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One of my favorite bookstores burned down last weekend, and while I only got to visit there while I was on vacation, it made me stop and think. What would you do if, all of a sudden, your favorite source of books was unavailable? Whether it’s a local book shop, your town library, or an [...]

Hi, BTTers! Don’t forget to check out my giveaway while you’re here. This week’s question: What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If [...]

Books and films both tell stories, but what we want from a book can be different from what we want from a movie. Is this true for you? If so, what’s the difference between a book and a movie? What’s the “difference” between a book and a movie? Well, you see, Billy, one of them [...]

Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not? Do you ever read manuals? How-to books? Self-help guides? Anything at all? First of all, let me just say that I rarely bring home any “gadget” more complicated than a book. I have no cell phone, [...]

Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books, dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library? I took a look, and I have five of the above on the shelves in my room: Student’s Guide for Writing College Papers, by Kate L. [...]

Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack? Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you do [...]

Suggested by Nithin: I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue [...]

1) Pick up the nearest book. (I’m sure you must have one nearby.) 2) Turn to page 123. 3) What is the first sentence on the page? 4) The last sentence on the page? 5) Now . . . connect them together…. (And no, you may not transcribe the entire page of the book–that’s cheating!) [...]