Where do you read your books?

[The Screw on Aaron]

This thread was inspired by another conversation I had with Mikegraham6 on another thread and I thought it would be an interesting topic.

I read my books in a park in front of Notre Dame on sunny days whenever I can, reading in the same place I can sometimes recall other books I read in the same area on similar conditions so it helps me remember previous months which is very useful. Alternatively I read on my couch and when I go to London I usually read in a Starbucks (no jokes please it's too easy;) ) I don't mind reading on trains or planes or even some automobiles (that's a lie reading in the car makes me sick!:confused: ) There are many places to read your books in your different comfort levels I'm curious to hear how different people read books in different places:)

Where do you read your books?

[comhcinc]

in my home office or in the can or in the car or at work or on the sofa.

[Six Gun]

I enjoy them most when I'm in bed, anywhere else and I feel rushed

[Mikegraham6]

on the can



or in bed

[Labor_Days]

Reality? Anywhere I can find the time really; desk, lunch break, office, while watching television, city park, subway.

Ideal location? In my study on a comfortable chair, listening to Scott Walker records.

[404Error]

If I buy the comic while i'm at work or on lunch, chances are that I'll read one on the train ride home. Then when I get home I usually just read them at my desk in from of my pc. I feel most comfortable reading them at home in my room.

[itsbecca]

It differs depending on what I'm up to, but I like somewhere where I'm not going to be disturbed. I have to be able to be in my bubble and create the world. Generally on Wednesdays I'll head straight to the couch, set down my stack, wrap a blanket around myself and go cocoon style in the corner cushion. I don't read them all at once, because then they stop being distinct, but I have my laptop there for breaks in between. I will read them all that night though.

I don't really read outside, I'm to easily distracted and would look silly with my blanket.

[paper]

I read them in bed, lying on my left side. By the light of my miniature Christmas Story leg lamp.

[iSteve]

Either in my La-z-boy in my study or in my bed.

[paper]

I always wanted a study. With one of those wheely ladders attached to the book shelf. So I can recreate that one scene from Bedknobs and Broomsticks...

[xyzzy]

Public transit, mostly.

[acomicbookgirl]

either in bed or on sitting on the floor in my room..

[JGG0610]

I usually read them in my hobby room at home while the weekly video podcasts downloads on my computer.

[MastaP]

Usually on the bus or at the on campus shop between classes

[MarshallG]

Mostly in bed or my big comfy chair and sometimes at work on my break when I HAVE to finish the story (Gotham Central trades!!!).

[Deezer]

pre-move: at my desk, in my spinny chair with my feet up

post move: on my bed, comics placed on the floor next to me (I don't actually have a desk in my new house yet... kinda need that soon I guess)

[The Screw on Aaron]

I always wanted a study. With one of those wheely ladders attached to the book shelf. So I can recreate that one scene from Bedknobs and Broomsticks...

Am with you man, hell I wont one just to say meet me in my study! Ooooo the power!:D

[fred]

at my table in front of my computer

[JGG0610]

at my table in front of my computer
Don't you pretty much do everything at your desk in front of your computer?

[AlexG]

After work on wednesdays on the couch with a giant cup of coffee...
In Bed
on the can

[Jimski]

Don't you pretty much do everything at your desk in front of your computer?

Sometimes I imagine Fred as looking a lot like Mojo from Longshot, screens in front of him as far as the eye can see, little wires everywhere.

[kwok_talk]

Sometimes I imagine Fred as looking a lot like Mojo from Longshot, screens in front of him as far as the eye can see, little wires everywhere.

Even with the little metal claws to keep his eyes open. That's the secret as to why he never sleeps.

[JGG0610]

Lol
(10,10)

[fred]

Even with the little metal claws to keep his eyes open. That's the secret as to why he never sleeps.

that part is true

[jerome]

they lose their value if you read them!!!

[comhcinc]

they lose their value if you read them!!!

that is the funnest thing i have read all day


thank you

[ConorKilpatrick]

I think the better question is - where don't I read my comics?

- At work at my desk (shhh)
- On the couch
- On the floor
- In bed (I've got my post-SF stack to work through)
- In front of the computer
- On the subway (TPBs only)

[Humphrey Lee]

Either in my chair here, or surprisingly I can put down half a trade or so each time I go to the gym by reading it between sets. Been doing that a lot lately.

[Jimski]

I've developed a comfortable ritual. The store by my office opens at 11:00; after some Civil War-related sellouts, I started taking lunch a bit early on Wednesdays and getting to the shop at about 11:05. Every week I walk in, chat up Dave the manager, get my books and head over to the Subway by my office. There I devour a sub and as many must-read comics as I can before the hour(ish) is up. Anything I don't get finished then gets read in dribs and drabs over the course of the next month, or perhaps next week at Subway. I carry my comics in my backpack pretty much everywhere in case I find myself stranded at Jiffy Lube or someplace and I'm bored.

