You Know You're Addicted to Reading When...

[jen]

This is similar to something I saw on a forum. One person starts this, and people add to it as they think new stuff up.
You know you're addicted to reading when...
1. You join social networks dedicated to books.
2. When you talk to someone, the first thing you ask is "read any good books?"
3. You can name more authors than you can actors or singers.
4. Most of the actors you can name starred in a movie based off a book.
5. Most of the movies you see are based off books.
6. You'd rather go without television than books.
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Vedikaa *Back!* (edited)
When you're very sleepy but you still read late in the night.
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Vedikaa *Back!*
When you carry a book with you everywhere.
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Wanderer
You randomly quote from your favorite books in regular conversations.
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Toxic
When you wear articles of clothing that are dedicated to the book.
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Toxic
When you'd rather read than hang out with your friends.
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Rebel Rider
12. When you try to get all your friends to read your favorite book because you think it should be more popular than it is. (Dark Life/Rip Tide are great books but not many people seem to know about them.)
13. When you start writing your own books.
14. When you always think about what you would do if you were in the same position as a particular character in a book.
15. When you drive people crazy by talking about your favorite books and they don't read the same genre.
16. When you don't get enough sleep because you were reading a very good book.
17. When the library is the only place you want to go in town.
18: When you go to a store, you stand in the book section for long periods of time.
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Captain Korina (edited)
19. When things like eating or showering become inconvenient because it means you have to put down your book.
20. You've mastered the art of reading while eating.
21. You feel slightly frantic when you're almost done with the last book in your pile and none of your holds from the library have come in yet.
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Toxic
22. When you're half way through the book and thinking up multiple endings.
23. When a series ends and you still think about what would happen next.
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Hope
24. When you have mastered the art of walking while reading(to add on to Kori's)
25. When the first thing a person asks you when you see them after a long time has passed is what good books you've read.
26. When you search through your bookshelves to find the perfect book for a friend who... *gasps* doesn't like to read!
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Ski,Read,Peace(Olymipics forever) Let it snow!
27. When you've memorized half of your favorite book.
28. When your friend hands you a bag with a dress and 4 books.
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Rebel Rider
29: When you watch a movie that wasn't based off a book and think that it was good enough to have been based off a book. (The original Star Wars trilogy.)
30: When the only people you talk to on Facebook are ones that read similar books.
31: When you follow author's blogs and are constantly checking to see if any books you've read are getting made into movies.
32: When the death of an author upsets you more than the death of any other famous person.
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Toxic
33. When you dedicate your facebook status to something book-related.
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Rebel Rider
34. When you put book reviews on Facebook to promote your favorite books.
35. When you get disappointed because no one responded to your said reviews.
36. When you write fan fiction based off books you liked. (That was a long time ago.)
37. When you write fan fiction based off a TV show and then attempt to make it consistent with the other books based of the movies the TV series is based off of.
38. When you plan to buy an ereader.
39. When almost all the blogs you follow are related to books.
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arianne c (edited)
40. When you read you can't help but come up with dream cast for the characters in the book.
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Rosie (edited)
41. When you spend hours and hours shopping for books, even though you know you're spending more money than you should.
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Shen~ I named my thumbdrive Lenny. (edited)
42. when you and your best friends are best friends because of a book or something book-related
43. when you are able to navigate any place while blindfolded [by a book cover, probably?]
44. when you have spectacles/contact lenses [because of reading]
45. when you know the librarian personally
46. when you are the librarian.
47. when you can drink, read, and walk at the same time.
48. when if the only book that's available is one about fonts, you'll take it. not-reading is worse.
49. when your teacher asks you to read and article and you're, like, 20 minutes ahead of the class.
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Allison
50. When you consider fictional characters good friends.
51. When you crush on a book character.
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Vedikaa *Back!* (edited)
52. You haven't finished the book you're currently reading and you already plan what you're gonna read next.
53. A song reminds you of a book because you listened to it all the time while reading that book cause it was perfect for the book/a scene.
