Science and Inquiry discussion

Alex wrote: "Evenings get busy surprisingly quickly. I mean...y'know, what if Top Chef is on?"

hahaha!
sometimes i read during the comercials...top chef is ALWAYS on! (and i always watch it)

I try to read for about 2 to 3 hours a day. I only manage about 25 books a year. I am a very slow reader so it takes a long time for me to read something. Combine that with the fact that 5 of those books are usually highly technical text books... and you'll see why it takes me a long time to do everything. (I also try to do all the problems in the text books.) So yeah... I make do with what I can...

it depends on what else is going on. I can't read after dinner or I'll be up way too late. I usually try to read a little during my lunch break, and some after I get home from work and while I eat. During the weekend I can get a lot more reading in and can sometimes devour multiple books. Depends on what else I'm doing. I can average probably 50-70 books a year, though some are rereads, and I've never really kept track.

You don't keep track?! But...but that's what Goodreads is for!

I try to read at least 25 pages a day. That applies if I'm reading more than one book at the time too.

I read probably 2-3 hours on a typical day. (A snowy weekend day -- that could be all day reading!) An hour in the morning while I drink coffee and try to remember who I am. That's when I'm most likely to read nonfiction too. At lunch, sometimes. A whole evening, maybe once a week. And at bedtime which can be anywhere from 2 minutes to several hours of reading, and that's when I choose a book that is easier to coast along in. I think I'm a pretty slow reader, and I hate it when my mind drifts and I end up reading the same paragraph 3-4 times before I actually pay attention to it.

Ugh, I hate that feeling. Happens a lot when I read before bed, when I'm clearly too tired to read but I get all sullen and obstinate about it. "Screw you, body, I'm readin' a book." No I'm not.

Depends on whether or not I'm in school, but I try for 1-2 hours a day. When I was in a tiny, tiny town working this summer, I read A LOT. I don't watch TV, so reading is what I do to unwind.

At minimum I read the newspaper every day.

thats very cool!

I'm a grad student, so reading for fun doesn't happen as often as I like. But, I read nearly constantly throughout the day. It just may not be what I'd consider the most fun.

I also do audibooks when my hands are full in the lab. It makes hours of grinding samples go much, much quicker. Though, like Larry, they don't always go in. I usually choose audiobooks that I don't need to hear all of it to understand.

@ Grace . . what are you grinding?

Melissa wrote: "@ Grace . . what are you grinding?"

Grace wrote: "I'm a grad student, so reading for fun doesn't happen as often as I like. But, I read nearly constantly throughout the day. It just may not be what I'd consider the most fun.

I also do audibooks ..."

Soils and leaves for this project. I'm working on getting the natural concentration levels of beryllium-10 in a natural forest.

To be honest, I don't have my elevator speech down yet. If you want to know more, just ask! I'll ramble my way through it in hopes I'll get plenty of practise in before I defend my thesis.

A couple of hours a night (no TV) and longer on weekends, especially when the weather is bad. My problem is reading fiction. I overdid it when I was younger so I have avoided fiction for years, decades. I guess it's time to go back and re-read through the lens of being 67. Chekhov? Calvino? I tried DeLillo a couple of years ago, but no.The question is who. And no spy stories.

I've been retired for 4 years. The first couple years I read constantly, many hours a day. But things change. I've become something of a news junkie and I watch/read news for 2-3 hours every day, both on TV and the computer (and now my smartphone). Also, my eyes are getting old, like the rest of me, and between TV, computer, and reading, they tire quickly. Still reading is my favorite thing. I probably manage less than a couple hours most days, but with a kindle app on my smartphone, I'm now recapturing much lost time, in little bits.

If I'm lucky about an hour...but there are some books that I'll just clear my schedule for! Skloot's book was one. The last binge book was Harkness' A Discovery of Witches. beautiful novel by a historian of alchemy at USC.

I read about an hour a day of leisure reading on work days and non work days I can sit for hours.

I've been reading an absurd amount (several books a day absurd) recently, but that is only because I have a semester off. Hopefully I'll have some time to spare back at uni, though.

i am a slow reader but even then i manage to read 1-2 hours daily or maybe less than that:}

I am blessed in that I am a very rapid reader, but cursed by not having regular quiet time to just devote to reading. I suppose if I could get off the sewing machine, or off the oomputer totally I would read more. I don't really watch TV though except for occasional Netflix movie binges.

During school, I barely read at all, but I LOVE reading, and now that it's summer, I've been burning through books. Usually around 1-2 hours a day, and if I'm really into it, it could go for 4 hours or more. :p

At the end of summer vacation and in the few days before I am motivated to get ready for the new schol year I have been reading for 6 hours each day. Bliss.

How much do I read. Not enough, probably an hour or two of "pleasure reading" - waste too much time on line and here I go joining another group. Woe is me!

I'm not reading enough. Lots of school work (reading scientific articles) and an addiction to HBO-series.

"How much do I read a day?"

It's actually much less than I used to read when I was younger. I could sit for 3-4 hours at a stretch with a single book...

...but those days are gone. I now usually read several books at once (4-6). And with all the distractions available that weren't available "back in the day":

- Cable TV
- Video Games
- The Internet

...count me among those who say "1-2 hours".

Todd

My reading is pretty inconsistent, but I read very quickly. According to my Goodreads stats, I'm averaging over 100 pages per day.