 10:01 AM | #30 |
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I've always been a reader. I learned to read before I went to kindergarten and I've been reading ever since.
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