1) Counting the pages before I start a new chapter every time. 2) OCD needing to read every word in the book cover and all. 3) Bathroom reading often. 4) Listening to audio while reading along with a book when I enjoy the narration of a book. 5) Needing peace quiet and darkness when I reading aloud to myself every word to help me focus my mind on the book. 6) Creating a soundtrack for my favorite books. 7) My brain seeing the appearance of a character’s differently than than the author describes often.
Those first two points are so much of what I do too. I will often look ahead at how long the next chapter is or how long a short story is before beginning, so I know what to expect for length. I also don't skip introductions or forewords, and will even read notes depending on the book.
2) Not the cover and all, but the content definitely. No logic to it, but I gotta. 7) _Oh yeah._ And then getting jolted out of the story when a bit of their appearance is mentioned and you gotta adjust (but then go right back to your image).
I love having a book with me at all times, but hate how they can get all banged up in my purse. Especially if it’s a vintage book, like my 1970s hardback of how to learn Norwegian (before they branded everything “Teach Yourself X”). So I crochet little book cozies with light colored cotton yarn. Future project: little crochet “belts” to hold trilogies together in my home library.
When I read, especially at night (but not exclusively), I put my headphones on and listen to Sounds. For example, Rain and thunder, snow on lake, Crackling fires with rain in the background etc….things like that. I find those sounds comforting and it cuts out any distractions around me. I also walk & read too. Started when I was about 14 yrs old. I used to read as I walked to school & back. It was almost a straight line from my house to school, it was roughly a 10 min walk. So a chance to get a bit more reading in 😊 I also did it in the last 3-4 years, in my village. I’d walk my youngest to school, then read on my way back home. I do also take a book with me everywhere. Even if i KNOW I wont have a chance to read it. I take a physical book and my Kindle. Like the other person said, it’s My comfort “blanket”. I need to know it’s there. Great video, thanks Willow. I watch every video but first time commenting. Great work 😊
@@tyghe_bright Ambient! Thank you! I was up all night with a poorly kitten, keeping an eye on him, (which is how I was actually able to watch the video when it was posted), So I was tired this morning and I couldn’t for the life of me remember the word “Ambient” 🤦♀️ Lol. Thank you!
@@tyghe_bright And yes, I completely agree. It depends what mood I’m in as to what I choose to listen to. I sometimes though match the sounds with the story. For example, when I read Thin Air by Michelle Paver, I listened to Snow/ Blizzard sounds. I find it gives a bit more depth to the story.
33% is my DNF point, I love that some people have such specific page numbers! I always, _always_ prime a physical book before reading it, softening the spine and pages so they're easier to read, the spine is less likely to crack, and large books don't do that 'slowly bending over to one side' thing over time. I'm the same with reading with music - nothing with lyrics or only with lyrics I can't understand, so for me it's a lot of synthwave or dark ambiance. I read multiple at a time, but they all have to be different genres and formats: one physical fiction, one physical nonfiction, poetry collection, digitial fiction, audiobook, etc... I suppose my weirdest reading habit is that I have to be set up in a super specific way to read a physical book 😅 I need a cushion to rest the book and my wrists on that isn't allowed to be used for anything else (although my lizard sometimes sleeps under it), I have to be able to lay the book down instead of holding it up, and I also get really particular about the paper texture thanks to sensory stuff. I get so uncomfortable holding physical books that I could probably never walk while reading them, but who knows, I live near a really nice park so maybe I'll have to try sometime! Although I could never in a million years do it myself, I have a lot of respect (fear?) for people who dismantle their books. If it helps them read the book, then all for it!
I totally respect the specific reading position. If it’s a hardcover book, I have to read it while sitting on my sofa with a cushion on my lap to support the book
Whenever my dad sits down to read, he always pauses after 1-2 pages or so to tell whoever's in the room about what happened in the story and what he liked about it. It would be endearing if I wasn't usually trying to read a book myself next to him on the couch. My mum likes to joke she "reads" every book my dad reads because of this habit. I don't have a lot of weird reading habits myself, though I did used to read the last sentence of a book before starting it (it's fun, I recommend it). And I tend to unconsciously pull weird faces while reading in reaction to whatever's happening in the story. It's alright when I'm at home, but it can make me feel self-conscious when I'm reading a horror book in the train or something.
I have a similar problem. Whenever I open a book, my boyfriend opens his mouth. I usually have to point out that I'm trying to read a book three times before he shuts it again lol
I though, that my habits are not weird, so I didn’t comment on Patreon. Though, I have one pretty specific: I try to find music that associates with the book I am reading, works awesome with historical fiction, if the period music has any records (wherever it is contemporary recordings of Medieval music, or records of songs from 1930s). Fantasy is pretty easy to pair with music. Mysteries. There are playlists for book genres, sometimes I try them.
Definitely relate to a lot of these! I always have 2-4 books going at once, I will use weird things for bookmarks (if needed). Usually one the simultaneous books "lives" in each of my two bathrooms - because that's where I'm most likely to be able to read 5-15 min at a time during the day! I don't annotate or use sticky tabs...but what I DO do is keep a bunch of slips of paper in the back while I'm reading to mark spots I want to go back to when I write my review. If I then read this book while in the bath, those tabs at that back have about a 40:60 chance of falling out and making a glob of cellulose in the water. Also, unless what I'm reading is explicitly a mystery, I almost always WANT spoilers! At the very least, I will usually look up what the story is about and a few key things that happen. I think it is a combination of having been unpleasantly surprised by events or tone shifts that I wasn't in the mood for, as well as loving the craft of planting and payoff. If I know a key event, I can enjoy spotting the foreshadowing without HAVING to re-read the book (which I often will anyway). Also, sometimes publishers and reviewers treat things like A BOOK HAVING QUEER CHARACTERS as a spoiler if that is only revealed halfway through (or, better yet "this book has queer characters that DON'T DIE1") - no, I want to know that up front because that's a selling point for me!
Mine is listening to audiobooks on much faster speed (otherwise I fall asleep), listening to music in different language than the book I'm reading and having a super slow reading speed when reading physical paper books.
I have sometimes used books as bookmarks. Sometimes I have read a book one chapter at a time thus not needing a bookmark. I can read with no music, but sometimes I put on jazz in the background.
My weird reading habit is flipping pages as I read. I just love the sound and feel as I read, especially when the pages are pleasingly "flippable". Just back and forth, flip-flip, flipping a page wherever I'm at on a book. It helps me to focus. I even just have a magazine, full of thumbed-out pages, that I flip when I am doddering about on the internet. I'll even do it with video-games in cutscenes and dialogue heavy sections or reading in-game material, such as lore. I haven't come across anyone else who seems to do this, so this video has given me an avenue to reach out to any fellow flippers that may be out there! Part of me believes this is my ultimate stim, from the result of masking as I grew up, and it developed into this habit. I still feel internal shame in public, so I do my best not to do that, but as I improve my confidence and self-esteem, I am slowly but surely aiming to flip pages in public without shame :D (I also love listening to Dark Ambience as I read from time to time!)
Thank you for introducing the word "doddering" into the conversation. I love it! And, for what it's worth, I say flip away. Flip in private, in small groups, in public. Become the Ambassador of Page Flipping. Who knows? Maybe seeing you shamelessly stim in public will help normalize it for someone else who's just too effing exhausted to keep masking.
hi, it's been 6 months since you posted this, but I also constantly flip the pages of whatever I'm reading lol Whatever side of the open book has more pages, I'm running my finger along the corner so they continuously make that delightful page-flipping sound. Also, if there's a lull in the text, I'm flipping back a page or two to skim over and make sure I didn't miss anything and the sound wakes me up and helps me refocus
This was highly entertaining. 😂 Recently I've started listening more at 1.5x, but 2x is still my preferred speed. 😊 Also you look really beautiful in this video 🥹
My weird reading habits: I can't stop reading mid-chapter, so I'm really annoyed with books that have no chapters at all. And I read paperbacks half-closed so the spine doesn't crack. Oh, and I hardly ever DNF books because I just have to know the ending. (It's the same with tv shows or movies, so I have to be careful when switching channels or otherwise I'll be hooked to some stupid show or movie.)
