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What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/2/2010 3:34:41 AM
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Pauls_Kin
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I stumbled across online literature.com a couple of years ago; they have lots of older "classic" books you can read for free online. At the time I'd just finished watching "Nicholas Nickelby" which was pretty well done, and one of the things I greatly enjoyed was the language. I figured they must have lifted all the best parts out right out Dickens' original text, so I decided to read it.
Virtually all of it I read screen by screen on a Blackjack II cell phone. That was a real challenge, but still not the challenge reading it as originally published, having to wait for each successive installment to be printed! Either way, it was a wonderful book.
Anyway, that's the strangest way I've read a book (I've since read a couple of others the same way). So what's the most curious way you've read a book?
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/3/2010 3:15:11 PM
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I don't think that's strange. I read an entire book when I had one of the first pocket pc pdas. that was prob ten years ago.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/4/2010 9:55:14 PM
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The most unusual way I've read a book was using a talking book for the blind. The difference between the books on CD that are normally offered to the general public and the ones for the blind is that you use a special machine for the talking books. You are able to adjust the speed so that the reader's voice can be sped up or slowed down. I turned it up pretty fast. Drove my mother nutz. That was years ago.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/5/2010 10:00:27 PM
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I read (actually listened to) the Thirteenth Tale on audiocassette in my car driving for work (not that unusual for me). However, on a Friday afternoon I was nearly to the end of the story and right in the middle of the big reveal. I couldn't stand the thought of waiting until Monday morning to find out how it ended and I didn't want to drive around wasting gas just to listen to the story. So I talked my DH into going to Target with me and buying a Walkman. I didn't even know they still sold them. I got it home and finished up the book lying on my bed listening to the Walkman.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/6/2010 2:31:48 PM
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ummm...on acid (way back when i was a heathen)
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/7/2010 2:09:39 PM
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/7/2010 2:18:15 PM
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Ouch!
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/10/2010 3:33:44 PM
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When I was young there was a personality clash in our house: I was an insatiable reader and my mum was over-protective and always worried that novels might "give me funny ideas" or make me ask questions she didn't want to deal with. So, at age 14, when I discovered Alexandre Dumas on our bookshelf, I took to reading while standing on a chair next to the shelf, listening with one ear for my mum approaching, so that I could put the books back in time and pretend nothing had happened. I read the entire of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo" (more than 2000 pages altogether) that way. My mum never knew  .
LOL! That's so cute, I love your story. That sounds like something I would do.hehe. I was an avid reader (hmm..still am!) as a child, and I used to read so much my parents had to limit how many books I could buy.lol. I'd get my allowance and use it to go buy books. 
I can't think of any strange place (or strange way) I've read a book. I guess the strangest place would be sitting on the stairs. The strangest way, maybe while I was walking trying to read at the same time, or while brushing my teeth. When I get into a good book, it's hard to put it down.lol.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 6/29/2010 5:11:11 PM
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/5/2010 12:20:45 AM
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I have to say I have two that fit this,
I was testing a wearable computer setup, with a heads up display. One of those little plastic eyepieces that displays just text. I read one on that while walking around doing chores and such, with the ripped off top of a Walkman as a forward and backward button(it worked, and we had it to use lol)
The other, In a tub(empty) at 2 in the morning, in the middle of our last Indiana family reunion, reading the last harry potter book so that I could read it the first night.
I was in the tub because my father will wake up and toss and turn with any light, as we were sharing a hotel room, it was the only way to do so without waking him. So I am in a tub, with 3 blankets under me, a comforter on top of me, 2 pillows, and a Tupperware bowl of dry cheerio's for a snack on my legs, and a camel back with soda in it for a drink.
Dad walks in around 6 and I am into my second run-through...I think he has never wished more for a camera to be nearby than at that moment.(I hid it just in case )
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/8/2010 5:35:43 PM
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Iz jail strange? Read plenty of books there because i had plenty of time.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/8/2010 5:59:15 PM
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I know someone who read "War and Peace" (Leo Tolstoy) by visiting the bookshop every lunch hour and reading a few pages at a time. Took him weeks, but he finished it.
Liked it so much that he then bought the book.
He is now reading "Crime and Punishment" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) the same way.
He intends to read the Encyclopedia Britanica next - all 24 volumes of it ...
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/8/2010 7:21:48 PM
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WEEKS to finish War & Peace by reading it on his lunch break? I'd think it would take longer than that!
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/9/2010 7:51:13 AM
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And I thought I was strange reading books while walking my dog! Sometimes I'd have an audio book cassette or sometimes I'd hold the actual book in my hand. The dog loved this because we'd be out walking for about an hour that way.
Now I am reading on my laptop and my blackberry.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/10/2010 1:50:31 PM
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On computer, serialized in several issues of the old (and sadly defunct) e-zine Deep Magic.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/11/2010 8:14:38 PM
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Does having a jealous kitty sitting on your lap, flicking her paw against the pages count for anything??
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/11/2010 9:09:21 PM
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I wrote a book like that once.
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RE: What's the strangest way you've read a book? - 7/12/2010 8:31:39 PM
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I write my stories like this ALL the time. She sits at my feet, pawing at me. If I sit on the couch, she squeezes between me and computer. Ahh . . . The joys of a jealous kitty.
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