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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 0:16:14 GMT
@pony , Yep. We didn’t have tv when I was growing up. I rode my bike or read books. I still love to read. I turn the news on and miss it because I get too deep into my book. We had tv, but Dad was always watching stupid things none of us liked, so there was books or books.
I enjoyed going to the library when I could. It was quiet, and no one yelled at me. I'd get a stack of books and find a corner all to myself.
God bless the Chicago Public Library system.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 2, 2020 1:32:39 GMT
I didn't discover books until my mid-thirties. Oh, I read the required stuff in school, and enjoyed an occasional book that might have been lent to me, but my focus was pretty much unfocused when it came to reading.
My mother was a big reader, joining book clubs all the time it seemed. She kept trying to get me to slow down long enough to read some of the classics she'd gotten from the Readers Digest club. I was too busy being the boy mothers warned their daughters about.
It wasn't until my mid-forties that I really started reading for enjoyment. I'm not nearly as well read as many others here, I envy them.
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Post by meandtk on Jan 2, 2020 4:18:55 GMT
@pony , Yep. We didn’t have tv when I was growing up. I rode my bike or read books. I still love to read. I turn the news on and miss it because I get too deep into my book. We had tv, but Dad was always watching stupid things none of us liked, so there was books or books.
I enjoyed going to the library when I could. It was quiet, and no one yelled at me. I'd get a stack of books and find a corner all to myself.
God bless the Chicago Public Library system.
I haven’t been to a library in 29 years. I figure if it’s worth reading, it’s worth buying; and if it’s worth buying, it’s worth keeping. I’ve violated that at times, but 2,000+ volumes making my shelves overloaded says it hasn’t happened often.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 12:27:12 GMT
We had tv, but Dad was always watching stupid things none of us liked, so there was books or books.
I enjoyed going to the library when I could. It was quiet, and no one yelled at me. I'd get a stack of books and find a corner all to myself.
God bless the Chicago Public Library system.
I haven’t been to a library in 29 years. I figure if it’s worth reading, it’s worth buying; and if it’s worth buying, it’s worth keeping. I’ve violated that at times, but 2,000+ volumes making my shelves overloaded says it hasn’t happened often. As a child, that option was not open to me.
As an adult, I buy waaaaay too many books. We bring about 3 boxes to the used book store each year, give away many books, and have too few shelves to house the books to which we are attached.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 12:43:44 GMT
I didn't discover books until my mid-thirties. Oh, I read the required stuff in school, and enjoyed an occasional book that might have been lent to me, but my focus was pretty much unfocused when it came to reading. My mother was a big reader, joining book clubs all the time it seemed. She kept trying to get me to slow down long enough to read some of the classics she'd gotten from the Readers Digest club. I was too busy being the boy mothers warned their daughters about. It wasn't until my mid-forties that I really started reading for enjoyment. I'm not nearly as well read as many others here, I envy them. But you are well-read, and you continue to read. You are better-read than most.
C.S. Lewis was, as the cliche goes, a voracious reader. He once quipped that the books he'd loaned, mislaid, or otherwise lost over the years would be waiting for him when he got to Heaven.
Let's hope that list includes all the books we've yet to read, and that there are very comfy chairs and endless pots of tea to enjoy as we read.
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Post by meandtk on Jan 3, 2020 2:02:35 GMT
I haven’t been to a library in 29 years. I figure if it’s worth reading, it’s worth buying; and if it’s worth buying, it’s worth keeping. I’ve violated that at times, but 2,000+ volumes making my shelves overloaded says it hasn’t happened often. As a child, that option was not open to me.
As an adult, I buy waaaaay too many books. We bring about 3 boxes to the used book store each year, give away many books, and have too few shelves to house the books to which we are attached.
I went to the library often when I was a child. It was a special treat to be able to buy books of my own. I am trying to reign in my buying, as I’ve run out of room. I need to figure out how/where to put more shelving in my study. I may also need to do a purge some day; but I’ll have difficulty doing that. These days I enjoy going to thrift stores and book shopping. I scored about ten good ones today. So much for cutting back...