I listen to music whilst reading too, to drown out the noise of everyone else on my commute. But only foreign (to me) speaking language music that I don't understand, or an album I've heard so many times I can zone it out and focus on the book!
looool I have ADHD too and I did what Samantha does but my limit is 57 pages. Because just like you, I also stopped reading books at 80% or 90% or even 50% because I feel like "Oh I get the gist of it" (mainly non-fiction), so I need a limit to say that I am DNF-ing a book. When I passed 57 pages, then I'm committed. Whenever I stopped reading after that, it is deemed finished. XDD
This video was super cute! My most recent reading habit is reading a book physically and listening to the audiobook at the same time. So currently, the way I pick my next book is checking what books that I own are on Storytel. This way I can finish a book faster cause I don't have the patience to read one book for days/weeks any more. I always listen to x2,2+ speed and sometimes, if I'm really into it, I can get to x3 :D
4:30 "But with fiction, there's some kind of purity..." I agree. It's also that I want to gobble down the story as quickly as possible without interruption. Hyperfocus. Need to know what happens.
This was fun! It's hilarious how differently ADD can present! I have to listen to TH-cam at 1.75-2x or my mind wanders. People talk waaaay too slowly! However, audiobooks I can only listen to at 1.25-1.4x depending on narrator. I need to feel like I'm being told a story, and faster than that, I find the voice too distorted for storytelling (as opposed to info extraction). And being told a story sucks me in. I'm also fine with 1x for stores, and used to always do that, until the pandemic and my time in the car cut way back and that's almost exclusively when I listen to audiobooks! Realizing I could read more than one book at a time has greatly increased my reading volume. While I have no memory for time, or what the date is, or many other things that everyone else does automatically, I can remember books and plots and have no problem putting a book down and picking it back up and remembering what happened before. It's also a reason I'm not much of a rereader I think - I don't forget books. I can also often find passages I want because I can remember that it was on the left or right side and about how far down the page is was (not the page number, but I can scan while I flip pages). I can't bear to write anything in books, nor do I annotate in any other way. Always having an ebook on my phone has also helped the "I need to have a book with me at all times" thing. But I read much more now that I read more books at a time, because I can get bored or tired of one book or medium, and I can switch to another story or audio or my screen and it refocuses me and I get more read. I always have one ebook, one audio, and a 1 or more physical books, and one in a different language going at a time - I do also try to mix up fic/non-fic/genre so it's not too much of the same thing. I *cannot* listen to music and read. Or listen to music and do much of anything; it's not that I don't like it, it's that it sucks me in so much that it becomes the hyperfocus and I can't concentrate on other things, or if I'm supposed to be doing tasks, I start bopping about instead.
I only read on my kindle app on my phone. It's allowed me to get back into reading after not being able to for years. It's because I'm ADHD/dyspraxic, so I need to not see so many lines at the same time, and I need to be able to not struggle with holding massive books. Also the green background setting helps with my migraines.
I used to walk through the hall of my school reading between periods. I was very badly bullied so it was a defense. Carrying books around as a comfort object is something I do too! I tend to read 2-3 books at once: one novel, one audiobook, and a graphic novel or manga. Now that I have kids who want to read longer books with me it's an additional 2 books.
Your patrons have a myriad of delightful reading habits. 1.25x is also my speed sweet spot for audiobooks. I often use classical music to block out background noises that might distract me, my favorite is Mahler #2 for reading or studying.
I've seen some people use transparent sticky paper to annotate. That way, they can add whatever notes they want without damaging the book. I've thought about trying that, but I don't like to stop and annotate. It messes with the flow of my reading. Maybe for re-reads.
I’ll use anything as a bookmark, as long as it won’t mess up the book. Also feeling like I haven’t really finished the book if I don’t read the acknowledgments. Great video.
I wouldn't say mine are weird (certainly not as chaotic as your lovely Patrons haha!!), but here's some of mine: 1) I always have one personal book, one bookclub book, and one audiobook going (on 2x speed) 2) I hardly ever read the same genre or tone back to back, but often I inadvertently pick books with similar themes but in different genres close together 3) If I didn't like a book, or even thought it was just ok, I have to unhaul it immediately (I can't even make it to a monthly wrap up!) because I can't stand the feeling of negative energy it gives off being in my home
1) I read first thing after I wake up at 5:30 am when its still dark, with candles burning, my little reading light clipped onto my book, and a giant cup of coffee 2) I take breaks to stop and smell the pages. Love new book smell and old book smell 3) Cannot do audiobooks. It goes in one ear and out the other. I'm a visual person. 4) I have to read in silence at home, but I CAN read in public with background noise. 5) I carry a book in my bag at all times. Like Stephen King said "Reading fills in those inevitable dead spots in life." I never get annoyed by a delay, its a chance to read! 6) In 2024, I got my very first ever library card. I'm doing a 'no buy' year to save money. 7) I've had the same little clip-on goose neck reading light for about fifteen years. It cost me ten dollars and has travelled the world with me, and if it ever breaks I will break too. lmao. 8) I have 148 unread books on my shelves. See #6. 9) I have 2 copies of my favourite books - one to loan out to other people or give as a gift; one I keep for myself. Why do I do this? It makes me feel secure or something. Like I always have a back up in case one gets ruined.
This was FUN! I'm a walking reader, too - it started when I was in high school (before there were portable audio books - I'm OLD) and I had to walk to school every day; it was just too much time to waste NOT reading!
Don’t know how many of these are weird habits but I use trading cards as bookmarks and use a new one when I start a new book, so if anyone picks up a book I have read they already have a bookmark enclosed (sometimes two if there’s an appendix). I also check how long a chapter is before I read it, constantly check how far along I’ve gotten, and imitate facial expressions as they’re described in the text. Fun video!
You're right on about loving pre-annotated & pre-loved books, but not wanting to mar your own. I love it when I find one because it is just so interesting and inspiring to see a stranger's takeaway that meant so much they had to write it right there in the book. Sometimes I am tempted, because I am addicted to office supplies, it does look very aesthetic, and sometimes certain passages call to me...but not so much that I go through with it. I've also been known to use found feathers as bookmarks. More power to all y'all who can just memorize your last page. It could never be me. I have a book on me at all times as well. Would love to hear about your favorite black/death metal!
I used to do the page number memorisation as a kid. Cracking the spine helps with that, books will tend to try and open to the page you were last at. Even preloved books have a better memory for where the most recent reader was than where previous readers were. Now I'm an everything can be a book mark reader. I have used other books as book marks before
I used to be like you - trying to keep all of my books in Pristine Condition (yes, with capitals). But lately, I've started to annotate some of the books I read. I do it in pencil, and when there's extensive thoughts I use a notebook instead, because it still feels like sacrilege on some level, but I must admit it makes for a richer reading experience. I don't think I have weird reading habits. Two things come to mind. The first is one I think a lot of people do: certain books must be read in certain seasons. The other one, I've never heard someone else do: I give every physical book I own its own unique bookmark. I either buy or make the bookmarks or use gifted cards etc.
I like to read out loud when i'm alone and say the dialogues in it in a dramatic way like I'm acting the scene. That makes it more fun for me. Can relate to listening to music while reading, helps me stay concentrated.
