How book obsessed are you?

[Chairman Meow]

I wondered if anyone could direct me to an online shop where I could buy a rack style contraption to enable me to read in the bath?? Im sorry that is the best way i can describe it, I used to have one years ago but I cant remember where I got it. It was metal and had a rack to balance the book on!!

I got one in Lidl for €15 just before Xmas - its fab!

 

[trashpony]

Dropping your book in the bath is a fucking tragedy. I once dropped CS Lewis 'Prelandra' in the bath when i was halfway through it. God it makes me angry just thinking about it

I had my handbag nicked and someone rang me 6 months later to say they'd found it at the end of their garden. The bag was in surprisingly good nick but my copy of The Corrections had gone a bit crinkly

 

[elevendayempire]

I got one in Lidl for €15 just before Xmas - its fab!

Here's one for a tenner:

http://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/-168-p-1325.html

SG

 

[Jografer]

The real reason I don't like hardbacks is that they don't fit in my coat pocket

snap... recently bought some books on ebay & was annoyed to find one of them was hardback, and one was one of those big paperbacks.....

 

[DotCommunist]

snap... recently bought some books on ebay & was annoyed to find one of them was hardback, and one was one of those big paperbacks.....

I believe those big paperbacks are known in the industry as 'trade paperbacks'

 

[Chairman Meow]

I believe those big paperbacks are known in the industry as 'trade paperbacks'

Really? I always called them airport paperbacks as thats the only place I buy them.

 

[DotCommunist]

Really? I always called them airport paperbacks as thats the only place I buy them.

not big as in chunky, big as in hardback size. length and width big, not depth

 

[Shandril19]

I hate trade paperbacks.

I also hate waiting for books I want to read to come out in mass market paperback.

It's a vicious system.

 

[glaucon]

There was a couple of years when I read over 400 books a year (between beatings by my fellow students). I doubt if any of my classmates could match that even if they read their schoolbooks.

I'm a piker now, I only read about a book a week. Damn adult responsibilities!

That's over one book a day every day! That's incredibly impressive (what's a "piker"?). I love reading but I read fairly slowly. Am I the only person who can't wait for a decent (and affordable) e-book/reader to come on the market so I can have access to the whole of literature at the press of a button. Although as I read a lot in the bath and regularly drop books in it this could be expensive and/or dangerous.

 

[DotCommunist]

That's over one book a day every day! That's incredibly impressive (what's a "piker"?). I love reading but I read fairly slowly. Am I the only person who can't wait for a decent (and affordable) e-book/reader to come on the market so I can have access to the whole of literature at the press of a button. Although as I read a lot in the bath and regularly drop books in it this could be expensive and/or dangerous.

well start salivating!

The recent leaps in plastic circuitry mean that it is predicted that we will see a4 sized, flexible electronic tablets by 2008. Download the daily papers! carry a library in your pocket! stop chopping down so many trees!

I can't wait

 

[Chairman Meow]

well start salivating!

The recent leaps in plastic circuitry mean that it is predicted that we will see a4 sized, flexible electronic tablets by 2008. Download the daily papers! carry a library in your pocket! stop chopping down so many trees!

I can't wait

I want one NOW!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

That's over one book a day every day! That's incredibly impressive (what's a "piker"?). I love reading but I read fairly slowly. Am I the only person who can't wait for a decent (and affordable) e-book/reader to come on the market so I can have access to the whole of literature at the press of a button. Although as I read a lot in the bath and regularly drop books in it this could be expensive and/or dangerous.

A "piker" is slang for a someone who cheats or is lazy.

 

[glaucon]

A "piker" is slang for a someone who cheats or is lazy.

Learn something new every day! You don't sound lazy.

 

[glaucon]

The recent leaps in plastic circuitry mean that it is predicted that we will see a4 sized, flexible electronic tablets by 2008. Download the daily papers! carry a library in your pocket! stop chopping down so many trees!

Excellent! Now all I need is my flying car.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Learn something new every day! You don't sound lazy.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect, that it is an american corruption of "pikey." It may not be the most polite term in Britain.

BTW, I read because there really wasn't anything else to do. The nearest movie theatre was more than an hour's drive and we only got one tv station. We did, however, have a library that hadn't added a new book since 1950. I suppose I could have gotten drunk and used drugs like everyone else instead.

 

[Shandril19]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect, that it is an american corruption of "pikey." It may not be the most polite term in Britain.

BTW, I read because there really wasn't anything else to do. The nearest movie theatre was more than an hour's drive and we only got one tv station. We did, however, have a library that hadn't added a new book since 1950. I suppose I could have gotten drunk and used drugs like everyone else instead.

I'm not sure I ever read as much as you... but I certainly read way more, much faster when I was younger. This whole work thing really gets in the way.

I got banned from participating in the library's summer reading programs as a kid because we went through too many prizes.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I got banned from participating in the library's summer reading programs as a kid because we went through too many prizes.

Good on you.

Reading is just one of the ways that work interferes with my lifestyle.

 

[John_Corça]

Am definitely obsessed by books, and an expert at cramming as many bookcases and shelves into the smallest of spaces....

But I'm not quite at the level of some of these guys (and gals):

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=AsYouKnow_Bob

http://www.librarything.com/z_users.php

 

[elevendayempire]

well start salivating!

The recent leaps in plastic circuitry mean that it is predicted that we will see a4 sized, flexible electronic tablets by 2008. Download the daily papers! carry a library in your pocket! stop chopping down so many trees!

I can't wait

Yes, but if you drop it in the bath, the consequences will be far more horrific than a soggy paperback...

SG

 

[onemonkey]

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=AsYouKnow_Bob

why doesn't it surprise me that over 6000 of bob's 11000 books are science fiction