Do you really love books? Let’s find out..
2 March 2013 
I recently read the following article over at the Geeky Book Snob and it really made me smile so wanted to share it (coupled with the fact that I’m nosey and want to see just how obsessed you really all are and whether you should be on medication or not:
Image used with the kind permission of Geeky Book Snob
Okay – On a scale of 1 – 11 how many did you score – be honest!
My immediate thoughts.
- Why wouldn’t you take a book with you when you leave home? It fits in your bag and you’re never short of something to do! Simples.
- I can totally relate – I’m never excited about buying clothes, I just do it – in and out of the shop as quick as possible. Book stores – I can spend hours in just happily wandering, mooching, reading snippets and jackets. *sigh*
- Okay, I may not have maimed anyone (yet) but I do occasionally smuggle books into the house and hide them (this is what some women do with clothes) then when the other half notices them I just casually say, ‘oh those old things, I’ve had them for ages’!
- Absolutely spot on. I love the library.
- I refuse to even think about this.
- Naturally. It might be something I was really looking forward to! (Actually I suppose I do have to act a bit more responsibly than that (something about having a family to feed *waves hand absentmindedly*) but come on, there’s always a bargain out there – you just need to keep your eyes peeled!
- I don’t do this and perhaps that’s why most of my books never find their way homes – I hadn’t realised that I needed a bit of blood magic. Bangs head on wall!
- Just doesn’t happen! I refuse to read the magazines in there – one they’re 3 years old and two, on the absolute rare occasion you find something of interest in one of those I guarantee someone will have torn half the article out! Very annoying!! High blood pressure at all….
- This is true – they just don’t know they’re my friend and think I’m some sort of weird stalker as I try and discover what they’re reading – not easy when they’re reading a Kindle – which is another down side to the Kindle that I forgot to add to my pros and cons list!
- I do worry about this but it’s pointless – my books are doomed! There’s far too much paper and it’s stacked up all over the place – perhaps that’s a plus for the Kindle!
- Why on earth would I rip a page in a book! That’s just silly! Now, if you’re the sort of person who rips pages in books – then perhaps you need a Kindle.
Let me know your score.
Books and travelling with Lynn 
This is wonderful, and I found myself agreeing with every statement. Not sure what that says about me… actually, I know exactly what it says about me. 🙂 And I’m good with it.
Ha ha, you need to see the Doctor – but take a book!!! And if you’re going on the train – see if you can spot any ‘must read’ titles.
Lynn 😀
All but the third one ring true for me! Anymore I find myself bringing my Kindle with me AND something in print form just so I have either option when it comes to having a minute or two here or there to read.
I was actually at the doctors recently just for something routine and I didn’t have a book with me – I couldn’t believe it. And, to make it worse, the only magazines looked like really out of date fisherman’s magazines. I literally sat there and read all the leaflets pinned to the walls. I suppose the benefit of this is that I now know the symptoms for the onset of Alzheimer’s or how to protect your baby during pregnancy!
Lynn 😀
I’ve had to resort to that kind of reading before, but not for a long time. I’m even so book-addicted that I take books into my eye doctor’s appts and when they dilate my eyes and having me sitting in the room waiting for them to take effect I’m holding a paperback up as close as possible and reading through the blurring.
Hey, that would be the perfect time for an audio book!
Lynn 😀
Actually now that I have an iPhone I could see myself listening to podcasts during that time when I’m waiting for my eyes to dilate for the exam.
definitely more excited about books than clothes. And yes, how could I leave the house without a book! But when it does happen, and I am stuck with waiting room mags, I am very, very sad.
However, if a friend ends up keeping a book, I take that as a sign that the I am spreading the bibliophilia and perhaps they can be saved – turned to the bookish side!
Well done young Jedi – spreading the love book by book!
Lynn 😀
-chuckle- Oh I *suffer* from “Bibliophilism,” with or with out a score!!!!!!!!
We here, won’t go to Kindle, till our eyes really need to. His will first probably, since they are in worse shape than mine.
But I love a boooook!!!!! And I know I sound like a snob, about it. -gigggles-
“Auntie”
(Who went wild with color, after my dull, dull, dull, dull late winter post.) ,-)
I know – I think I should buy my dad a kindle as his eyes are getting worse but he doesn’t have a computer so he wouldn’t be able to open up an Amazon account. I stopped over yours recently – I couldn’t get on at first but then I eventually found you again – although the posts I was looking at were from Christmas I think – have you changed your blog address?
To be honest I also love a book rather than the electronic version but I have started reading some Kindle now. I keep coming up with plus and minus points as I go along. Like, for example, I don’t like the fact that I don’t see the book cover and also I find it more difficult to remember the author’s name for the kindle books because it’s not the same and you’re not constantly seeing the cover and name with Kindle. But, I like the fact that when I’m reading a larger volume it’s easier to handle – some of these fantasy books can be so big they’re a bit unruly to read!
