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Re: Reading Habits (potentially useful survey) random thoughts Send a noteboard - 16/09/2009 04:16:55 PM
Hey Rafonauts

A few questions for you on your reading habits.

1 - Approximately how many books do you read in the average month?


These day I only manage one or two

2 - Of those books, what ratio would be Sci-fi/Fantasy compared with Not SFF? (Ie SFF:NotSFF)


about 50-50

3 - (with credit to Tom) Which of these do you read:

Fantasy


I don't read much fantasy anymore, I would say 10%

Sci-fi


about 40%

Historical Fiction


very rarely

Classics


about 20% but that is new and I haven't read all that many.

Thrillers


just the odd Dean Koontz

Crime/Mystery


almost never

Other fiction stuff (like Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro etc)


I guess most of that would fall into the classics but I do have Witches Of Eastwich on my nightstand unstarted righst now and I am not sure where that would fall.

Non-fiction


about 50% with the majority history

Graphic Novels


never but there are some I would like to read

Manga


I don't even know what that is

Plays


Not really. I just don't enjoy reading them.

Poetry


now and then but I get stuck going back reading the same poems over again:)

Short stories (please specify what genre they might belong to)


I am starting to read more scfi shorts but that is more for research then anything else

Magazines


I read Scientific American every month pretty much cover to cover (though I havn't read the last few since my subscription expired. I also read Cooks most months and some other cooking magazines. I will sometimes pick up a military history magazine if I notice one at the book store.

Newspapers


just online and the Dallas Morning News in the break room

4 - Do you read every day?

5 - Do you find it easy to discuss the books you read?


I find iot hard to find someone interested in discussing them

5a - If not, do you know what might make it easier?


smarter friends:P

6 - Do you buy books as soon as they are published?


Only if it is a series I have been following for some time

7 - What do you like to see in reviews?


Clarity and honesty.

Thanks.
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