You Might Be a Book Nerd If...

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You read while eating breakfast, lunch, dinner... and sometimes second breakfast and afternoon tea.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You keep books stacked in the bathroom.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You've tried reading while in the tub, and realized why that doesn't work like in the movies.

KellyAssauer · Aug 15, 2010

You run on a very tight timetable, unless you walk into a library or bookstore - when time seems to just stand still and hours pass by in the hevenly smell of ink and dust jackets....

*whoa* I just made myself woosey.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

ButtonTheCat said:
You've tried reading while in the tub, and realized why that doesn't work like in the movies.

You've realized this and you are highly disappointed by it.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

KellyAssauer said:
You run on a very tight timetable, unless you walk into a library or bookstore - when time seems to just stand still and hours pass by in the hevenly smell of ink and dust jackets....

*whoa* I just made myself woosey.

I think I had a small gasm just reading those words.

Sheila Muirenn · Aug 15, 2010

Your mom grounded you from reading when you were a kid.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You know what TBR means, and that pile is taller than you are.

Sheila Muirenn · Aug 15, 2010

ButtonTheCat said:
You've realized this and you are highly disappointed by it.

You read in the tub all the time and have the water-damaged books to prove it.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You wince any time someone takes apart a book because they want to use the material for something else. (Seriously, I gasped in horror when I found on Etsy someone had taken old Nancy Drew covers off a book and made them into a purse.)

Button · Aug 15, 2010

Sheila Muirenn said:
You read in the tub all the time and have the water-damaged books to prove it.

You couldn't resist the danger of water-damaged books simply because you couldn't be bothered wasting 15 minutes on something like bathing when there was a perfectly good book to be read.

Bookewyrme · Aug 15, 2010

*Reads posts so far* Check. Check. Check...hrm....Have you people all been stalking me?

Also, if you have ever tried combining reading and cooking. Successfully.

And: If you and your husband ever move to another country for a year with only what you can carry in four suitcases, and you absolutely insist that you do TOO need one of those suitcases entirely for books.

Bubastes · Aug 15, 2010

You can read and walk at the same time without bumping into people, walking into a tree, or getting hit by a car.

kaitiepaige17 · Aug 15, 2010

You enjoy walking up to random strangers and saying, "my mother is a fish," and laughing at their blank stares.

thethinker42 · Aug 15, 2010

You move to a foreign country and the military limits you to 2,000 lbs of household goods...which means you have to leave 3,000 of your 4,000 books in storage. And sorting through them to decide which come and which go makes you want to cry.

You read in the bathtub and have never (knock on wood) gotten a book wet.

KellyAssauer · Aug 15, 2010

You have multiple copies of the books you just can't live without.

The HB version that never gets read, the tray addition if there was one, the soft back in different covers, and then the one that you'll actually open...

Button · Aug 15, 2010

thethinker42 said:
You read in the bathtub and have never (knock on wood) gotten a book wet.

If you are totally jealous of people who have done this.

*is totally jealous!*

Button · Aug 15, 2010

You buy the hardback versions of your favorite books, because it does make a difference.

Shakesbear · Aug 15, 2010

Prepare your food so that you can eat without having to take your eyes from the book you are reading.

Bookewyrme · Aug 15, 2010

Got in trouble in school for reading too much in class. In English/Language Arts Class.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

If you've ever stayed in the bathroom longer, even when someone was knocking to get in, because you wanted to finished that chapter...

Bookewyrme · Aug 15, 2010

If you take a book whenever you go out, even if you know you won't have time to read it, because the thought of not having a book nearby makes you antsy. And if you use every spare five minutes while you are out wherever to read it anyway.

Button · Aug 15, 2010

If you've ever saved a particularly favorite book for a day when you don't have to go somewhere. You opt to read other books from your TBR but your heart is waiting for the one.

And there is always the one.

Yeshanu · Aug 15, 2010

Bubastes said:
You can read and walk at the same time without bumping into people, walking into a tree, or getting hit by a car.

You're not paying enough attention to your book if you can do that.

...you need someone to lead you by the hand when crossing the street, or you will get hit by a car.

Bookewyrme said:
Got in trouble in school for reading too much in class. In English/Language Arts Class.

...you hide your book in your desk to disguise the fact that you're reading during math class.

...you promise yourself "just one more page" before you go to bed, and at the end of it wonder why it's beginning to get light outside.

Bubastes · Aug 15, 2010

You limit yourself to reading short stories when you need to get some sleep during the week.

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