The "bringing a book wherever I go" was so relatable. I do that 99% of the time. Because ever since I move to Sweden 2,5 years ago, I have to commute to uni by train. And guys...the trains here are a fricking nightmare. They're always late or cancel for various reasons. Sometimes I only have to wait 5 minutes. But other times it can take hours! I kid you not...I had to my a matress to my friend's apartment so I can sleep there just in case the trains doesn't start working before midnight! So...yeah...I usually have one or two physical books with me and a couple of audiobooks downloaded out of habit...and it has come in handy many time 😅🙈
14:00 I, too, will skip ahead in a book if the current section doesn't hold my attention, but i find something more engaging when i jump ahead. It's a technique I've adopted as i get older. I've also become comfortable with DNFing for any reason i want, and with peeking at the end to see if it's worth the time and effort of reading the r3st.
11:54 Music I get, but listening to booktube videos while reading is incomprehensible to me! I respect it and I wish I could do it, but how can you concentrate on both?! I think my weirdest reading habit is that I'm usually reading 3 books in 3 formats at once: a physical book to read at home, an ebook to read during work breaks/on the go, and an audiobook to listen to while I'm working.
I read almost exclusively in my car. I am disabled and forced to to sit while I read. During the day I park near the tennis courts and enjoy the fresh air and the soothing lub-dub and shouts of the players. If the lot is full, I drive to the local cemetery. At night I read behind a nearby hotel until 2-3 a.m. (Not homeless, restless). There are 30-40 books in my trunk at any given time. Thank you so much for sharing your reviews. You inspire me to grow and challenge myself.
I'm not sure if it's a weird habit, but my partner bought me an embosser for my home library so I personally emboss the frontis piece of every book I own. I also carry a book nearly everywhere I go. It is like a security blanket. I don't even have to read it, I just carry it around.
Here's one of mine: i need to know where the book is going, either as i read i figure it out, or I've heard a review, even sometimes i like spoilers. Otherwise i can't get into it. Happened to me with "If on a winters night a traveler". Maybe it's an anxiety thing
I once saw a D&D alignment chart for what bookmarks people use and memorizing the page number was "lawful evil." Let's just say I'm currently reading three books and there are no bookmarks in sight. 😅 I also never buy fiction unless I've already read it. I pick up 100% of my fiction from the library and will buy a book if enjoy it and/or plan on rereading it. I'm still trying to figure out how to do this with nonfiction since I annotate so heavily. Currently, I'm using sticky tabs in the library book, will buy the book if I want it on my shelf long-term, and will then transfer over highlights.
I had forgotten how weird it was, but that one person in the video reminded me - I *always* read the last paragraph of a book first, and if I don't feel like that's enough I'll read a whole page's worth (most books don't finish lined up with the bottom of a page, so I approximate). I don't remember when or why I started that, but I'll also go back and re-read the last page of the book every so often throughout the book. I love starting a book with the end, holding that next to the beginning, and then seeing how the meaning of the last page unfolds itself as I keep reading I'm also one of Those People(tm) who can easily keep a dozen books going at once. They all have to be different vibes so I always have something to fit the mood I'm in, but I always have to have a bare minimum of 4: something SciFi, something Folklore, something Theology, and something Poetry
I'm not sure if this is a weird reading habit but I realized at some point that any book I'm reading and I'm enjoying, I'll leave it in bed with me when I go to sleep. If I'm not really enjoying the book, it ends up on my nightstand when I fall asleep. Even with Kindle books, if I'm liking it my Kindle stays on a pillow next to mine but if the book is ho-hum, my Kindle ends up on my nightstand.
Great video. I like to imagine my favourite actors as the characters in whatever novel I’m reading. I also like to change the genre of each book I read, even if it’s a trilogy. At the moment I’m reading ‘Our Share of Night’ and afterwards I’m going to be reading ‘The Long Goodbye’ by Raymond Chandler: horror followed by noir.
I feel vindicated re: listening to extreme metal while reading. People think I'm crazy for blasting black metal while studying, but for me it's just the right amount of brain stimulation to keep me on task without distracting me with comprehensible lyrics. For some reason I never listen to music at all while reading for pleasure, though.
I love this! It's also made me realise I'm such a normie lol. I use anything as a bookmark but apart from that, I'm very standard. One superpower though is that I can block out any and all background noise - it's good for reading but means that in professional settings I can completelt zone out from a meeting without realising, or not notice that my partner is talking to me if I'm reading.
i also enjoy walking and reading! my logic is that if people are able to scroll on their mobiles and walk at the same time, i can take my kindle while walking as well haha
I accidentally developed a weird habit or reading fiction in ebook format and non-fiction in audiobooks. I can process the latter quite well, but I usually struggle to follow a new-to-me novel as an audiobook 🤷♀️ It may be related to the fact that for twenty years, I’ve used familiar fiction audiobooks to help me get to sleep. I’m currently listening to Russell Tovey’s narration of The Picture of Dorian Gray and loving it. It’s been a minute since I’ve read it, but I have tickets to see Sarah Snook’s one-woman performance of the novel in London next month, so it was a perfect excuse ☺️
I'm the same in that non-fiction is much easier as an audiobook form than fiction - maybe because I've listened to podcasts for years so it just feels like an extension of that, and the writing style usually means you can slightly zone out and still take in info, whereas fiction often requires full attention to pick up on things
I'm very indecisive and function best with a lot of structure, so my life is full of algorithms that help me make small decisions. One of those algorithms is that I always read new books in the order in which I acquire them. I like to alternate between English and German books, so I keep numbered lists on my phone to help me remember which book is next in each language. I also like to keep one new read and one reread going at any given time, and I switch between the two when I reach chapter breaks. I reread books in the order in which they're shelved (I have a whole system for determining that exact order; it involves a spreadsheet). A lot of people think I'm going overboard on the rules, but it's fun for me. :)
I like to follow along in the print book while I'm listening to the audiobook. If I increase the reading speed, it helps me to improve my reading efficiency, and also forces me to focus. I can't just listen to the audiobook, because I start multitasking, and then I miss too much of the book, unless I'm really hooked on it.
Definitely always need to have an emergency book just in case. The idea of cutting a book into pieces makes me feel physically unwell. I worked at Canadian Smithbooks when I was in Uni (it’s where I met my husband). It affected how I organize my books: - non fiction by subject, then by author. -fiction by genre, and then by author. I put the ones I’ve read at the front (that is not a large number).
My strangest habit is reading in the sauna while it’s heating up. I put the fire on, go lay on the bench to read my book and when it’s hot enough I put my book away, take off my clothes and go to sauna 😄 Just Finnish things I guess 😂
I only have one personal habit: when i finish a book, i leave my bookmark on the last page, always. And it stays there forever. If i reread, i use it again, but never in a different book. I started doing it when i realised i had too many bookmarks and postcards that i didn't even buy, they just come with almost every book purchase and it annoyed me too much. But now this habit has it's symbolic meaning, even though i struggle to explain what it symbolises exactly😊
I like to read while listening to instrumental jazz or classical music. I also like to put a book down after finishing a chapter. when I read fiction I have to write down all the characters mentioned otherwise I lose track of them. I only read one novel at a time.
1. I have to finish every book (fiction) I read. The only book I never finished was "Moby Dick." -Series can be hard because I sometimes think of them as one long book, so a series is never really dropped, but TBR. 2. I have to have music on when I read. 3. I love to annotate in my books ever since college, when I found out I was allowed to, which makes reading library books so hard now.
I keep a list of all the books i have read and also remember (almost) every book i've read since i was small - so last year i set myself the task to read my 1000th book before i turn 45 - i just reached this goal tonight (eight months before my 45th).
I don't have ADHD, but I do read 15 books at a time, & around 1,000 pages a day. Only non-fiction for me, but all different subjects, things I'm interested in learning. When I finish a book, I start a new one of that subject. I just love learning things & how to be a better human. Also, well done on talking about other people's reading habits while celebrating creativity & being inclusive. Mockery & making fun of people loses points in my book, so to speak. I enjoy your vibe.
