Do you read blogs or books?
Posted by John on April 24th, 2006
ONLINE blog reading has become a new trend for surfers, a survey conducted by the Shanghai SMMAIL Administration Center said yesterday on World Book Day. Among 2,200 respondents, 80 percent said they read online blogs. The survey also showed that 70 percent people read less than 10 books a year and 83 percent thought books cost too much.
The majority of blogs I read are by people I know, my friends. There are only a few blogs that I read out of interest for the content. Which makes me wonder, do people read more blogs because their friends blog more?
On the other hand I wouldn’t compare blogs with books, they’re a different type of experience. Which brings me to another topic, how many books do you read per year?
I only read novels, can’t seem to concentrate enough to read anything that doesn’t involve a story. Not that I am not interested, I am just not interested enough to finish those books. So I only read novels: crime, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller…
But I only read books when I am on vacation, and I have really time to finish a book in a few days. Normally I would take me 1-2 months to finish a book ( I’m a slow reader, both in English and Italian), and I tend to give up on books if it takes me that long. Also my memory sucks, so even if I did get to the end, I would have forgotten characters and plotlines from the beginning of the book.
If I could have a superpower, I would choose fast reading. What about you, how fast are you?
April 25th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
i’ve been reading “the world is flat” by thomas friedman and it has taken me almost 4 months! but it is a long book (almost 500pgs). if i read 6-8 books per year i’m already pretty happy with myself.
April 26th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I think I am near 9 books per year. It’s strange because sometimes I don’t read any book for month and then I read a lot for the same time.
If a book catch me, I can read it in few days.
But if I am bored I can “drag” it for months, on my desk looking at me, on the sofa while looking tv, on the night table remembering me “read me, read me, read me…”. Until I finish it I can’t read anything else…
Blogs? Just friends and photography.