The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Oh I have a kindle .. I take that with me too haha

I have found a new bad habit. I read books that everyone else is reading, I have been ignoring my favorite authors and genres. I need to stop reading something I am not enjoying

My bad habit is reading a book for pleasure when I have to read something for work. That makes me panic that I won't manage to meet the deadlines (ꏿ﹏ꏿ;) I also buy too many books that are "to read" - I have a huge stockpile of volumes and ebooks and more on the list "to read" on Goodreads - I think my life wont be that long to read all of it.

When I was a child I was a total bookworm and wanted to read all the time.
For various reasons, including the fact that I was an only child, my mother wanted me to be active and socialise. In additon to my chores she kept discovering sports or arts clubs I needed to go to, insisted I create scrapbooks from all our holidays or write letters to friends and relations.

As an adult I have grown-up with a yearning to read but a feeling of guilt if I do so when there is any housework to be done, even when it is my husband's turn at a chore I feel guilty leaving him to do it while I read.

As a result I have piles of books on my shelves but read very slowly.

I have stacks of books that I haven't read and find myself still looking for more.

What I've noticed lately is that I sometimes start books and don't finish them. Perhaps I'll take the time to finish them this year.

I can never stop in the middle of a chapter and always have to read it all, even when I zone out and have no idea what i'm reading. Also, I hate re-reading parts of books, so then the story progresses and I have no idea what's happening

Esther , I am exactly like you , in this matter :-)

Krysztyna wrote: "My bad habit is reading a book for pleasure when I have to read something for work. That makes me panic that I won't manage to meet the deadlines (ꏿ﹏ꏿ;) I also buy too many books that are "to read"..."

I find that I'm the exact same as you! Once I start a new book, I could hardly put it down although my conscience is urging me to get a grip on myself. But I just can't! Even when I feel really guilty and pick up my work, the plot and the characters just keep swimming lazily to the front of my mind, as if testing my inner strength to ignore them, taunting me to get back to the book when I so obviously have so much to do! It's just frustrating!

Aisling wrote: "Taking on too many books at once is definitely my worst habit. I end up leaving so many books half finished and don't come back to them for ages!"

I felt that on a soulful level. I feel bad for the books, sometimes I don't even look at them because I feel that they can sense my shame.

Hey, I'm Vic and this is my bad reading habits confession.

-My friends want to go out and do teen stuff, while I just want to read books.

- As a child, I would rather read than be social with other children my age.

-I have so many books, that I have not reading. And I tell myself that I'm waiting for the right time for them.

-I half read books, and start new one, without finishing ones I started.

- I make my body refuse its functions to finish reading. ( I KNOW IT BAD)

- I get scolded for staying up late to finish/read my books.

- I buy bookmarks, but misplace them and use a random small object to keep my place. ( I think I have over 25 bookmarks, but I'm currently using a bobby pin as a book marker*~*)

- I know I should donate my books, but I'm too emotional attach to them that I try to hold on to them as long as possible.

- For my english classes I would finish the book we were assigned and asked for the next book we had to read. This caused the teacher to tell me I'm weeks ahead of the class.

- I try to fit all my books on my bookshelf, and in the process they get hurt.

- Everytime I got to a book store, I end up buying more books. Which causes me to limit my bookstore adventures.

I can relate to half finished books. I have about 100 as currently reading listed on goodreads.

Vic wrote: "- I buy bookmarks, but misplace them and use a random small object to keep my place. ( I think I have over 25 bookmarks, but I'm currently using a bobby pin as a book marker*.."

I have a collection of over a hundred bookmarks but actually use receipts or bus tickets.
My daughter made some booksmarks to pass time during lockdown and gave me one. I felt I must use it but somehow left it in the book after I finished reading and lost it :0(
That is why I store all my pretty bookmarks in a box.

I would say some of my worst habits are;
Reading ahead (either on the same page, reading the last few pages or flipping through pages) because I am terrible at suspenseful things and surprises

always some how getting the book wet.

Cracking the spins, and messing up the covers (paper back books)

And never using actually book marks, I usually use bus tickets, recites or a random piece of paper. I don't even think I own an actual book mark 🤭

My worst reading habit is starting books and not waiting till i finish before starting a second. I'm not kidding! There are 38 (!!) books on my "currently-reading" bookshelf.

