the story, if it's a good one*, just starts to happen around me, and the pages disappear. When I'm finished, I can quote from the text and seem to have most of the story in my head. (*some stories, my eyes just slide right the hell off, and I can't finish them at ALL. And some I feel the urge to take a red pen to instead of reading.)

Does anyone else read like that?

That's pretty much exactly how I read.

I read by chunks, paragraphs at a time, and then I have to skim back sometimes if I've managed to miss something important. I read really fast and have good comprehension, though, in general.

This is me. And he idea of the current book cover as screensaver is awesome!! I wish I could do that.

Stupidly, that's one thing I don't love about the Kindle Fire. The screensavers are all sort of cool, but I'd love to have my own on there.

I used to have my own screensavers on my Nook, but then I had it replaced and I fell behind. It's dodgy because it's B&W, so I have to watch for conversion quality, but thanks for reminding me.

I'm pretty sure someone has worked out how to hack the screensavers on the Kindles, especially the new ones. Though the book cover idea is *sweet*. Someone should work on that...

I still need to get a micro USB to sideload stuff, because my phone cord won't work, and I don't have anything else that fits.

That's also how I read, the immersion...except not totally, because when I want to go back and look at a passage again, I remember where it was on the page (upper right, second para down on left page, etc). Kindle, and Kindle for iPad, BITES for that. The pagination flows differently as you move forward and backward.

I've started habitually checking the progress slider, also.

Hey, Raq, the books came! That was quick. I'm hoping to get to the post office tomorrow.

Raq, I've found that with the Fire, I'm able to find what I want that way (because I, too, remember things by page location).

because when I want to go back and look at a passage again, I remember where it was on the page (upper right, second para down on left page, etc)

I do that, too, so I'll flip through the pages glancing at , say the middle of the right hand page to find whatever. But e-books I can just do a search for text, which I love, especially for names because I am bad about keeping track of characters.

I am all about the percentage-of-book read. Even with paper books, it's a calculation I do in my head when I am, for example, convincing myself to stop reading and go to sleep. "You're exactly 5/6 of the way done," I'll say to myself, "that's a nice round number, pick it up again tomorrow."

The immersion and snapshot descriptions of reading are interesting. Either might be what I do, my process is pretty opaque to me. I definitely have trouble with my eyes sliding off of stuff they aren't glued to, or I can suddenly realize I've "read" several pages and yet that last sentence (much less the many previous) actually said.

Cool. I got the DH a Fire for Xmas (since he's an Amazon Prime member), so I'm in the process of figuring how to make it usable overseas. I may swipe either it or his old Kindle for reading, as Kindle for iPad has some limitations.