I never check how many pages a book has. I like to take a guess and see if I'm right at the end. It has also become tradition that on vacations I read a book that makes me cry like crazy. I don't go for these books intentionally, but it just keeps happening.
I, also, donate all my books (except my Terry Pratchett's Discworld and Redwall books) when I'm through with them. I'd rather see them making someone else happy than having the books collecting dust at home.
I always thought using anything as a bookmark was completely normal. I've somehow acquired two playing cards with slasher killers (Freddy and Jason) on them and have been using them recently
Big same, I too have adhd and can only focus on one book at a time. If I start multiple books, _none_ of them will get finished. 😅 Also I wanna be _in_ the world, and I can't really do that unless it's one at a time. On that note, being able to focus on reading while walking? Very impressive. My dad was always extremely careful about his books (and other items), so doing any amount of "damage" (dog-earing, writing) (but not whatever those mini post-its are called, the marker things) to a book is unimaginable to me. I don't mind when other people do it to their books, like it's your book, you do whatever the heck you want, but I get stressed when people go near mine. 😅 Also I'm ok with burning books if it's Fifty shades of abuse. The association thing, yeah, with music. Lately not so much, but I used to have songs on repeat, just like one song for days, and then I would associate the book I was reading with it, even to this day, years later, I would hear a song and I would be in that world. I wouldn't remember details, but the mood and the feels. Can't listen to anything with lyrics though, and it has to be something neutral, otherwise I can't focus. At some point long past I was able to remember the page I was on, sometimes I still do, but I mostly read on kindle these days so there's no need.
1) I also write and walk. More than once I have NEARLY crashed against a streetlight because of this. I somehow stopped on my tracks in the nick of time every time. 2) Using anything as a bookmark. Tickets from the supermarket, the TV remote control... completely random. I've also not used bookmarks often AND remember the page number I was at. 3) I dont write on the books, as you say I dont like spoiling the paper. 4) I always have like 4 books that I'm reading at the same time. For the most part I CANT read only one book at a time, I get so bored. I have ADHD.
I always have a book in my purse. I have tons of books in progress at any one time. Kathy B Expired coupons make good bookmarks.
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A weird habit that i have is that when it's time to pick a new read i ask my loved ones in the same order. I ask them for a number and then I'll count in my tbr (1. Ask mom, 2. Ask dad, 3. Ask my partner)
I'll double bookmark my books. Meaning if the book I am reading has a silk strap built into it, I will use that and a book mark with a tassle on top of it. I also always write out my thoughts or dissect a story always on my phones note app whether it's fiction or not.
I'd eventually like to read some historical fiction, but I'd like to read some historical nonfiction first. That way I can tell to some extent what sort of research the fiction author did or didn't do in the writing process. Most people who read historical fiction don't read historical nonfiction and visa versa, so wanting to read both is strange apparently.
7:55 I love how it's page 107 specifically. Likes it's not 100 or 110, 120 or 150. Not its specifically page 107 and if they get to 108 it's confirmed commitment xD
I used to do the reading and walking thing until I ate it, hard, on my way to work and had to work with pants (trousers) ripped at the knees, skinned knees, and visible scrapes and bruises. Now I stick to audio books (at 1.5 speed) when walking. My weird reading habit is that I have to find the exact middle of the book and put a bookmark there while reading. It's a progress marker, I suppose.
Not sure if it counts as weird but I often don't research books I start reading, like at all. Someone recommends it, or if I just see it on a picture somewhere, then I might get it and start reading without knowing much of anything, maybe only based on genre and title. If it is physical book I read the blurb, but for ebooks I might not even do that. Makes reading a book extra exciting since I have no idea what is it about. (I first read 'the long way to a small angry planet' because I found the title hilarious, did not know anything else about the book, and I regret nothing, it's one of my favorites now) I also use a lot of random things as bookmarks, but it has to be flat and thing enough, so they are mostly random paper, I often use the receipt I got when buying the book, or occasionally pressed leaves or flowers. I used to do the remembering the page number, but I got too distracted for that so now I don't want to risk it. I sometimes start multiple books but it never ends well. Half of my books I have with me currently, I've started but have not finished, and not because I didn't enjoy them, just life got busy. This and the fact that I have a shit memory, results in that I often don't remember if I fully read a book or just started it 😬
What a great idea to skip ahead instead of DNFing! I do it for TV all the time, why not books. I also absolutely cut up fat classics. War & Peace got quartered.
I would say my weirdest reading habit is alternating books in French and English if they are of the same genre or if I'm reading more than one (usually two) books at the same time. Loved this video a lot! Did the person reading the same audio book every night say which one it is? Curious to find out. 🖤
I don't use a bookmark of any kind nor do i remember the pagenumber. I just close my book and hope the wear in the pages will return me to the correct spot if not i jsut read the first few word every couple of pages untill i reach some i don't recognise XD it also means that if i was reading in a rush i don't remember the words well so acccidently reread a chapter or two which is actually a feature and not a bug, because if i don't remember reading the beginning words of those pages i did not give them their proper attention.
If I enjoy a book too much, I'll look up a plor summary or skip to rhe end if I can't find one. That way I can actually put it down and go to sleep, and also enjoy the journey better.
My weird book habit is that I ONLY audio and E-book…but but buy a physical copy of my 5 star books. I never physically read…bending the spine gives me extreme anxiety
I have ADHD as well. I get the discipline thing. But I feel like there are enough things in the world that force me to have discipline and regulate my actions. But I chose to read for fun. If it's not fun for me, then what's the point. I try not to regulate my hobbies because they're for fun. So, I read an average od 3-7 books at a time. Sometimes more. That way, if I get bored of a book, I can switch to something else for a few days without DNFing it. If I like the book, often I will just cycle back to it in a few days. I also have an extra category I include with TBR, currently reading, finished, and DNFed. It's called paused. If, for whatever reason, I take an extended break from a book (2+ weeks), but I'm still enjoying it and want to finish it at some point, I add it to my paused category. This doesn't 100% guarantee that I will eventually finish it. But it gives me a list of books that may be worth returning to
Now the most important thing about reading the same book every night, what book is it? Also i always read multiple books, but my goal for january was to finish those books, and i did, but now i only have one book im currently reading so and i hate it
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1) Counting the pages before I start a new chapter every time.
2) OCD needing to read every word in the book cover and all.
3) Bathroom reading often.
4) Listening to audio while reading along with a book when I enjoy the narration of a book.
5) Needing peace quiet and darkness when I reading aloud to myself every word to help me focus my mind on the book.
6) Creating a soundtrack for my favorite books.
7) My brain seeing the appearance of a character’s differently than than the author describes often.
Those first two points are so much of what I do too. I will often look ahead at how long the next chapter is or how long a short story is before beginning, so I know what to expect for length. I also don't skip introductions or forewords, and will even read notes depending on the book.
2) Not the cover and all, but the content definitely. No logic to it, but I gotta.
7) _Oh yeah._ And then getting jolted out of the story when a bit of their appearance is mentioned and you gotta adjust (but then go right back to your image).
I love having a book with me at all times, but hate how they can get all banged up in my purse. Especially if it’s a vintage book, like my 1970s hardback of how to learn Norwegian (before they branded everything “Teach Yourself X”). So I crochet little book cozies with light colored cotton yarn. Future project: little crochet “belts” to hold trilogies together in my home library.
I love that! My partner crochets lots of cute things as well, and I carry my books out in a cute hand-made sleeve I bought on Etsy
Omg yes to the eradication of overhead lamps lol. I have one of those lamps that I can put around my neck
When I read, especially at night (but not exclusively), I put my headphones on and listen to Sounds. For example, Rain and thunder, snow on lake, Crackling fires with rain in the background etc….things like that. I find those sounds comforting and it cuts out any distractions around me.