The sub and comic ritual is one of my favorite parts of the week, one of those simple, pure pleasures of life that make the bad days worth it. It ain't Notre Dame, but it'll do.

[ConorKilpatrick]

I carry my comics in my backpack pretty much everywhere in case I find myself stranded at Jiffy Lube or someplace and I'm bored.

You're like a comic book survivalist.

[Labor_Days]

I assumed most comic readers carried a few books in their backpacks. Never know when you got a spare 10 minutes or so. Sometimes work is slow or you're just waiting around.

[ConorKilpatrick]

I assumed most comic readers carried a few books in their backpacks. Never know when you got a spare 10 minutes or so. Sometimes work is slow or you're just waiting around.

I've got whatever prose book I'm currently working and the newspaper in my shoulder bag. Comics have already taken over my pre-sleep reading time, I had to give something up to my other reading materials.

[BenjaminSimpson]

Normally I'll read them in the Starbucks inside our business school where I have class Wednesday afternoon. I'm also not ashamed to be seen reading them on a bench in the hallway before class, either. Girls usually react "Comics? Huh." Then after a minute or so they ask to flip through them, and realize they're not quite as horrible geeky as they thought. But then again, I'm not reading X-Men comics (sorry, Ron).

[itsbecca]

I've got whatever prose book I'm currently working and the newspaper in my shoulder bag. Comics have already taken over my pre-sleep reading time, I had to give something up to my other reading materials.

Same, sans the newspaper. Although my ds has started to creep into that time now... and I've been thinking about getting a mobile broadband card. So basically I have no idea when I'm actually going to read anymore.

[Labor_Days]

I've got whatever prose book I'm currently working and the newspaper in my shoulder bag. Comics have already taken over my pre-sleep reading time, I had to give something up to my other reading materials.See, it's just the opposite for me.

I can't read a prose book on the train. When reading a hefty book in particular, I need to be relaxed & comfortable in my study. Now a comic takes me all of five minutes to read. Ten if the art is pretty. Comics work out better when sitting outside on the curb waiting for the next band to come on.

[acomicbookgirl]

I've been thinking about getting a mobile broadband card.

My aunt has one.. I've been contemplating it as of late... Gonna drop by Cingular/Att tomorrow if i'm feeling better..

[kwok_talk]

See, it's just the opposite for me.

I can't read a prose book on the train. When reading a hefty book in particular, I need to be relaxed & comfortable in my study. Now a comic takes me all of five minutes to read. Ten if the art is pretty. Comics work out better when sitting outside on the curb waiting for the next band to come on.

Man. After getting back into comics, I haven't read much prose at all (I miss the pretty pictures...). Comics as an interlude between bands? That's such a good idea!

[Six Gun]

I've got whatever prose book I'm currently working and the newspaper in my shoulder bag. Comics have already taken over my pre-sleep reading time, I had to give something up to my other reading materials.

Speaking of work, do you guys post at work?

[comhcinc]

yeah but i am allowed to

[xyzzy]

Speaking of work, do you guys post at work?

Of course. Doesn't everybody?

[kwok_talk]

Speaking of work, do you guys post at work?

Yup. The benefits of having an office. muhaha.

[fred]

I have the kind of job where I need to take breaks and they understand that

[Labor_Days]

Comics as an interlude between bands? That's such a good idea!Well, I gotta do something besides stand around!

Speaking of work, do you guys post at work?90% of my posting is done there.

[JGG0610]

Speaking of work, do you guys post at work?
Yep, but only during lunch time or after hours. Unlike Kwok I live in cube land.

[fred]

Yep, but only during lunch time or after hours. Unlike Kwok I live in cube land.

I did an internship where I had a cube. It sucked.

[kwok_talk]

I've had my time in cube land. I was always paranoid about people coming up behind me. At least with an office, I can face forward to see people coming.

[JGG0610]

It's really hard now. At my last job I was manager and had my own office. I moved companies to go to a larger, more stable company and had to move back into cube land. But there are upsides: same money and no direct reports (i.e. less stress).:D

[JGG0610]

I've had my time in cube land. I was always paranoid about people coming up behind me. At least with an office, I can face forward to see people coming.
I'm lucky in that my cube is in the corner of the building with windows on two sides so if you're not coming to see me you have no reason to be over there. Not a lot of foot traffic unlike the last time I was in the cube in my former life as a banker when I sat by the coke machine. Seriously.

[Six Gun]

Yep, but only during lunch time or after hours. Unlike Kwok I live in cube land.

So you couldn't be posting in the background?

