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.

"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."

Ha. Me too. But I'm not good at convincing myself to put it down. I need more self-discipline.

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?

Yeah; I don't notice turning pages, hard copy or e-readers, and I don't care about pages, because I pretty usually read a book at a gulp.

And I binge-read. Like, two days in bed, nothing but novels and tea and cigarettes; if I wore something more flowy, I could be in fucking Bloomsbury. And you know, wasn't using Nook.

Yup, I'm a binge reader too. When I should be sleeping. The iPad hurts less than a hardback when it thwaps me on the nose when I fall asleep reading, fwiw. My eyes don't deal as well with the glare after 3am, though.

I love hearing about how people read.

Raq, how's R liking the Fire?

Does anyone else feel a little hungover by a reading binge? A little headachy and nauseated?

depends.

Sophia, as with other indulgences, that depends on my book/drink of choice.