I also walk & read too. Started when I was about 14 yrs old. I used to read as I walked to school & back. It was almost a straight line from my house to school, it was roughly a 10 min walk. So a chance to get a bit more reading in 😊
I also did it in the last 3-4 years, in my village. I’d walk my youngest to school, then read on my way back home.
I do also take a book with me everywhere. Even if i KNOW I wont have a chance to read it. I take a physical book and my Kindle. Like the other person said, it’s My comfort “blanket”. I need to know it’s there.
Great video, thanks Willow. I watch every video but first time commenting. Great work 😊
I love all of this :)
I definitely prefer to have ambient sound in the background when I'm reading, especially at night!
@@tyghe_bright Ambient! Thank you! I was up all night with a poorly kitten, keeping an eye on him, (which is how I was actually able to watch the video when it was posted), So I was tired this morning and I couldn’t for the life of me remember the word “Ambient” 🤦♀️ Lol. Thank you!
@@tyghe_bright And yes, I completely agree. It depends what mood I’m in as to what I choose to listen to.
I sometimes though match the sounds with the story. For example, when I read Thin Air by Michelle Paver, I listened to Snow/ Blizzard sounds. I find it gives a bit more depth to the story.
That sounds ultrea cozy! Now I want ambiance to fit the book
33% is my DNF point, I love that some people have such specific page numbers! I always, _always_ prime a physical book before reading it, softening the spine and pages so they're easier to read, the spine is less likely to crack, and large books don't do that 'slowly bending over to one side' thing over time. I'm the same with reading with music - nothing with lyrics or only with lyrics I can't understand, so for me it's a lot of synthwave or dark ambiance. I read multiple at a time, but they all have to be different genres and formats: one physical fiction, one physical nonfiction, poetry collection, digitial fiction, audiobook, etc...
I suppose my weirdest reading habit is that I have to be set up in a super specific way to read a physical book 😅 I need a cushion to rest the book and my wrists on that isn't allowed to be used for anything else (although my lizard sometimes sleeps under it), I have to be able to lay the book down instead of holding it up, and I also get really particular about the paper texture thanks to sensory stuff. I get so uncomfortable holding physical books that I could probably never walk while reading them, but who knows, I live near a really nice park so maybe I'll have to try sometime!
Although I could never in a million years do it myself, I have a lot of respect (fear?) for people who dismantle their books. If it helps them read the book, then all for it!
I totally respect the specific reading position. If it’s a hardcover book, I have to read it while sitting on my sofa with a cushion on my lap to support the book
Whenever my dad sits down to read, he always pauses after 1-2 pages or so to tell whoever's in the room about what happened in the story and what he liked about it. It would be endearing if I wasn't usually trying to read a book myself next to him on the couch. My mum likes to joke she "reads" every book my dad reads because of this habit.
I don't have a lot of weird reading habits myself, though I did used to read the last sentence of a book before starting it (it's fun, I recommend it). And I tend to unconsciously pull weird faces while reading in reaction to whatever's happening in the story. It's alright when I'm at home, but it can make me feel self-conscious when I'm reading a horror book in the train or something.
I have a similar problem. Whenever I open a book, my boyfriend opens his mouth. I usually have to point out that I'm trying to read a book three times before he shuts it again lol
I though, that my habits are not weird, so I didn’t comment on Patreon. Though, I have one pretty specific: I try to find music that associates with the book I am reading, works awesome with historical fiction, if the period music has any records (wherever it is contemporary recordings of Medieval music, or records of songs from 1930s). Fantasy is pretty easy to pair with music. Mysteries. There are playlists for book genres, sometimes I try them.
Lollllll the headlamp is such a GLORIOUS visual
Definitely relate to a lot of these! I always have 2-4 books going at once, I will use weird things for bookmarks (if needed). Usually one the simultaneous books "lives" in each of my two bathrooms - because that's where I'm most likely to be able to read 5-15 min at a time during the day!
I don't annotate or use sticky tabs...but what I DO do is keep a bunch of slips of paper in the back while I'm reading to mark spots I want to go back to when I write my review. If I then read this book while in the bath, those tabs at that back have about a 40:60 chance of falling out and making a glob of cellulose in the water.
Also, unless what I'm reading is explicitly a mystery, I almost always WANT spoilers! At the very least, I will usually look up what the story is about and a few key things that happen. I think it is a combination of having been unpleasantly surprised by events or tone shifts that I wasn't in the mood for, as well as loving the craft of planting and payoff. If I know a key event, I can enjoy spotting the foreshadowing without HAVING to re-read the book (which I often will anyway). Also, sometimes publishers and reviewers treat things like A BOOK HAVING QUEER CHARACTERS as a spoiler if that is only revealed halfway through (or, better yet "this book has queer characters that DON'T DIE1") - no, I want to know that up front because that's a selling point for me!
Mine is listening to audiobooks on much faster speed (otherwise I fall asleep), listening to music in different language than the book I'm reading and having a super slow reading speed when reading physical paper books.
I have sometimes used books as bookmarks. Sometimes I have read a book one chapter at a time thus not needing a bookmark.
I can read with no music, but sometimes I put on jazz in the background.
My weird reading habit is flipping pages as I read. I just love the sound and feel as I read, especially when the pages are pleasingly "flippable". Just back and forth, flip-flip, flipping a page wherever I'm at on a book. It helps me to focus. I even just have a magazine, full of thumbed-out pages, that I flip when I am doddering about on the internet. I'll even do it with video-games in cutscenes and dialogue heavy sections or reading in-game material, such as lore.
I haven't come across anyone else who seems to do this, so this video has given me an avenue to reach out to any fellow flippers that may be out there!
Part of me believes this is my ultimate stim, from the result of masking as I grew up, and it developed into this habit. I still feel internal shame in public, so I do my best not to do that, but as I improve my confidence and self-esteem, I am slowly but surely aiming to flip pages in public without shame :D
(I also love listening to Dark Ambience as I read from time to time!)
#findtheflippers
Thank you for introducing the word "doddering" into the conversation. I love it!
And, for what it's worth, I say flip away. Flip in private, in small groups, in public. Become the Ambassador of Page Flipping. Who knows? Maybe seeing you shamelessly stim in public will help normalize it for someone else who's just too effing exhausted to keep masking.
hi, it's been 6 months since you posted this, but I also constantly flip the pages of whatever I'm reading lol
Whatever side of the open book has more pages, I'm running my finger along the corner so they continuously make that delightful page-flipping sound. Also, if there's a lull in the text, I'm flipping back a page or two to skim over and make sure I didn't miss anything and the sound wakes me up and helps me refocus
Great video and LOVE your necklaces! I always have a book with me and never buy a handbag that doesnt fit a book.
This was highly entertaining. 😂 Recently I've started listening more at 1.5x, but 2x is still my preferred speed. 😊 Also you look really beautiful in this video 🥹
I used to read under the cover with a headlamp when i was a child lol
Me too! And then I pretended to be asleep when I heard my parents’ footsteps coming up the stairs, but continued reading after they were gone :3
My weird reading habits:
I can't stop reading mid-chapter, so I'm really annoyed with books that have no chapters at all.
And I read paperbacks half-closed so the spine doesn't crack.
Oh, and I hardly ever DNF books because I just have to know the ending. (It's the same with tv shows or movies, so I have to be careful when switching channels or otherwise I'll be hooked to some stupid show or movie.)
Yes! I get super annoyed when there's no chapters in a book as well! It messes up x chapters a day planning.