[comhcinc]

i have the only office in the secure section of our building. that means it takes 5 minutes to get to me from anybody else's office. i take lots of naps

[The Dude Abides]

I take two fifteen-twenty minute smoke breaks and one lunch break, all in my car. every day.
I read there.

[acomicbookgirl]

I've recently learned that the Strangers in Paradise pocket books fit perfectly in my handbag.. I was a little particular with putting my comics and what not.. Now i'm in a dilemma, the next bag I want to buy won't fit them... :(

I wish I had the priviledge to check the board at work... Oh well.... I check them in the morning before going to work and when I get home...

[comhcinc]

i some time read in bed but i try to keep that time for paperbacks





btw this is the 1000 in post for me:D

[acomicbookgirl]

i some time read in bed but i try to keep that time for paperbacks





btw this is the 1000 in post for me:D


9 more and you will officially will be an elitist... ;)

[comhcinc]

yeah i am trying to work at it without marking nonsense post

[acomicbookgirl]

3 more.. :)

[comhcinc]

..............2.......................

[acomicbookgirl]

getting closer...

[comhcinc]

Elite
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[fred]

I call nonsense

congratulations

[iSteve]

Elite
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Welcome Comhcinc to the grand exalted position of elitedomhood. :D

[k33k3r]

Hey I was just happy breaking 500.
I read my books in the comfort of my office at home or on the couch.

Sidenote: Avoid the stomach virus that is going around like the plague! It's not very enjoyable.

[fred]

the stomach virus has been going through my family - I think I'm getting it now


sucks

[k33k3r]

I hate calling off sick from work unless I feel like I'm dying. I had to yesterday though because I need to get better by this weekend for the wedding.

Be prepared my friend. Stock your place with many many liquids.

[fred]

it's been nearly a month since my last iv

[iSteve]

it's been nearly a month since my last iv

Congrats. Hope you're on the road to wellness.

[k33k3r]

Oh I forgot about that. Yeah avoid that man. That can't be healthy at all.

[fred]

I'm not healthy at all - my immune system sucks

been sick all winter here in the tundra

[k33k3r]

We should start a collection for a bio-hazard suit for Fred. Hopefully the upcoming warm weather will give your immune system a break and time to rebuild.

[iSteve]

Fred - the new bubble boy.

[fred]

as long as I don't have to be near john travolta

[kwok_talk]

I'm not healthy at all - my immune system sucks

been sick all winter here in the tundra

Or perhaps the opposite. Maybe your immune system is getting boot-camp-like training. Promise us to take care of the forums when we all die from the uber-flu virus that hits in 2009.

To prevent an atomic bomb hitting this conversation. I now like to read my comics in the living room.

[fred]

makes sense to me

[paper]

I always wanted to read comics, as well as Swann's Way, in the pocket of a kangaroo.

[acomicbookgirl]

the stomach virus has been going through my family - I think I'm getting it now


sucks


I think I had that on Monday..

[k33k3r]

Oh you would know if you had it.

[acomicbookgirl]

Oh you would know if you had it.


I thought I was gonna die that day.. Oh well.. I do not want to relive that..

[k33k3r]

Yep you had it.

[DrWally]

Japanized Chinese Food joint run by Burmese.... that is where I read my books, just after finishing work. 6 nights a week I have been in there for the past month, about one TPB a night. That, and on the train Tuesday and Thursday because my commute those days is long, and I read trades. I have spent much time in that greasy spoon, reading...lots of books.

Funny story tonight, ACBG, you may love this especially as I think you are a big Emma Frost fan (at least I am now). I was reading "Torn" (Astonishing #13-18), I've finished eating, drank my bottle of beer, but I'm still sitting there with an empty plate and bottle, totally engrossed because it's the big moment when Emma's true relationship to the Hellfire Club and Cassandra is being revealed, Kitty and the baby thing, the story arc is in full climax mode, and the nice waitress, a Burmese girl with an impenetreble accent in both Japanese and English comes over to ask something, which she insists on repeating again and again even though her accent in Japanese is totally impenetrable. I think she wants to practice her Japanese or English, I was way rude, I think, because I wanted to say "Buzz OFF lady, I need to find out what's up with EMMA!" (How do you translate that?). Anyway, I imperiously yell out for the Burmese lady that runs the joint for a proper translation, it's just "Do you want another beer?" and I'm like "NO. I'm fine." (Said like "Now GO away").

The cook and lady who runs the joint actually thought it was funny cause they see me in there every night with a new comic, know I'm a nice guy and am one of their best most regular customers.

Oh me and my crazy life. But hey, if I want another beer, I'll order it. And don't ask when I'm engrossed in serious Emma mode with Cassandra Nova and Kitty and the baby thing and Scott's got a gun...You know what I mean?