#reading habits

Statistics indicate that Americans are reading less for pleasure than in past years. Is the data accurate? If it is, why are we reading less?

Knowing what the ending of a book is allows you to pay attention to how the author gets you there, and more reasons it's ok to skip to the last chapter.

Think about all the ways you read, listen to, and sometimes finish the books you're interested in. I'm sure we all have strange and unusual reading habits. What are some of your weird reading habits?

Description of my reading habits, resolutions, goals, and thoughts about the causes of a reading slowdown, as distinct from a reading slump.

Readers on why they read when they don't have to.

A new study claims that reading makes someone more attractive, and we agree.

Take away my “true reader” card. After seeing virtually every book-related meme or comic or variation of a post on ...

I am what Mindy Lahiri would call a Hindu-y person, but one belief that has been stamped onto my soul ...

A bad librarian confesses: I don't read what I check out.

Gloria Steinem just said librarians have "the greatest profession on earth." Here, take a peek at what these book heroes are reading.

Who knows books better than a bookseller? Here, booksellers from a few fantastic bookshops let us know what they’re reading — and what you should read too.

Slow reading means a return to a continuous, linear pattern, in a quiet environment free of distractions. Advocates recommend setting ...

In part two of this blog post, more librarians from around the country let us peek at their personal reading lists and TBR piles.

If you were surrounded by books all day, what would you read next? Here, librarians from around the country reveal what’s on their nightstands.

Like many others here at the Riot, I’ll be diversifying my reading in 2014. Looking at my Goodreads stats revealed ...