I listen to music whilst reading too, to drown out the noise of everyone else on my commute. But only foreign (to me) speaking language music that I don't understand, or an album I've heard so many times I can zone it out and focus on the book!
looool I have ADHD too and I did what Samantha does but my limit is 57 pages. Because just like you, I also stopped reading books at 80% or 90% or even 50% because I feel like "Oh I get the gist of it" (mainly non-fiction), so I need a limit to say that I am DNF-ing a book. When I passed 57 pages, then I'm committed. Whenever I stopped reading after that, it is deemed finished. XDD
This video was super cute! My most recent reading habit is reading a book physically and listening to the audiobook at the same time. So currently, the way I pick my next book is checking what books that I own are on Storytel. This way I can finish a book faster cause I don't have the patience to read one book for days/weeks any more. I always listen to x2,2+ speed and sometimes, if I'm really into it, I can get to x3 :D
4:30 "But with fiction, there's some kind of purity..." I agree. It's also that I want to gobble down the story as quickly as possible without interruption. Hyperfocus. Need to know what happens.
This was fun! It's hilarious how differently ADD can present!
I have to listen to TH-cam at 1.75-2x or my mind wanders. People talk waaaay too slowly! However, audiobooks I can only listen to at 1.25-1.4x depending on narrator. I need to feel like I'm being told a story, and faster than that, I find the voice too distorted for storytelling (as opposed to info extraction). And being told a story sucks me in. I'm also fine with 1x for stores, and used to always do that, until the pandemic and my time in the car cut way back and that's almost exclusively when I listen to audiobooks!
Realizing I could read more than one book at a time has greatly increased my reading volume. While I have no memory for time, or what the date is, or many other things that everyone else does automatically, I can remember books and plots and have no problem putting a book down and picking it back up and remembering what happened before. It's also a reason I'm not much of a rereader I think - I don't forget books. I can also often find passages I want because I can remember that it was on the left or right side and about how far down the page is was (not the page number, but I can scan while I flip pages). I can't bear to write anything in books, nor do I annotate in any other way. Always having an ebook on my phone has also helped the "I need to have a book with me at all times" thing. But I read much more now that I read more books at a time, because I can get bored or tired of one book or medium, and I can switch to another story or audio or my screen and it refocuses me and I get more read. I always have one ebook, one audio, and a 1 or more physical books, and one in a different language going at a time - I do also try to mix up fic/non-fic/genre so it's not too much of the same thing.
I *cannot* listen to music and read. Or listen to music and do much of anything; it's not that I don't like it, it's that it sucks me in so much that it becomes the hyperfocus and I can't concentrate on other things, or if I'm supposed to be doing tasks, I start bopping about instead.
I only read on my kindle app on my phone. It's allowed me to get back into reading after not being able to for years. It's because I'm ADHD/dyspraxic, so I need to not see so many lines at the same time, and I need to be able to not struggle with holding massive books. Also the green background setting helps with my migraines.
I used weird things for bookmarking: toothpicks, straws, serviettes (unused), even shoelaces when desperate.
I used to walk through the hall of my school reading between periods. I was very badly bullied so it was a defense. Carrying books around as a comfort object is something I do too! I tend to read 2-3 books at once: one novel, one audiobook, and a graphic novel or manga. Now that I have kids who want to read longer books with me it's an additional 2 books.
Your patrons have a myriad of delightful reading habits. 1.25x is also my speed sweet spot for audiobooks. I often use classical music to block out background noises that might distract me, my favorite is Mahler #2 for reading or studying.
you made me remember lots of quirky things i used to do as a kid. I should do them again they were fun
I've seen some people use transparent sticky paper to annotate. That way, they can add whatever notes they want without damaging the book. I've thought about trying that, but I don't like to stop and annotate. It messes with the flow of my reading. Maybe for re-reads.
I used to walk home from school with a book and my headphones on to destress, too! Granted it wasn't a super busy city but still😂
I’ll use anything as a bookmark, as long as it won’t mess up the book. Also feeling like I haven’t really finished the book if I don’t read the acknowledgments.
Great video.
Love this so much! I also can't mark up fiction books. I feel you!
I wouldn't say mine are weird (certainly not as chaotic as your lovely Patrons haha!!), but here's some of mine:
1) I always have one personal book, one bookclub book, and one audiobook going (on 2x speed)
2) I hardly ever read the same genre or tone back to back, but often I inadvertently pick books with similar themes but in different genres close together
3) If I didn't like a book, or even thought it was just ok, I have to unhaul it immediately (I can't even make it to a monthly wrap up!) because I can't stand the feeling of negative energy it gives off being in my home
1) I read first thing after I wake up at 5:30 am when its still dark, with candles burning, my little reading light clipped onto my book, and a giant cup of coffee
2) I take breaks to stop and smell the pages. Love new book smell and old book smell
3) Cannot do audiobooks. It goes in one ear and out the other. I'm a visual person.
4) I have to read in silence at home, but I CAN read in public with background noise.
5) I carry a book in my bag at all times. Like Stephen King said "Reading fills in those inevitable dead spots in life." I never get annoyed by a delay, its a chance to read!
6) In 2024, I got my very first ever library card. I'm doing a 'no buy' year to save money.
7) I've had the same little clip-on goose neck reading light for about fifteen years. It cost me ten dollars and has travelled the world with me, and if it ever breaks I will break too. lmao.
8) I have 148 unread books on my shelves. See #6.
9) I have 2 copies of my favourite books - one to loan out to other people or give as a gift; one I keep for myself. Why do I do this? It makes me feel secure or something. Like I always have a back up in case one gets ruined.
This was FUN! I'm a walking reader, too - it started when I was in high school (before there were portable audio books - I'm OLD) and I had to walk to school every day; it was just too much time to waste NOT reading!
Don’t know how many of these are weird habits but I use trading cards as bookmarks and use a new one when I start a new book, so if anyone picks up a book I have read they already have a bookmark enclosed (sometimes two if there’s an appendix). I also check how long a chapter is before I read it, constantly check how far along I’ve gotten, and imitate facial expressions as they’re described in the text.
Fun video!
You're right on about loving pre-annotated & pre-loved books, but not wanting to mar your own. I love it when I find one because it is just so interesting and inspiring to see a stranger's takeaway that meant so much they had to write it right there in the book. Sometimes I am tempted, because I am addicted to office supplies, it does look very aesthetic, and sometimes certain passages call to me...but not so much that I go through with it.
I've also been known to use found feathers as bookmarks. More power to all y'all who can just memorize your last page. It could never be me.
I have a book on me at all times as well.
Would love to hear about your favorite black/death metal!
I used to do the page number memorisation as a kid. Cracking the spine helps with that, books will tend to try and open to the page you were last at. Even preloved books have a better memory for where the most recent reader was than where previous readers were.
Now I'm an everything can be a book mark reader. I have used other books as book marks before
I used to be like you - trying to keep all of my books in Pristine Condition (yes, with capitals). But lately, I've started to annotate some of the books I read. I do it in pencil, and when there's extensive thoughts I use a notebook instead, because it still feels like sacrilege on some level, but I must admit it makes for a richer reading experience.
I don't think I have weird reading habits. Two things come to mind. The first is one I think a lot of people do: certain books must be read in certain seasons. The other one, I've never heard someone else do: I give every physical book I own its own unique bookmark. I either buy or make the bookmarks or use gifted cards etc.
I like to read out loud when i'm alone and say the dialogues in it in a dramatic way like I'm acting the scene. That makes it more fun for me.
Can relate to listening to music while reading, helps me stay concentrated.
The "bringing a book wherever I go" was so relatable. I do that 99% of the time. Because ever since I move to Sweden 2,5 years ago, I have to commute to uni by train.
And guys...the trains here are a fricking nightmare. They're always late or cancel for various reasons. Sometimes I only have to wait 5 minutes. But other times it can take hours! I kid you not...I had to my a matress to my friend's apartment so I can sleep there just in case the trains doesn't start working before midnight!
