there's a study out that claims Americans on average will or currently do spend about 10 hours a day consuming media via TV, internet books & magazines. I suppose I fit that mold easily from Monday to Friday at least, since I'm tethered to a PC for most of the day and do some tv/internet at night. I don't do much in the way of magazines tho, since most times the news is outdated my weeks courtesy of the intarweb.
did you read this on the back of your box of Kix cereal??
Kid tested, mother approved!!
and ironically, I got it off Drudge - OMG!!!!
so when is Drudge going to come out and admit that he's a fag?
I bet I can do 10 hours of media entertainment in a day but not every day. I spend time on the internet while at work and at home. And usually watch some TV at night. Okay, yeah maybe every day.
i don't watch much TV...except for UFC, some hockey, and LOST.
Internet is where i procure a lot of info.
I read voraciously on my commute. I found 1776, which won last years Pulitzer...kind of dry and boring. I tend to like fiction more than nonfiction/biography...but depends on my mood. Wildfire by Nelson Demille was my last fiction read. Flawed, but good.
I love biographies and non-fiction, I havent had time to read lately though. I watch maybe an hour or 2 of tv a day, if that. My days are usually packed and will be even more so when I start school in jan, so i'll get me read on then.
Quote:I love biographies and non-fiction............
I'm a non-fiction fan, too. Fiction really has to suck me in for it to capture my attention.
I do read alot of books. I must have sent one of the CEO of Amazon.com's kids to college by now.
The news I get here on the internet or CNN or MSNBC (and as long as Bush isn't talking it's all good with me).
The only mags I get are National Geographic and a few dog training magazines.
I refuse to read books unless I get paid for it. Within the last month I downloaded PDF's of the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons and read while it appeared I was really working. Right before I got myself fired from a job a couple of years ago I read Moneyball and a few Dean Koontz books. And the first ever job I had was a 5-6 week summer job where I read 7 or 8 Koontz books.
whered you get that angels & demons pdf?
Goatweed Wrote:whered you get that angels & demons pdf?
My mom keeps telling me to read that.
I like books. Reading a book on the internet or the computer just isn't the same for me.
I only read hardcover books, I cant do paperback the fonts are way too small to read - especially if its a large book.
Goatweed Wrote:I only read hardcover books, I cant do paperback the fonts are way too small to read - especially if its a large book.
you need coke bottle glasses, too??
what happened to you, man?
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Luna Wrote:Goatweed Wrote:I only read hardcover books, I cant do paperback the fonts are way too small to read - especially if its a large book.
you need coke bottle glasses, too??
what happened to you, man?
I'm near-sighted so I dont need glasses to read, but a book like The Stand, for example, in paperback has the tiniest fonts ever and after a while I get a headache.
Plus hardcovers look better on the shelf.
oh, and thank you BA <3
Goatweed Wrote:I only read hardcover books, I cant do paperback the fonts are way too small to read - especially if its a large book.
i used to do hardcovers also when i primarily read at home. but these days, I read on the train, and hardcovers make my bag too heavy. I was thrilled today when I could finally read Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow, just rereleased in a smaller paperback size.
i don't read.
i have a little canadian orphan that reads for me and gives me the short version.
do you have someone to remove all the "eh's" in the short version?
Hoon Wrote:i don't read.
i have a little canadian orphan that reads for me and gives me the short version.
who? Kurt's aborted fetus?