(Does that happen with anyone? Happens with me very often)
54. You check the reviews of a book before starting reading it.
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Rebel Rider (edited)
55. When someone else talks about cute actors, you end up thinking "X from X book is much better.
56. When you can list more book characters you like than movie or TV characters you like.
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Toxic
57. When you debate how books are better than e-readers.. or vice versa.
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Rebel Rider
58. When you get a bunch of free ebooks because you might someday get a Kindle.
59. When you come closer to crying while reading a book even though you never shed tears while watching movies.
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Izzy Izzy Bo Bizzy
60. When you've mastered the art of continuing to read after you've walked into something while trying to walk and read.
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Mark404 - Not Found
61. You read a lot.
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Rebel Rider
62. When you mispronounce words because you've only read them, never heard them. (I have gotten laughed at for that before.)
63. When things that happen in real life remind you of something you read in a book.
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Vedikaa *Back!*
64. When you imagine what it would be like if you were in place of a particular character.
65. When you read about a place in a book and then you want to visit it.
66. When you check out a song because it's mentioned in the book.
67. When you keep waiting to be back home and resume reading.
68. When you start reading Fan Fictions just so you get to see your favorite characters.
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Toxic
69. When you're reading a book and carrying on a conversation at the same time.
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Captain Korina
70. When people know that it's best not to bother you when you're reading.
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~*~Hailey Anne~*~
71. When shopping for a purse, you have to make sure that you can fit at least two books in it, then make sure your wallet fits in as well.
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Mark404 - Not Found
72. When you're hyperventilating whenever you are in a bookstore.
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Mark404 - Not Found
73. When you start a "You know you're addicted to reading when..." list.
74. When you agree to the first few scenarios on the list.
75. When you contribute to the list.
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Hope
76. When you realize that the books you ordered are sitting by the front door during school and are tempted to skip and go get the packages.....
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Rebel Rider
77. When you keep checking the package tracking website so you know where the books you ordered are.
78. When you go to town every chance you get just so you can go to the library.
79. When you miss the mall's book store terribly when it closes and feel guilty you never bought any books from it.
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Mark404 - Not Found
80. When you are willing to commit murder just to get the book you want.
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Vedikaa *Back!*
81. When you keep re-reading your favorite books.
82. When you watch a movie based on a book you've read.
83. When you check the updates of your favorite books/books you've read.
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Rebel Rider
84. When you remember a name but for the life of you can't remember what book the name was from and it drives you crazy.
85. When the internet goes down, you tend to read at least a book a day.
86. When you read 200+ pages in a day.
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Allison
87. When the hardest part of waiting for the next book in a much-loved series is the last few days before it comes out, because it is so cluse, and yet so far. (I am guilty of wanting to storm book warehouses at this stage of the wait. You know it is ready, they just won't give it you!)
88. When you wish there would be more standalones, or the books in a series would all come out at once. So there wouldn't be anymore of that "waiting a year for the next book and forgeting the plot of the previous book" nonsense.
89. When you curse the cliffhanger at the end of a book. Often.
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Miss Fairfax - Gone fishin'... for a job (edited)
90. When your dreams circle around book storylines, book characters, alternative book endings, book covers...
91. When you understand that half the fun of reading a book is the aftermath: discussing it, dissecting it, daydreaming about it, writing fanfiction on it...
92. When lunch break = reading time!
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Rebel Rider
93. When you check the see if your favorite authors' new books make it into the top sellers list on Amazon.
94. When you get really happy when they do.
95. When you try to get to 100 in this thread.
96. When you'll read ebooks on the computer.
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Miss Fairfax - Gone fishin'... for a job
97. When all you want for Christmas is books. (pause) No, really, just books. (pause) Seriously, guys, only books!! (pause) Okay, an Amazon gift card will do. *sighs*
98. When 97 also applies to birthdays and other festivities.
99. When you get called names like bookworm and geek... and you like it!
100. When you can come up with 100 ways to know whether you're addicted to reading.
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Kris
Definitely addicted to reading then as almost all applies to me.
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Allison
101. When you see something in real life that makes you think of a book you like. (Example, if you're read the Underland Chronicles, then you think of the Underland when doing your laundry.)