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Post by aussiedarren on Jan 3, 2020 3:49:51 GMT
467 is a comfortable pace for me, a lot of typos in the text sure didnt help. Would not want to read that fast as a matter of course think it would take to much enjoyment away from the reading, and cost me a lot more. my normal reading pace would be about 300
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Post by Jolly on Jan 3, 2020 13:21:27 GMT
For anyone wanting to calculate their reading speed, follow this link to My Read Speed. www.myreadspeed.com/That was fun. Picked the Sherlock Holmes option and the larger font. Several mistyped words, though. Read every word, although I admit I was trying to read as fast as I could. 1027, According to the site.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 14:02:29 GMT
For anyone wanting to calculate their reading speed, follow this link to My Read Speed. www.myreadspeed.com/That was fun. Picked the Sherlock Holmes option and the larger font. Several mistyped words, though. Read every word, although I admit I was trying to read as fast as I could. 1027, According to the site. Yeah, as you and aussiedarren noted, there were typos, which always slow me down.
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Post by aussiedarren on Jan 5, 2020 22:05:10 GMT
For anyone wanting to calculate their reading speed, follow this link to My Read Speed. www.myreadspeed.com/That was fun. Picked the Sherlock Holmes option and the larger font. Several mistyped words, though. Read every word, although I admit I was trying to read as fast as I could. 1027, According to the site. Dang Jolly i am impressed
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Post by cornhusker on Jan 7, 2020 16:32:57 GMT
I guess I'm just average, but then some stuff reads easier than other stuff.
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Post by cornhusker on Jan 7, 2020 16:49:49 GMT
Anybody else remember the Weekly Reader? About once a year it seems like, they had their Book Club thing come out with a few pages of books for sale. Mom and Dad would allow us just so much money to buy books, so we had to read all the descriptions, try to decide if it was a good book or not, and narrow our selection down to just 3 or 4 that we really wanted. The order would go in, and several weeks later the book order would come in and our teacher would check them off and separate them into piles according to whose books they were. I remember it being a very exciting process and the day they arrived was almost as exciting as a birthday. Mom was a reader who would get books anywhere she could, but rarely a brand new book. She spent every minute she could spare reading, and I remember us kids gathering around while she read to us. When I was 6 or 7, I spent 1 winter sitting on a heat vent with a blanket wrapped around me reading the Colliers "The Junior Classics" books. I think I read the whole set, but I only remember a couple stories. Good times.
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Post by DEKE on Jan 7, 2020 18:23:05 GMT
Anybody else remember the Weekly Reader? I sure do and my experience was much like yours. Getting those books was like Christmas morning.
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Post by aussiedarren on Jan 7, 2020 21:59:26 GMT
Anybody else remember the Weekly Reader? About once a year it seems like, they had their Book Club thing come out with a few pages of books for sale. Mom and Dad would allow us just so much money to buy books, so we had to read all the descriptions, try to decide if it was a good book or not, and narrow our selection down to just 3 or 4 that we really wanted. The order would go in, and several weeks later the book order would come in and our teacher would check them off and separate them into piles according to whose books they were. I remember it being a very exciting process and the day they arrived was almost as exciting as a birthday. Mom was a reader who would get books anywhere she could, but rarely a brand new book. She spent every minute she could spare reading, and I remember us kids gathering around while she read to us. When I was 6 or 7, I spent 1 winter sitting on a heat vent with a blanket wrapped around me reading the Colliers "The Junior Classics" books. I think I read the whole set, but I only remember a couple stories. Good times. we used to get a similar thing once every 2 months at school, oh the agony of the decision of what book to spend your money on.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 12:53:10 GMT
Anybody else remember the Weekly Reader? I sure do and my experience was much like yours. Getting those books was like Christmas morning. I always went right to Goofus and Gallant.
And for whatever reason, I did not care for the Timbertoes. Read it, of course, just like I'd read a cereal box at breakfast or a shampoo bottle at bath time, but there ya go.
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