Booking Through Thursday

A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading.

What is Reading, Fundamentally? May 29, 2008

Filed under: Wordpress — --Deb @ 1:59 am

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Suggested by: Thisisnotabookclub

What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If something isn’t reading, why not? Does it matter? Does it impact your desire to sample a source if you find out a premise you liked the sound of is in a format you don’t consider to be reading? Share your personal definition of reading, and how you came to have that stance.

(Two weeks late for Reading is Fundamental week, but, well…)


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

 

81 Responses to “What is Reading, Fundamentally?”

  1. --Deb Says:
    May 28, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Testing, testing….

  2. Kat Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Hi all! Happy BTT! Here’s mine!

  3. trish Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:18 am

    I still have some things to do before I can go to bed. :-(

    At least I procrastinated and did the question for this week, though. :-)

    http://trishsdiary.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/what-is-reading-fundamentally-btt/

  7. Peta Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 4:31 am

    Here’s my Here’s my BTT!

  9. madi Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 4:45 am

    I’m up!!

  12. Mikko Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 5:21 am

    It’s a good question, and in the process of answering to it, I suppose I did figure out something about myself. My reply at Mikko reads.

  15. Tami Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Literacy is my passion . . . Guess that’s why I enjoy this!
    http://verbal1.blogspot.com/

  19. katrina Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 7:34 am

    I used to be a real reading snob, reading had to be proper books (non of the chick lit stuff) or broadsheet newspapers. Then I started teaching which got me into kids books and also made me think about what reading really is. Personally I now say to parents who are struggling to get their kids to read that it doesn’t matter what it is so long as they are reading: it could be comics, non-fiction, celebrity biography’s, magazines or web-pages. Not everyone enjoys novels and the world can’t all be the same. I think that it is the pressure and force to read books that actually puts a lot of people off as kids, for some people reading a huge passage is torture but a graphic novel could be entertaining.

  21. Christine Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Interesting. Here is both my answer and a link to my super-fantastic giveaway:

    http://shereadsbooks.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/btt-what-is-reading/

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  33. Planet Books Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Mine is up! Thanks for a great question.
    -K

  35. Meghan Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 10:08 am

    What a great question! I’m not sure my answer is coherent, but I had a try at it.

    http://chikune.com/blog/?p=80

  37. bethany canfield Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 10:17 am

    ha!

    http://exlibrisbb.blogspot.com/2008/05/compilcated-nope.html

    trade with me:leave a comment, you’ll get a comment! (;

  41. Nithin Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Great question! Here’s my answer:

    BTT: What is reading?

  47. Suey Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    I’ve got my answer here!

  51. Matthew Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Mine is up. Happy BTT everyone. :)

  52. John Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Click on my name and it takes you to this weeks comment. Very interesting question

  55. Mo Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Oops! My response has been posted all day

    http://mosmind.blogspot.com/2008/05/really-reading.html

    but, I forgot to link here…

    Have a great weekend, y’all!

  61. Literate Housewife Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Finally… Here’s mine thanks to Devourer of Books’ reminder…

    http://literatehousewife.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/btt-reading-fundamentally/

  62. Bridget Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Wow, what a lot of interesting responses! For what it’s worth, here’s mine: http://the-ravelld-sleave.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-is-reading-fundamentally.html

  66. LoriG Says:
    May 29, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    I’m there!

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  70. Florinda Says:
    May 30, 2008 at 8:13 am

    better late than never :-) ! Interesting question.

    Have a great weekend!

  73. carol Says:
    May 30, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Sorry I’m late. To read my response please go to hppt://www.charliandme.blogspot.com/

  74. carol Says:
    May 30, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    Sorry I’m late. You can read my response at : http://charliandme.blogspot.com/

  78. crazycrashink Says:
    June 3, 2008 at 9:33 am

    I rambled a bit… and I am at work so my thoughts could be jumbled :) Very interesting question!
    http://crazycrashink.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/what-is-reading-to-me/

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