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Anyways, here are a couple. Enjoy.
25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books
"The first step is admitting it. The second step is to keep right on reading."
- When you’re reading a good book, you forget to eat or sleep.
- Sometimes there is yelling.
- You’ve been traumatized by things that “only” happened in books you read.
- You think of colors in terms of Penguin classics.
- Rainy days > sunny days.
- Walking by a closed bookstore is torture. (my favourite...)
- You would never shame someone for reading. (my second favourite...)
Go read the whole list -- each item comes with a nice visual to represent that particular symptom of addiction.
Feel free to add your own symptom in the comments.
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And it could, if done right. Even those of us who read really fast max out at around 600 words per minute. This is a result of what is known as saccadic eye movement.
Eric Durbrow pointed me to this article in the Globe and Mail. Its lead sentence offers a surprising claim:
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You start to get concerned that you'll run out of books to read.