Comments on: Learn More About Reading Addiction

By: Silent Fox

Silent Fox — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:55:29 +0000

I never really thought I had an addiction till my computer died one day. I decided to look through my books, even counting as I went. After getting to a hundered, I started to wonder…is there something wrong? My entire days had been spent on the internet, reading anything from online manga, to fanfiction. 100,000 wordstorys would be gone in hours, as I soon forget what it had even been about. I can never seem to go online without reading a story, and if I’m away, a nice fiction book helped me. Now that I think back, I know it’s true…and feel terrible. My new look on life is helping me, I now go out more often.

By: Jal153

Jal153 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:50:50 +0000

I believe that i might have a reading addiction. The first book i picked up and read was Twilight. It was my senior year (last year) and i thought i needed something to do during my study halls and reading was it. I am now in my first year at college and I have more down time and more issues i have to deal with. and my room mates actually brought it up to me that all i ever do is sit in my room and read. i don’t hangout with them anymore and they had stopped asking me to do things with them because I just end up turning them down anyways. It really hurt me for them to say this. But at the time i was dealing with a lot of issues and i read to escape them. But there has to be a worse addiction then reading…

By: haris muzaffar

haris muzaffar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:26:04 +0000

a point comes when you have to balance reading with writing. reading is like eating and writing is like exercise. but what about rest…? well, doing nothing much (lyming) is a sort of spaced out situation where you enter a meditative zone. it is not very different from a vacay on a far off island in the carribean. all work and no play makes jack a dead, dull and boring man (and jill a rich widow). and come on, i mean, lets face it, even the most inveterate intellectual comes to a point in his life where he doesn’t want to look at a book, far less read it. this is called supersaturation and requires a moratorium. a break from reality doesn’t necessarily have to be fantasy-based. rather it is an incubation period that allows breathing space to the unconscious to perform its intricate operations unhindered.

By: Alicea

Alicea — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:23:34 +0000

I do have this problem right now my life is very hard so I looked it up… I realize that I do have this issue and I’m trying HARD to try and get into other things but when I woke up this morning the first thing I thought about was were my book was and what happened last time I was reading I then got out of bed and started reading… I read from when I wake up to when I go to sleep only sometimes breaking to get out the car or to go to school… this is a very hard thing to try and break but I am realizing that its something I really should break and that I need to face reality and that I cant just hide in the world and plots of my books.

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:05:05 +0000

I seem to share pretty much all the symptoms of reading addiction that everyone else has! I discovered the Kindle app for iPhone and read 36 books on it in one month. On my iPhone. My husband bought me a Kindle for my birthday and was ecstatic when I started donating all my paperback books from the basement. I’ve been a reading addict since I was about 3 years old and learned to read. I would go through periods of time when I would save up all my allowance as a kid and spend it all at Waldenbooks buying entire series of books at a time. When I started running out of money, I’d start buying books based on the number of pages! I would compulsively work my way through authors’ entire bodies of work (although Azimov broke me – I gave up after about 10 of his reference books). Even if the book was absolutely awful I would feel compelled to finish reading it and even then I’d go on to buy subsequent books by the same author. I can’t start a new book in the evening because I will not sleep until I’ve finished it, and I get seriously angry when the next book in a series is not available for kindle when I want to download it immediately.

The saving grace for my Kindle is all the free and $1 books available for it. I’ve been downloading all the classics to reread just to keep myself from going broke. It is WAY too easy to buy ebooks since you don’t even have to leave the house. At times it seriously becomes an issue. My husband nags me for always reading and I’ve even gone on “errands” only to hunker down in a parking lot to read in peace. Yikes!

By: Kindle Addict

Kindle Addict — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:28:18 +0000

Great post and even better comments! My particular area of interest at this point is how additional convenience of ebooks (such as Amazon’s Kindle) will cause even more individuals to become addicted to reading (I’m calling it kindicted, but kindleholic is used frequently as well). Most Kindle users surveyed have no issue admitting that they are kindicted, but they have no desire to stop. If anyone has any further insight, please post here or visit kindicted.com

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:46:38 +0000

My wife has been reading so much the last year, she stays up late thru the night and every time I see her during the day she has a book or the computer reading. She ignores calls she doesn’t keep up on the house work, I looked on the bank statement and she had ordered 45 online books the last month. I have printed stuff out on reading addiction and she’ll throw it down like it’s not an issue. She comes from a family that has all struggled with addiction, and I really thought that she was different. it’s getting harder to handle, I will tell her at night that she is reading to much and she’ll blatently ignore me and continue on like she doesn’t care. I feel like she would be fine with a book and would rather not deal with me or our three children. The kids always tell me all mom does is read and I am coming to an end of dealing with this. Are reading addicts willing to throw away family and reality to fall into a fantasy land to ignore reality? to me I think that staring at a damn book all day and night would be pretty depressing. Will it ever end?

By: bkrdr63

bkrdr63 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:18:30 +0000

Heaven for me would be a cabin out in the woods,no phone, lots of wood aready cut and stacked,food stocked and wall to wall books-history,classics, and popular fiction. Oh yeah, and no one around to bother me.Definately no computer or tv.Just books, glorious books!I would choose reading over sex any day!I know that it is an addiction(it runs in the family- my 2 year old great niece is book obsessed already-even takes them to bed with her and has to be read to before she will get up in the mornings)but I really don’t want to stop. I used to have chemical dependencies and this won’t kill me at least and is alot more socially acceptable(and legal).I guess I just have the “addiction” gene.I read alot growing up but now that I have changed my lifestyle and cut out the illicit substances I find that I cannot read enough!In fact,it really bothers me that when I die there will still be books that I haven’t had a chance to read yet!

By: hass

hass — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:36:24 +0000

i think my reading started when i was 11 i read tolkeins books at such a young age and i understood them completely and for my vocabulary many people thought i was genius and people were either envious of or made fun of me so i generaly stopped i became involved in sports video games messing around est i managed to keep my grades afloat so my parents wouldn’t complain im 18 now and i decided to start reading some novels i haven’t seen any of my old friends and i feel i have little in common with most friends my tastes have radically changed and i feel lost as too who i am. am i a sports jock a football fanatic or a book worm?
to very different people in one.
reading too much affects my life and i can’t stop when im reading a good story i can hardly talk to my mates about how great this book is. lol.

im going to force myself to 2 hours a day max rather than the 5 hours i have been doing. i found the chapter a day thing to be bad because some chapters are 2 pages ad i feel cheated.

2 hours max remember!

By: rosary

rosary — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:33:18 +0000

i am 16 and i am addicted to reading. i’ll admit that reading has provoked my low gpa. im still a softmore though. when i read the comment about someones son not graduationg cause of reading, i suddenly realized the danger im in. that is not what my future will look like because i like being the one in control. i have a natural need to succeed and win. reading the end of a book is a sort of accomplishment for me. i like it. i’ll also admit that i do escape reality through books, i’m obsessed with stories especially when they give me that feeling where i think: “this story is great! this proves i’m not the only one experiencing these types of things! I’m inspired!” And as we all know, there are many of great stories out there that strike that chord. i will do my best to study on school now, and my friends for that matter. thank you for the inspiration, let’s just hope it doesn’t wear off.. because i’d have to read another book to get inspired all over again ;]