Myself personally I get most of my reading done on my 45 minute commute to work on the bus/train. I also enjoy reading in the mornings on weekends and occasionally in the evening on weekdays.
Another thing I like to do with my wife on the weekend is pick up some lunch and coffee and then read at the park.
Generally carrying my ereader around constantly means that idle moments in public end up getting used to advance in the book I’m reading, instead of purposelessly checking my phone or using social media. I think I read a post on here in another thread where someone else has had the same experience.
What about y’all? Any rituals? Do you play music?
I’m what I call a seasonal reader - I almost exclusively read during the warmer months on my cute little balcony. I don’t know what it is, but that’s just my perfect setting for reading. I just can’t get myself to read more than a few pages when I’m indoors. A cold glass of water, the warm summer sun and a great book are what I need!
On weekdays, mostly in bed before going to sleep.
On the weekends, I do longer bike rides and take my E-Reader. I listen to audiobooks while riding and then stop at a nice spot in the shade and just read for an hour or two before I move on to the next spot or ride back home.
It is. :) It actually started way back when I was still in school. I suffered from pretty severe depression, but being a teenager I thought I had to deal with it by myself and I didn’t talk to my parents. Instead, I would skip school, take my bike and just ride off into the forest and just read all day.
Back then it was classic escapism, really.
I’m mostly better now, was in therapy for a bit and while I still have some bad days, the habit of doing this to hide away from the world has morphed into something I do just because I love it, not to get away from something.
I read during my breaks or when i have nothing to do pretty much anywhere its why i personally prefer digital books over physical ones
I read ebooks almost exclusively (aside from graphic novels), and while I could take my kindle anywhere I feel most comfortable reading at home. I frequently read in bed after I wake up and before I sleep. Scrolling social media in bed is/was one of my bad habits; I see I’m not alone in picking up a book instead of giving my time to twitter/reddit/youtube.
I’ve been dealing with a chronic illness and for some reason reading was one of the activities that really took a hit.
I still keep a book with me in my backpack, so if I’m on the move I’ll eg. read on the subway or if I have lunch away from home. In the summer I also used to love just setting up my hammock somewhere like the central park here in Helsinki (which is basically a 10km long strip of forest and not so much a park park) and getting lost in a book.
I also read in bed before going to sleep (my bed’s pretty wide and one side usually has at least two books on it 😅).
I’m staunchly in the “physical books” camp nowadays. I used to have a Kindle and read pretty much constantly, but I realized that I didn’t remember what I read half as well as I did when I read paper books – something about how it’s easier for me to eg. remember where in a book something happened when I can physically feel “how much book I have left” if that makes any sense.
