I am a certified bookworm. Aside from baking, writing novels, singing covers, and playing, I love to read books all day and all night. Some of my family and friends of mine call me a bookworm...a big one. They don't understand how I can just stay in one place and read all day. But surprisingly, they just leave me alone about it.
So what's with being a bookworm? What's so unique about us? Well, let me tell you my opinion...
1. We have unimaginable reading speed
Reading a book for us is like we're under time pressure but we don't actually notice it. I've never noticed my speed in reading when a friend of mine exclaimed, "You're already in the middle of the book?!" And that book was only bought a day before.
Our speed in reading is like breathing, we don't actually control it. It just happens.
There are times when I get so into reading or I get sucked into the story, there are no more water breaks, no pee breaks...and then I'll realize, I've finished the whole damn book in a day.
Speed is unimaginable for us.
Speed is unimaginable for us.
2. We do everything just to read something
Many readers out there have a lot of money to buy themselves the book that they want. Some save their allowance so that they can buy that new book of their favourite authour. Some save so they can buy that newly-released sequel of a series. But for other bookworms who doesn't have the luxury to buy themselves books? Well, they do everything.
I am part of those bookworms who does everything.
So what if I don't have the money to buy books? What if I can't save enough money because of all the things needed for school? I had two solutions:
A. Download an app that lets you read e-books in your tablet
I downloaded an app called "Stanza" in my iTouch before. And I placed there every book I do not have money to buy. Every day until midnight, I read and read and read non-stop. Even if there's a class, I do my best to hide the thing. I was THAT addicted. Good thing my iTouch is small, so professors can't see them.
The best thing about Stanza is you can modify it to the type of reading you like. There's even a night mode! But the downside in reading books in tablets or phones continuously? GLASSES.
And this product of continuous reading in tablets led me to solution B:
B. Buy a Kindle (or any gadget with an anti-glare and electronic ink)
For me, my all-time dream was to have a Kindle. And on my birthday, I asked my brother to buy me one. And he did. So instead of reading non-stop in my iTouch, I read non-stop in my Kindle with no risk of hurting my eyes or even damaging it.
Kindle makes things a lot easier. So go buy that, if you want.
3. We are very protective of our books
I am part of those bookworms who does everything.
So what if I don't have the money to buy books? What if I can't save enough money because of all the things needed for school? I had two solutions:
A. Download an app that lets you read e-books in your tablet
I downloaded an app called "Stanza" in my iTouch before. And I placed there every book I do not have money to buy. Every day until midnight, I read and read and read non-stop. Even if there's a class, I do my best to hide the thing. I was THAT addicted. Good thing my iTouch is small, so professors can't see them.
The best thing about Stanza is you can modify it to the type of reading you like. There's even a night mode! But the downside in reading books in tablets or phones continuously? GLASSES.
And this product of continuous reading in tablets led me to solution B:
B. Buy a Kindle (or any gadget with an anti-glare and electronic ink)
For me, my all-time dream was to have a Kindle. And on my birthday, I asked my brother to buy me one. And he did. So instead of reading non-stop in my iTouch, I read non-stop in my Kindle with no risk of hurting my eyes or even damaging it.
Kindle makes things a lot easier. So go buy that, if you want.
3. We are very protective of our books
One thing bookworms hate? Books gone bad. Sure, we love the smell of new or old yellow-coloured books. But we hate...CERTAINLY hate tears or crumpled papers. Or covers that got folded. We became obsessive compulsive about it. The mere sight of it makes us anxious.
So to all fellow people who will borrow our books, beware of the lion hidden inside us.
4. We become patient
At times, we become patient. We can wait in one place for hours just as long as there is a book placed on our hands. We can wait inside a coffee shop or in a bookstore for hours.
Whenever I meet up with my high school friend, I'll always be the first one to arrive because of our schedules. So I wait for her for hours in a coffee shop in a mall. I always bring out my Kindle, put on my earphones, and lose myself in the book. My friend will arrive 4-5 hours later and I didn't even notice the time pass by.
5. We are imaginative...very imaginative
We get so caught up in a book that sometimes we believe that it's real and it's happening to us. Okay, not sometimes...always.
Whenever we read, the surroundings change and we imagine we're either the lead or we're together with the lead character. Our surroundings changes from Panem to Hogwarts to Chicago to New York in clothes of the character being narrated.
6. We wish that the stories we read are real
The novels we read tend to give us our fantasies. We wish everything is real. I once believed that a Hogwarts letter will arrive sooner or later. I once wished that Divergents were real and I was one of them.
We sometimes wish so hard that we mix it with reality. We usually wish that the fictional characters of novels were real. And we look for specific characteristics in every man we meet or date.
I am a bookworm. And I am proud to be one.
So to all fellow people who will borrow our books, beware of the lion hidden inside us.
4. We become patient
At times, we become patient. We can wait in one place for hours just as long as there is a book placed on our hands. We can wait inside a coffee shop or in a bookstore for hours.
Whenever I meet up with my high school friend, I'll always be the first one to arrive because of our schedules. So I wait for her for hours in a coffee shop in a mall. I always bring out my Kindle, put on my earphones, and lose myself in the book. My friend will arrive 4-5 hours later and I didn't even notice the time pass by.
5. We are imaginative...very imaginative
We get so caught up in a book that sometimes we believe that it's real and it's happening to us. Okay, not sometimes...always.
Whenever we read, the surroundings change and we imagine we're either the lead or we're together with the lead character. Our surroundings changes from Panem to Hogwarts to Chicago to New York in clothes of the character being narrated.
6. We wish that the stories we read are real
The novels we read tend to give us our fantasies. We wish everything is real. I once believed that a Hogwarts letter will arrive sooner or later. I once wished that Divergents were real and I was one of them.
We sometimes wish so hard that we mix it with reality. We usually wish that the fictional characters of novels were real. And we look for specific characteristics in every man we meet or date.
I am a bookworm. And I am proud to be one.