So...yeah...I usually have one or two physical books with me and a couple of audiobooks downloaded out of habit...and it has come in handy many time 😅🙈
14:00 I, too, will skip ahead in a book if the current section doesn't hold my attention, but i find something more engaging when i jump ahead. It's a technique I've adopted as i get older. I've also become comfortable with DNFing for any reason i want, and with peeking at the end to see if it's worth the time and effort of reading the r3st.
11:54 Music I get, but listening to booktube videos while reading is incomprehensible to me! I respect it and I wish I could do it, but how can you concentrate on both?!
I think my weirdest reading habit is that I'm usually reading 3 books in 3 formats at once: a physical book to read at home, an ebook to read during work breaks/on the go, and an audiobook to listen to while I'm working.
I read almost exclusively in my car. I am disabled and forced to to sit while I read. During the day I park near the tennis courts and enjoy the fresh air and the soothing lub-dub and shouts of the players. If the lot is full, I drive to the local cemetery. At night I read behind a nearby hotel until 2-3 a.m. (Not homeless, restless). There are 30-40 books in my trunk at any given time.
Thank you so much for sharing your reviews. You inspire me to grow and challenge myself.
I'm not sure if it's a weird habit, but my partner bought me an embosser for my home library so I personally emboss the frontis piece of every book I own.
I also carry a book nearly everywhere I go. It is like a security blanket. I don't even have to read it, I just carry it around.
Here's one of mine: i need to know where the book is going, either as i read i figure it out, or I've heard a review, even sometimes i like spoilers. Otherwise i can't get into it. Happened to me with "If on a winters night a traveler". Maybe it's an anxiety thing
I once saw a D&D alignment chart for what bookmarks people use and memorizing the page number was "lawful evil." Let's just say I'm currently reading three books and there are no bookmarks in sight. 😅
I also never buy fiction unless I've already read it. I pick up 100% of my fiction from the library and will buy a book if enjoy it and/or plan on rereading it. I'm still trying to figure out how to do this with nonfiction since I annotate so heavily. Currently, I'm using sticky tabs in the library book, will buy the book if I want it on my shelf long-term, and will then transfer over highlights.
I had forgotten how weird it was, but that one person in the video reminded me - I *always* read the last paragraph of a book first, and if I don't feel like that's enough I'll read a whole page's worth (most books don't finish lined up with the bottom of a page, so I approximate). I don't remember when or why I started that, but I'll also go back and re-read the last page of the book every so often throughout the book. I love starting a book with the end, holding that next to the beginning, and then seeing how the meaning of the last page unfolds itself as I keep reading
I'm also one of Those People(tm) who can easily keep a dozen books going at once. They all have to be different vibes so I always have something to fit the mood I'm in, but I always have to have a bare minimum of 4: something SciFi, something Folklore, something Theology, and something Poetry
I too walk and read-but just around my apartment. Glad I’m not the only one:)
I'm not sure if this is a weird reading habit but I realized at some point that any book I'm reading and I'm enjoying, I'll leave it in bed with me when I go to sleep. If I'm not really enjoying the book, it ends up on my nightstand when I fall asleep. Even with Kindle books, if I'm liking it my Kindle stays on a pillow next to mine but if the book is ho-hum, my Kindle ends up on my nightstand.
Great video.
I like to imagine my favourite actors as the characters in whatever novel I’m reading.
I also like to change the genre of each book I read, even if it’s a trilogy. At the moment I’m reading ‘Our Share of Night’ and afterwards I’m going to be reading ‘The Long Goodbye’ by Raymond Chandler: horror followed by noir.
I feel vindicated re: listening to extreme metal while reading. People think I'm crazy for blasting black metal while studying, but for me it's just the right amount of brain stimulation to keep me on task without distracting me with comprehensible lyrics. For some reason I never listen to music at all while reading for pleasure, though.
I love reading and walking!
I love this! It's also made me realise I'm such a normie lol. I use anything as a bookmark but apart from that, I'm very standard. One superpower though is that I can block out any and all background noise - it's good for reading but means that in professional settings I can completelt zone out from a meeting without realising, or not notice that my partner is talking to me if I'm reading.
I personally need absolute silence when I’m reading or at least the monotone sound in a train/plane.
i also enjoy walking and reading! my logic is that if people are able to scroll on their mobiles and walk at the same time, i can take my kindle while walking as well haha
I accidentally developed a weird habit or reading fiction in ebook format and non-fiction in audiobooks. I can process the latter quite well, but I usually struggle to follow a new-to-me novel as an audiobook 🤷♀️ It may be related to the fact that for twenty years, I’ve used familiar fiction audiobooks to help me get to sleep.
I’m currently listening to Russell Tovey’s narration of The Picture of Dorian Gray and loving it. It’s been a minute since I’ve read it, but I have tickets to see Sarah Snook’s one-woman performance of the novel in London next month, so it was a perfect excuse ☺️
Omg Russell Tovey is SUCH an underrated actor! That’s awesome :)
I'm the same in that non-fiction is much easier as an audiobook form than fiction - maybe because I've listened to podcasts for years so it just feels like an extension of that, and the writing style usually means you can slightly zone out and still take in info, whereas fiction often requires full attention to pick up on things
I'm very indecisive and function best with a lot of structure, so my life is full of algorithms that help me make small decisions. One of those algorithms is that I always read new books in the order in which I acquire them. I like to alternate between English and German books, so I keep numbered lists on my phone to help me remember which book is next in each language. I also like to keep one new read and one reread going at any given time, and I switch between the two when I reach chapter breaks. I reread books in the order in which they're shelved (I have a whole system for determining that exact order; it involves a spreadsheet). A lot of people think I'm going overboard on the rules, but it's fun for me. :)
I like to follow along in the print book while I'm listening to the audiobook. If I increase the reading speed, it helps me to improve my reading efficiency, and also forces me to focus. I can't just listen to the audiobook, because I start multitasking, and then I miss too much of the book, unless I'm really hooked on it.
Definitely always need to have an emergency book just in case.
The idea of cutting a book into pieces makes me feel physically unwell.
I worked at Canadian Smithbooks when I was in Uni (it’s where I met my husband). It affected how I organize my books:
- non fiction by subject, then by author.
-fiction by genre, and then by author. I put the ones I’ve read at the front (that is not a large number).
My strangest habit is reading in the sauna while it’s heating up. I put the fire on, go lay on the bench to read my book and when it’s hot enough I put my book away, take off my clothes and go to sauna 😄 Just Finnish things I guess 😂
I only have one personal habit: when i finish a book, i leave my bookmark on the last page, always. And it stays there forever. If i reread, i use it again, but never in a different book. I started doing it when i realised i had too many bookmarks and postcards that i didn't even buy, they just come with almost every book purchase and it annoyed me too much. But now this habit has it's symbolic meaning, even though i struggle to explain what it symbolises exactly😊
I like to read while listening to instrumental jazz or classical music. I also like to put a book down after finishing a chapter. when I read fiction I have to write down all the characters mentioned otherwise I lose track of them. I only read one novel at a time.
I poll my friends on social media for what I should read next out of four or five options and then read the books in order of most to least voted on.
1. I have to finish every book (fiction) I read. The only book I never finished was "Moby Dick."
-Series can be hard because I sometimes think of them as one long book, so a series is never really dropped, but TBR.
2. I have to have music on when I read.
3. I love to annotate in my books ever since college, when I found out I was allowed to, which makes reading library books so hard now.
I read with a headband light to because I like my room dim... they are common , and I ordered two from Amazon.. 👍🏽... 🤓🤓....📚📚📚....😝😝
I keep a list of all the books i have read and also remember (almost) every book i've read since i was small - so last year i set myself the task to read my 1000th book before i turn 45 - i just reached this goal tonight (eight months before my 45th).
