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These days I’d like to but don’t have the time.
Not having a go at you, specifically, just the cliche of ‘no time’.I wake up in the morning and have a poo, reading STW
Next, I make a cup of tea for my wife and I and read STW while drinking it, before getting ready for work.
I often read STW at lunchtime in work, if I have time for a decent length break.
I might read STW while eating my tea, or pretty much at any point where I might be watching TV or staring at Pinkbike. (See also, playing guitar, fiddling with bikes.)
I read STW after going to bed.
I read STW in waiting rooms, trains, hotel rooms when away with work.
FTFY. 😉
Usually got 2 or 3 books on the go at the same time (one for wake-in-the-middle-of-the-night reading, one for on the bog reading and my current readnig (see that thread)) ...and 2 or 3 magazines - depends where I'm spending my lunchtime. I've noticed the only time I'm completely and utterly relaxed is when I'm reading my lunchtime mag (no, not pron - usually a film or music mag), cos I have little micronaps as the hour comes to an end. Bliss.
I've slowed down, phone being partly to blame as above. I doubt I've read much more than 10/mid teens maybe books (novels almost exclusively) this year. I used to be a quick reader as in average length paperback in a sitting or two, seven library books a week when I was a kid. Not so much these days with varifocals taking a bit of blame. Whenever there's a list of 100 classic books you have to read or whatever, I've generally read about half of them.
I see reading these days as entertainment pure and simple. I used to think of books as being somehow "improving", difficult books particularly so, and a somehow elevating way to spend time, superior to watching telly. (Which given most of the telly of the time and how many fantastic books there are may well have been the case.) But these days it's definitely waaaay too late to improve me, and I suspect books are unlikely to be up to the job.
That said I do like to have a book on the go, for when I've done wordle, quordle, octordle, globl and worldl, checked the guardian, emails, whatsapps, surf and whether forecasts, youtube updates etc etc etc.