Reflections of an innocent child's brain : )

Now. I have to reflect and talk about my own reading preferences and strategies when I see printed materials and digital materials.

Call me old-fashioned, but i'm a fan of the dead tree format. In layman's terms, i like paper books, the kinds that's been around for centuries. I prefer reading them because i like the feel and touch of a real book around my hands, i want to smell the kind of smell you get everytime you open a freshly-printed new book, and i'm just used to buying novels to read whenever i'm bored.

I prefer to read science-fiction/fantasy novels and books about warfare i.e. treatises, field manuals, handbooks or historicals on miltary-related topics. Even the ones you get online. Don't get me wrong, online sources like wikipedia are chock-full of information and fun articles, and will always teach much more hard nkowledge than a simple book, but whenever you read those online things, you have to stomach their politically-correct, non-biased feel and also their rigid format. I also don't like to squint my eyes for long periods of time at a monitor, with or without the zoom function.

When reading something, i don't stick to any particular strategy. People who see me reading will most probably think i'm a lunatic out to destroy things. That's just it; i'm not your model image of a prim and proper reader. I can read anywhere, even while waiting for the bus, while i'm using the computer and waiting for something i want to finish loading on the screen or even using my whole sleep time. As long as that book ain't one of those boring school stuff : ) I laugh along with the funny texts i see when i read, i mimic the speech patterns (my own imagination), i make-belief the actions the characters do, i spend minutes just to comprehend a particularly interesting description, wanting to imagine the whole scene before moving on. I read aloud what i read all the time, and if i'm in a hurry but that article is too interesting for me to properly read right now, i skim through the whole text and look for the meat so that i can get "the big picture".

If there ever was a reading strategy, thought or method to my style, i guess i just gave the full, non-censored account. It's hard to tell people how i really read when most of the actions are not according to the norms of modern, politically-correct societies. I might well end up being diagnosed as "clinically insane" by some shrink and get shipped to Tanjung Rambutan : )