When/why did your reading habits change?
Jul. 9th, 2022 06:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaOne of my friends commented that the worst part of the burnout that came with doing got a PhD was losing the ability to read for fun. I replied that it sounds very difficult.
Reading is what I have always done to relax. I didn't get a burnout with my PhD, but it still marked a huge change in my reading pattern. I deliberately tried to spend less time reading, in an effort to get the number of hours I was working on the degree to approach 40 a week. It worked, in terms of books (the hours actually working only rarely got that high), but it was during my PhD that a friend introduced me to MySpace, and then I found out about LiveJournal and could happily read SCA event reports from the West and An Tir, and thus keep in better contact with people I missed and hadn't seen in a while, and then both blogs and FB gradually worked their way in. As a result I suspect my recreational reading hours either syayed the same, or increased, but the number of fiction books a year went down, and then decreased even more when I moved to Sweden and started trying to do all of my fiction in Swedish to increace my vocabulary.
More recently I have started adding audio books into the mix, and the (bery occassional) podcast. This one is a surprise addition. With my hearing problem I always hated trying to listen to speach when I couldn't see the speaker to read their lips. But hearingaids with Bluetooth streaming directly from the phone to the hearingaids plus a job that includes lots of boring repetitive tasks has made the prospect much more appealing.
Do you track your reading?
I am an avid re-reader, but I didn't start tracking my reading at all till I started my PhD, and that tracking hasn't been copied from my phone app for logging everything into a spreadsheet at all in recent years, so I can't say what the ratio actually is, but I have always felt the need to re-read at least one old fvourite in between starting something new; I can put down and walk away from an old favourite easier than something new (especially if the new is a long awaited book in a series).
Reading is what I have always done to relax. I didn't get a burnout with my PhD, but it still marked a huge change in my reading pattern. I deliberately tried to spend less time reading, in an effort to get the number of hours I was working on the degree to approach 40 a week. It worked, in terms of books (the hours actually working only rarely got that high), but it was during my PhD that a friend introduced me to MySpace, and then I found out about LiveJournal and could happily read SCA event reports from the West and An Tir, and thus keep in better contact with people I missed and hadn't seen in a while, and then both blogs and FB gradually worked their way in. As a result I suspect my recreational reading hours either syayed the same, or increased, but the number of fiction books a year went down, and then decreased even more when I moved to Sweden and started trying to do all of my fiction in Swedish to increace my vocabulary.
More recently I have started adding audio books into the mix, and the (bery occassional) podcast. This one is a surprise addition. With my hearing problem I always hated trying to listen to speach when I couldn't see the speaker to read their lips. But hearingaids with Bluetooth streaming directly from the phone to the hearingaids plus a job that includes lots of boring repetitive tasks has made the prospect much more appealing.
Do you track your reading?
I am an avid re-reader, but I didn't start tracking my reading at all till I started my PhD, and that tracking hasn't been copied from my phone app for logging everything into a spreadsheet at all in recent years, so I can't say what the ratio actually is, but I have always felt the need to re-read at least one old fvourite in between starting something new; I can put down and walk away from an old favourite easier than something new (especially if the new is a long awaited book in a series).
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Date: 2022-07-09 06:06 pm (UTC)