Lynn 😀
Ha! Your number 3…oh, I can relate to this. I have a secret stash of books at the bottom of the wardrobe in our spare room right at the back where he will never look. It slowly gets added to every time I make a guilty purchase!
I have a couple of drawers like that – but you know the saying about ‘out of sight out of mind’. Well, yeah, I hide the books in there and then forget about them. It’s like stepping into Wonderland sometimes when I open up a drawer to find a stash of books I’d completely forgotten about!
Lynn 😀
brilliant checklist! I read it out loud to my hubby, and he was like “yup, that’s both of us”. I am so about books before clothes! a book isn’t going to make me look fat, I never need to hem the bottom of a book or have it dry cleaned, it’s never going to be out of fashion. . . . srsly, who needs clothes anyways?
how many books could i save it there was a house fire? well, put it this way: there’s a reason all my Valente’s are next to each other on the shelf. Also, we have a TON of renter’s insurance.
Haha, putting all the favourite books together in the event of an emergency. Good plan. Mine are all over the place! Thankfully some of them are in other people’s houses who seem to have forgotten where they live. In the event of losing all my other books at least these would survive!
Lynn 😀
I can’t say I never leave home without a book, but that’s because when I’m at work or bowling I don’t have time to read, but when I was going to school I always kept a book with me which I read between classes. I had a couple of people comment on the fact that I had a different book with me every week, considering many of them were 400+pages, that was a lot of reading while going to school and working.
I wear individual articles of clothing until they start to fall apart, then I wear them for another two or three years because I really don’t care, but I’ll go to bookstores once a month and buy 6 or 7 books at a time.
When all of the talk about the Mayan Apocalypse was going on, I quite calmly thought that there was no way the world could end, because the last Wheel of Time book (A Memory of Light, #14) didn’t come out until January and there was no way in hell I wasn’t going to be able to read that book (I’m 3/4 of the way through book 12, eagerly waiting until I get to start reading AMoL and pissed that my reread of the series is taking longer than I expected. Stupid work.)
I hate it when one of my items of clothing that I just like to hang out in finally falls apart. I love comfy clothing!
The Wheel of Time books – I’ve looked at these a few times and thought of starting the series but it’s just such a massive undertaking – not to mention I’ve only read book one in the Game of Thrones series so I’ve still got quite a lot of catching up to do there. Work and life – they do get in the way! Are you enjoying the reread as much as you did the first time you discovered the books? I find that some of the books that I read when I was younger haven’t aged as well as I hoped on a reread but then other books I’ve reread I’ve picked up so much more from now that my perspective has changed slightly.
Lynn 😀
We were watching one of the Twilight films the other night when the better half asked if I rather be a wolf or vampire. I said, duh vampire. He never sleeps or dies. Think of all the books I could read.
I know – imagine – for once you might actually be waiting for a book to come out rather than having a stack of books waiting for you to read them! Would you be a vegetarian tofu eating vampire though?
Lynn 😀
I got 5/11 not a bad score. I couldn’t imagine leaving the house without something to read. What on earth are you to do with a free moment or when you’re left waiting unexpectantly?!
I know! Insane! I always regret it if I don’t have a book with me.
Lynn 😀
I think I’m only at 8. Of course, my husband sometimes has a clearer picture of my “obsession” than I do.
So I’m guessing he rates you as a full house!! You’re in denial. Anyway, I think an 8 pretty much signifies the need for medication. I prescribe two more books (per week). LOL
Lynn 😀
I got 5… I think if this were about movies I’d get full marks.
I always carry a note book because I love writing and I’m not that excited about buying clothes or books but I love buying games and films… I will spend a few hours in a book store though and I love sitting in the library and reading. I was on the tube earlier last month and a chap was reading Cloud Atlas and I wanted to talk to him about it but I stopped myself because it’s London and people don’t do that sort of thing. I di talk to a woman reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and recommended the film
I’ve been debating whether to get a Kindle because I’ve run out of space for my books. I’d probably end up using it to watch films 😉
Hah! you should put one together for movie lovers! Have you been to see Cloud Atlas? I’m sort of coming round to the Kindle but I don’t think I’ll ever stop buying books.
Lynn 😀
I scored 8 out of 10! I guess I suffer, suffer, suffer.
I prefer buying books to buying makeup, clothes or just about anything else. My family is well aware of this, and my poor husband is past being surprised at this by now, but early on in our relationship he couldn’t believe it!
I try to never, ever, leave home without a book (or now without one of my eReaders), but if I do, I feel naked. 🙂 And, I love that secret bond that I feel with other readers when they pull out that book on my commute to work, or at the doctor’s office. ;P
That’s exactly the right phrase – you feel an immediate bond with someone when they start reading during their commute. It’s just like on some level you feel an affinity with them because you obviously like reading!
We do suffer – but it’s for a good cause.
Lynn 😀