I don't have ADHD, but I do read 15 books at a time, & around 1,000 pages a day. Only non-fiction for me, but all different subjects, things I'm interested in learning. When I finish a book, I start a new one of that subject. I just love learning things & how to be a better human.
Also, well done on talking about other people's reading habits while celebrating creativity & being inclusive. Mockery & making fun of people loses points in my book, so to speak. I enjoy your vibe.
I never check how many pages a book has. I like to take a guess and see if I'm right at the end. It has also become tradition that on vacations I read a book that makes me cry like crazy. I don't go for these books intentionally, but it just keeps happening.
I, also, donate all my books (except my Terry Pratchett's Discworld and Redwall books) when I'm through with them. I'd rather see them making someone else happy than having the books collecting dust at home.
I always thought using anything as a bookmark was completely normal. I've somehow acquired two playing cards with slasher killers (Freddy and Jason) on them and have been using them recently
Sniffing every book just before I go to read it. Deliciously papery..
Bruh I use to read and walk at the same time too 😭 Belle lied to us both.
LOL
Big same, I too have adhd and can only focus on one book at a time. If I start multiple books, _none_ of them will get finished. 😅 Also I wanna be _in_ the world, and I can't really do that unless it's one at a time. On that note, being able to focus on reading while walking? Very impressive.
My dad was always extremely careful about his books (and other items), so doing any amount of "damage" (dog-earing, writing) (but not whatever those mini post-its are called, the marker things) to a book is unimaginable to me. I don't mind when other people do it to their books, like it's your book, you do whatever the heck you want, but I get stressed when people go near mine. 😅
Also I'm ok with burning books if it's Fifty shades of abuse.
The association thing, yeah, with music. Lately not so much, but I used to have songs on repeat, just like one song for days, and then I would associate the book I was reading with it, even to this day, years later, I would hear a song and I would be in that world. I wouldn't remember details, but the mood and the feels. Can't listen to anything with lyrics though, and it has to be something neutral, otherwise I can't focus.
At some point long past I was able to remember the page I was on, sometimes I still do, but I mostly read on kindle these days so there's no need.
1) I also write and walk. More than once I have NEARLY crashed against a streetlight because of this. I somehow stopped on my tracks in the nick of time every time.
2) Using anything as a bookmark. Tickets from the supermarket, the TV remote control... completely random. I've also not used bookmarks often AND remember the page number I was at.
3) I dont write on the books, as you say I dont like spoiling the paper.
4) I always have like 4 books that I'm reading at the same time. For the most part I CANT read only one book at a time, I get so bored. I have ADHD.
I'm a mood reader so I'm in the middle of several books. 📚
I have something similar with listening to music when reading but I have to listen to Jazz or Post-rock where there's no lyrics
I always have a book in my purse.
I have tons of books in progress at any one time.
Kathy B
Expired coupons make good bookmarks.
A weird habit that i have is that when it's time to pick a new read i ask my loved ones in the same order. I ask them for a number and then I'll count in my tbr (1. Ask mom, 2. Ask dad, 3. Ask my partner)
yay for diverse brains & books!👏✨📚🧠
To the person who advocated cutting up books... Reading through "House of Leaves" must have been an awful nightmare for you. Haha
I'll double bookmark my books. Meaning if the book I am reading has a silk strap built into it, I will use that and a book mark with a tassle on top of it. I also always write out my thoughts or dissect a story always on my phones note app whether it's fiction or not.
I'd eventually like to read some historical fiction, but I'd like to read some historical nonfiction first. That way I can tell to some extent what sort of research the fiction author did or didn't do in the writing process. Most people who read historical fiction don't read historical nonfiction and visa versa, so wanting to read both is strange apparently.
7:55 I love how it's page 107 specifically. Likes it's not 100 or 110, 120 or 150. Not its specifically page 107 and if they get to 108 it's confirmed commitment xD
I used to do the reading and walking thing until I ate it, hard, on my way to work and had to work with pants (trousers) ripped at the knees, skinned knees, and visible scrapes and bruises. Now I stick to audio books (at 1.5 speed) when walking.
My weird reading habit is that I have to find the exact middle of the book and put a bookmark there while reading. It's a progress marker, I suppose.
Not sure if it counts as weird but I often don't research books I start reading, like at all. Someone recommends it, or if I just see it on a picture somewhere, then I might get it and start reading without knowing much of anything, maybe only based on genre and title. If it is physical book I read the blurb, but for ebooks I might not even do that. Makes reading a book extra exciting since I have no idea what is it about. (I first read 'the long way to a small angry planet' because I found the title hilarious, did not know anything else about the book, and I regret nothing, it's one of my favorites now)
I also use a lot of random things as bookmarks, but it has to be flat and thing enough, so they are mostly random paper, I often use the receipt I got when buying the book, or occasionally pressed leaves or flowers. I used to do the remembering the page number, but I got too distracted for that so now I don't want to risk it.
I sometimes start multiple books but it never ends well. Half of my books I have with me currently, I've started but have not finished, and not because I didn't enjoy them, just life got busy. This and the fact that I have a shit memory, results in that I often don't remember if I fully read a book or just started it 😬
What a great idea to skip ahead instead of DNFing! I do it for TV all the time, why not books. I also absolutely cut up fat classics. War & Peace got quartered.
Since making this video, I actually tried the skip ahead method on a book that was too long and had a boring middle, and it worked!
I would say my weirdest reading habit is alternating books in French and English if they are of the same genre or if I'm reading more than one (usually two) books at the same time.
Loved this video a lot!
Did the person reading the same audio book every night say which one it is? Curious to find out. 🖤
I use currency for bookmarks, mostly one dollar bills and I have a good number of books. Also I read multiple books at one time.
I don't use a bookmark of any kind nor do i remember the pagenumber. I just close my book and hope the wear in the pages will return me to the correct spot if not i jsut read the first few word every couple of pages untill i reach some i don't recognise XD it also means that if i was reading in a rush i don't remember the words well so acccidently reread a chapter or two which is actually a feature and not a bug, because if i don't remember reading the beginning words of those pages i did not give them their proper attention.
If I enjoy a book too much, I'll look up a plor summary or skip to rhe end if I can't find one. That way I can actually put it down and go to sleep, and also enjoy the journey better.
Hyperfocus and difficulties starting concentrating... sounds like myself.
I read while I walk my dog in the woods. I haven’t fallen down yet. 😂
My weird book habit is that I ONLY audio and E-book…but but buy a physical copy of my 5 star books. I never physically read…bending the spine gives me extreme anxiety
I don't reread books. If I start within the first pages I will remember the story.
I do annotate paperbacks, but don’t want to annotate hardcovers
and I listen to classical music or slow jazz when I’m reading
I have ADHD as well. I get the discipline thing. But I feel like there are enough things in the world that force me to have discipline and regulate my actions. But I chose to read for fun. If it's not fun for me, then what's the point. I try not to regulate my hobbies because they're for fun. So, I read an average od 3-7 books at a time. Sometimes more. That way, if I get bored of a book, I can switch to something else for a few days without DNFing it. If I like the book, often I will just cycle back to it in a few days. I also have an extra category I include with TBR, currently reading, finished, and DNFed. It's called paused. If, for whatever reason, I take an extended break from a book (2+ weeks), but I'm still enjoying it and want to finish it at some point, I add it to my paused category. This doesn't 100% guarantee that I will eventually finish it. But it gives me a list of books that may be worth returning to
I listen to audiobooks at 2.5x speed now. I just cannot focus if it's slower.
The moment you feel nolastic for an ex they hit you with a NERD! Hilarious
I absolutely can't dnf a book. I have to defeat it, even if it's terrible or it takes months to finish.
Ha ha! This was a great video!
Now the most important thing about reading the same book every night, what book is it?
Also i always read multiple books, but my goal for january was to finish those books, and i did, but now i only have one book im currently reading so and i hate it