You know you're addicted to reading when...

[Landslide]

When you join a book forum...

This pretty much summarizes it...

 

[TeenBookWorm]

When you give your friends books for their birthdays just so that you can ask to borrow them. . .

 

[mdragon159]

When you give your friends books for their birthdays just so that you can ask to borrow them. . .

More like so you can read them before you give it to them . Much better.

 

[nick_m100]

But if you aren't careful then it gets the "Been Read" look to it.

 

[libri vermis]

You know you are addicted to reading when...

you start telling a friend about something that you did or that happened to you in the past, then you stop yourself, and say "Wait. No. That was in a book I read."

 

[alliterati]

Heaven would not be Heaven without Borders...

Agreed. Heaven must have a Borders, a huge Borders with every book ever and big comfy chairs.

I'm going to spend the afterlife reading, I just know it.

 

[alliterati]

Whenever I get a purse it has to have enough room for a decently sized book. I get guys that make fun of me for having a big purse and when they ask what I keep in it I say, 'Books.' I always bring a book with me whenever I go out in case I go somewhere with an extra minute to get some reading in, or if I am going to a restaurant.

That's my purse requirement too basically. Only I'm a petite woman and look funny with huge purses so I go with "big enough to hold a standard paperback". I hate being caught without a book in a boring moment.

 

[alliterati]

You know exactly where all the sections in your library begin and end, and get disoriented when they move stuff.

My library did that recently. Now I'm getting to know the new arrangement thankfully.

 

[alliterati]

You spend so much time in the book store that you know all the sections and can help the new employees (and customers) find books.

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Happens to me all the time. Also get mistaken for an employee quite often.

 

[alliterati]

definately!

another one that just happened:

you can't find ANYTHING on your favorites list because it's so crammed with links to pages that sell books you want. So you can't even find the book you're looking for that you want NOW although you'll want a different one tommorow.

Goodreads is starting to solve that for me. I usually borrow rather than buy so it works. Wish lists on amazon are great too.

 

[alliterati]

You go to the pub with friends and spend the first ten minutes looking at the books lining the shelves. Luckily my friends have gotten used to it and don't mind me ignoring them for a bit!

You don't mind eating dinner alone in a restaurant as long as you have a book.

You rather like it when your friends are late so you can keep reading while waiting for them.

I do that at other people's houses....I was flummoxed once to find people who had one book, the dictionary (yes I read the dictionary, they were watch baseball boooring )

I actually make lunch dates with myself and a good book sometimes (I usually eat dinner with my boy).

And finally, yes, unless they're really late..then I worry (channeling my inner mother I suppose).

 

[Wells83]

But if you aren't careful then it gets the "Been Read" look to it.

I definitely have that problem. My books all look very well worn.

 

[lemarquis]

You spend more time organizing your bookshelves than you do cleaning your house.

 

[Libra]

So I was at a BBQ on Sat and was sitting looking through my two new books I had just purchased and an elderly lady comes up to me and asks me if I like reading,I start to hyperventilate and say yes,then she tells me she has about 300 hundred of them in her garage and has been trying to get rid of them and if I am interested in emptying them out for her....*gulp* I said yes and we went walking to her house so I can take a look first.

This is what I carried home and today I am taking the CRV over there. Me elated.

Alfred Hitchcock-Best of Mystery
Martin Gilbert-Churchill
D.H. Lawrence-5 books in a beautiful hard cover tome.
Winston Churchill-My Early Life
Hesenberg's War-(forgot author)
George Orwell-1984
Joan Crawford-Biography by Bob Thomas

Readers Digest Autumn and winter selection of 1956.
Dr.Tom Dooley's Books


Hyperventilating when you hear about 300 books kept unwated in a garage.

 

[kita44]

I don't know if anyone has wrote this one or not yet but..

When you're so engrossed in your book you don't see someone steal your pizza from your plate (right in front of you :])

 

[Gilgamesh]

You go into the restroom (with a book) and doesn't come out until an hour later.

 

[sparkchaser]

You go into the restroom (with a book) and doesn't come out until an hour later.

There was a Seinfeld episode about this. :whistling:

 

[SFG75]

So I was at a BBQ on Sat and was sitting looking through my two new books I had just purchased and an elderly lady comes up to me and asks me if I like reading,I start to hyperventilate and say yes,then she tells me she has about 300 hundred of them in her garage and has been trying to get rid of them and if I am interested in emptying them out for her....*gulp* I said yes and we went walking to her house so I can take a look first.

This is what I carried home and today I am taking the CRV over there. Me elated.

Alfred Hitchcock-Best of Mystery
Martin Gilbert-Churchill
D.H. Lawrence-5 books in a beautiful hard cover tome.
Winston Churchill-My Early Life
Hesenberg's War-(forgot author)
George Orwell-1984
Joan Crawford-Biography by Bob Thomas

Readers Digest Autumn and winter selection of 1956.
Dr.Tom Dooley's Books


Hyperventilating when you hear about 300 books kept unwated in a garage.

That is when you pass out from pure bliss.

 

[Libra]

^^Almost did.lol

Brought them home last night.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

You spend more time organizing your bookshelves than you do cleaning your house.

Guilty.