What Kind of Reader Are You?

Book Snob.
You like to think you're one of the literati, but actually you're just a snob who can read. You read mostly for the social credit you can get out of it.

Bo-o-o-o-o-gus. The kind of books I read do not lend social credit. And I am not one of the literati, I am one of the pseudo-intelligentsia.

Dedicated Reader

You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.

Very true.

Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm of course.

I'm reading Unfinished Business, Telling Lies, Explosives Engineering, and a long-titled book on forensics, and somehow I'm a book snob? I read mostly to learn, and if the entertainment doesn't teach me anything, it's worthless to me.

Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.

Funny, 3 years into college, I found myself homeless and bankrupt, so I gave it up. No Ph.D. for me. And it's been 10 years since I was so immature as to be made 'insane' by other people's grammatical mistakes - though I still offer corrections from time to time, provided I can be sure (a) I'm 'right' by some useful standard, and (b) the correction will make a significant difference in the clarity of what they've written (this means I don't bother correcting errors that are made all the time, unless a case can still be made for the audience not understanding the error).

I'm a Literate Good Citizen. Sorry, can't stay. Must go read.

Um so, Roy, any plans we ought to know about?

You're lucky the poll isn't hooked up to the DHS! ;-)

Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

Literate Good Citizen

But too many questions had no sensible answer for me.

I'm also a "Dedicated Reader..." I peruse everything from science (physics), forensics, history, biography, nonfiction, contemporary literature, the odd classic (lots of classics in college, since I majored in English), poetry, mysteries, the better childre's lit/juvenelia, even a bit of sc-fi and the odd bestseller.

And, Roy, yeah, if you can't enjoy entertainment for entertainment's sake, that DOES make you a bit of a book snob. Sorry. :)

Does anyone else find it odd that this categorization is based almost entirely on BOOKS? I read a lot, but a lot of it is journals (both literary like the Georgia Review and scientific like Science and Nature, magazines like the New Yorker and the Nation, as well as two newspapers daily. I counted up the list, and I subscribe to 23 magazines, journals, and newspapers, and I usually read them all. None of that counts for the person(s) who made up the quiz. Books are only part of the spectrum of reading, but if you read that other stuff, you end up being classified as a "book snob". Bogus, for sure.

... but if you read that other stuff, you end up being classified as a "book snob". Bogus, for sure.

Don't let it trouble you. That's the nature of quizes.