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Sadra (edited)
102. When when you see a friend, the first thing you say is: "You look just like so-and-so from x!!!!!"
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Allison
102. When you don't have time to read, and feel like a part of you is missing without it.
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Toxic (edited)
103. You spill a bit of water on your book (or on a page) and start to panic.
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Wanderer
104, You are very hesitant to lend your precious books to anyone, for fear that they will dog ear 'em.
105. You planned out what books you were going to read for the remainder of the year.
106. You already began a list of what to read next year.
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Rebel Rider
107. You check out a library book that has been dog-eared and shudder in horror.
108. You plot about how when you are a librarian, you will investigate which person is dog-earing books and hunt them down so they can receive punishment.
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Captain Korina
109. When it's snowing/raining you tuck the book under your shirt to protect it.
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Wanderer (edited)
110. When you should be studying, but instead you've got your nose buried in a book.
111. You put an insane amount of books on hold at once.
112. You occasionally listen to audio books as a family.
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Kris
113. You are listening to book on audio, reading a book on your eReader and also reading a physical book
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[Cameron]
114: You are beginning to worry, because you started reading one book, bought another, rented another, dug out a few old ones, and now you are anticipating buying a new release... and you're just reading too many at one time.
115: You relate random things in your life to your favourite books.
116: You imagine yourself in your favourite stories.
(Sorry those aren't very good.. but I do those a lot)
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Allison
117. When you don't read a book for a over a month because of real life, and when you have time to read, you feel as though you MUST make up for the time you lost.
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Rebel Rider
118. When you wait for you brother to do school so you can grab his Kindle.
119. When you keep pestering wondering when he is going to finish reading the book on the Kindle so you can use it.
120. When you're hoping he doesn't read too much because you'll never get the Kindle.
121. When you offered to pay for half the Kindle so you could share.
122. When he didn't want to do that because he knows how much you read.
Anyone guess that we just got a Kindle?
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Kat
123. You accidentally leave your book in the car that you're family member took, so you borrow someone's car, drive over to where the car is and get the book.
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The Falling Eagle
124. When you feel such a strong need to constantly have a book on you that you find yourself accidentally bringing your book into places like movie theaters, chemistry classes, and other places that you know you probably shouldn't read in
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Arra
125. When you keep adding books on Shelfari like you have to read this, you like this, you want that, etc.
126. When you thought a certain event happened in real life but then you realized it was part of a book you've read before.
127. When you have Shelfari, Goodreads, Anobii, etc.
128. When you know a book by heart. (Harry Potter anyone?)
129. When a person is asking about a particular book or character in a book and they will refer him/her to you because they know you knew everything about it.
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Wanderer
130 ~ You're out and about, waiting for someone in any random parking lot, tapping your fingers against the dashboard, when you suddenly reach for your purse (or bag or any random hidey hole) and realize you left your book at home, and start to hyperventilate...
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Captain Korina
131. You get very emotionally invested in the characters and their lives. This happens to me a lot. There's a lot of random yelling and laughing and misty-eyes. lol
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Captain Korina (edited)
132. When you're sitting in a waiting room/office and you start naming the fish after characters from books. (Did that this morning)
133. You try to think about which characters the people around you most resemble and start making up stories for why they're there.
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Sadra
134: (Well, my daddy came up with this one, actually, when he saw me reading through this) When you read through this entire thread.
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Sadra
135: When you just got your braces messed with and instead of an aspirin you take a book.
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Missy (edited)
136: When your not reading a book or your near completion of one you go into book withdraw and get cranky and impatient and even depressed if at the end of a series.
137: When you know you'll like or dislike a book based on the main characters name.
138: When you compare the book your currently reading to another book you read
Katherine
139. When you rant on facebook about what you read
140. When your twitter updates are about what you are reading
141. When you would rather by a book than a video game
142. When you day dream about being someone in a novel
143. When you co-play/halloween as a novel character (like I played Mac Lane from Moning's Darkfever for Halloween) instead of a movie/comic character
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