My worst reading habit is to discontinue the book whenever I get emotional or am terribly shaken by a scene. It takes me days to get over it and to continue reading the book.

I don't like reading paperbacks because I'm so scared of cracking the spine so every few pages I'm looking at the spine to check it's not damaged.

Wouldn't exactly say bad but it is bad- I'm talking about the difficult postures my body gets into when I am reading and then I wonder why my back- neck hurts.

My bad habit is buying books I will enjoy and never reading them until years later. I am definitely changing that now especially when I have almost 500 books and I have 4 more on the way and at this point I have read only 127 out of 486. I love books.

My other bad habit is reading when tired where the book will fall on my face or I will have a very sore thumb for holding the book there. I also will try to get to the end of the chapter, but yhe next day re-read a paragraph or more because I didn't comprehend what I read the night before.

I agree with someone else about not folding the corners of the pages in your book especially if you are not keeping that book. I agree use a bookmark or if you're like me and want to keep your brain sharp, memorize the page number. I usually try to finish a chapter to know what page I left off, but if I am starting to pass out I look at the page number and quickly memorize it.

My worst bookish habit is definitely hoarding. The rate at which I buy books is astronomically higher than the rate at which I read them, so I'm just being slowly buried under a rising tide of TBR books that I'm never going to be able to reduce sufficiently.

This has gotten substantially worse this year, because I've been in self-isolation since March, and basically my only consolation from *gestures at the everything* has been the tiny serotonin boosts from impulse purchases... 😳💸📚📚📚

I buy so many books, so much faster than I read them. Because most of my books are e books it's easy to trick myself into thinking I havent got that many, giving myself an excuse to buy even more.
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Also I have the bad habit of putting off or completely skipping sleep so I can read more.

My bad reading habit is trying to read too many books at the same time. I am a mood reader, so some days I wake up wanting to read Fantasy, but by afternoon I'm in a more "dark" mood so I pick up a noir novel and by night I'm tired so I just want to read something light and fluffy... this can go on for weeks at a time and it eventually leads to two outcomes: either I get myself into a reading slump or I end up forgetting about one or more of the books I'd started reading and pick a different one altogether.

My TBR barely gets smaller because of this and I feel very frustrated whenever this happens. Or rather, whenever I do this to myself.

My worst reading habit is my position while I'm reading.

Its so weird! Literally reading ALL your comments had me chuckling till i dropped not because they were funny (they were so funny indeed) but because i could RELATE and also i thought i was the only one who did these weird habits. How i never realised that us bookworms are just as similar as we think is beyond me. This is our little world and we should love ourselves for these bad habits because they make us the bookworms we are today! I definitely have these weird habits the main one is i also check how many chapters they are in the book and how many pages each chapter have haha!

My bad habit is that whenever i reading a book I jump to the last page to read the last line or I search on internet about the characters in the movie(based on that book) and get a lot of spoilers in related search. Like I spoiled Maze Runner by searching for Thomas's character in the movie, instead I came to know that Newt and Teresa died. I feel so wierd for doing this like I am crazy. **Nervous laugh**

My bad reading habits....I start a thousand books (usually 4 at a time) because they are being checked out from the library and ALL become available at the same time. Then I get through most of the book and it's due back! So I have to return it and request it again.

I also have a bad habit of drinking coffee late at night while reading and even though I cherish my books and take VERY good care of them, I am clumsy and end of spilling a drop of coffee on the cover or top of the book. If I don't then I just can't sleep for hours.

I ALWAYS end up reading too fast and skimming and then im like “WAIT WHAT??....WHO DIED.?” That kind of thing! Also if a book dosent get me hooked in the beginning i sort of cannot get into it yet because all books should be valued i still continue reading and give it a chance!


I have this really annoying streak that even if the book is boooooring.....i still like to finish it i hate leaving a book unfinished i dont know if thats a good thing or not? But it bugs me that i like to torture myself 😂😂😂 but mehhh! Its a book at the end of the day! Shrugs***