Reading outside

[Anonymous No.20170032]

How do you typically read when you're not at home?
Do you carry a book or e-reader in a bag or do you read on your phone?
If the former, when do you do when you don't need a bag for anything else? Do you go out with a bag just for the book? Do you hold it in your hand?

Pic semi-related I guess.

[Anonymous No.20170072]

i take my bag with my pretty much everywhere i go anyway so i just keep my book in there

[Anonymous No.20170079]

>>20170072
what book is in the purse right now, femanom?

[Anonymous No.20170096]

>>20170079
the complete poems of emily dickinson. but i'm not a girl

[Anonymous No.20170108]

>>20170032
If it’s nice out, I’ll pace out in front of my apartment while reading

[Anonymous No.20170147]

I live in an apartment and every now and then I'll get out my camper chair and sit out in front and read, when the weather's good. All my section 8 neighbors look at me like I have three heads or I'm waiting for someone to sell me drugs.

At the cafe I'll just carry one or two books with me in my hand, did the same thing at the beer garden when I still drank. Or if I'm reading something on my kindle I'll just bring that.

On walks (sometimes I read while walking) I either take one paperback or my kindle. I try to pick a paperback small enough to fit in my back pocket in case I need my hands.

Sometimes at restaurants I'll bring my tablet and read on that, like when I was obsessed with reading Honzuki no Gekokujou in japanese, I'd read on my tablet with a kanji dictionary pulled up. Obviously not at very nice restaurants.

At very nice restaurants I read primarily on my kindle, because paper books look kind of low class in my opinion and I don't want to get them dirty. Kindle just kinda looks like I'm on my phone (although I don't own one, fuck spy devices).

Anyway OP if you want to look classy wear something with big enough pockets to fit a paperback or your e-reader and read on that. And if you can learn to read and walk at the same time you can increase your consumption of text drastically.

[Anonymous No.20170379]

>>20170032
I skip school and go to the woods and read there. Today I was freezing so bad I had to take a bus home sooner than expected and I spent rest of the day reading at a local cemetery, it was still freezing but I found a perfect spot where the sun always shines so I was just barely comfortable which in my opinion is the best state to read in. I also pissed 3 times on some hungarian surname grave.

[Anonymous No.20170463]

>>20170032
Honestly I can only read outside most of times, it's more distracting inside my house for me

[Anonymous No.20170500]

>>20170032
Paperbacks, usually that Oxford World Classics or Penguin size. I carry it on my backpack.
I just almost always carry a bag. There I keep my raincoat and other useful stuff. If I'm going to the theater or a concert I assume I won't be reading anything anyway.

[Anonymous No.20170545]

>>20170032
yeah i bring a bag if it's going to be easier to carry the book in. this isn't a big deal; it's just a bag.
i usually am reading 2 books at once, one of which is a manageable size to carry around and read on the subway etc

[Anonymous No.20170655]

>>20170032
before kung flu i'd commute to work by train, 1hr to and 1hr from. that when i would read and if it was an easy or a slow day at work i would read during the lunch break as well in the days off from the gym. during kung flu i fully WFH so obviously it was way easier and much more time. starting next week ill start to go 3 days into office each week so i'll get back to my reading routine on the train. i just take the book with me in my gym bag, i carried it daily since that's where i kept my food, other useful trinkets and 3 days a week the gym clothes. it is a nice and comfy routine.

[Anonymous No.20170665]

>>20170032
Honestly, the fact that this was posted, along with the image in OP, confirms that you are autistic. I remember reading a post by an autist who swears by getting bullied every time he is outside. Said he was British.

[Anonymous No.20170852]

>>20170032

Reading outside unless it's course material is seen as weird and cringe. You have to have a lot going for you like really good looks to get away with doing something like that

[Anonymous No.20171520]

>>20170032
Read da books on me phone

[Anonymous No.20171528]

>>20170032
I love reading in quiet coffeeshops. Get a bookbag :)

[Anonymous No.20171545]

>>20170096

I would love to carry around a man bag. You set the trend, kindred anon

[Anonymous No.20171627]

>>20170032
I like quiet places, not being at home is great because it also makes it almost impossible to fall for distractions.

I carry the book I'm reading in my backpack, I have to take a 1 hour bus ride to uni everyday and it's almost always empty, nice and quiet, so I just sit down and read for the hour.

I'd love to carry my ereader but I live in the second world so it's not safe to hold something that looks like a tablet in broad daylight.

[Anonymous No.20171822]

Whenever I go to a doctor's appointment or something else with a long wait time, I'll usually carry a book with me in my hand unless it's raining. Apparently this is bizarre behavior nowadays as I've had multiple nurses act like I'm lugging around a brick of cocaine. "What is that? A book? Never see that anymore."

It can be a good conversation starter, though. One time this cute Latina on the train started asking me about this fantasy book I was reading with a cool-looking girl on the cover. We talked for about 10-15 minutes and were flirting a bit. Then I realized she was in high school and I rushed off the train at the wrong stop as if the cops were waiting in the next car to storm in and say, "Surprise, mother fucker."

[Anonymous No.20171882]

>>20170032
I read in the park, there's this big park not to far from my home that can be really crowded depending on the day and hour, so i usually go around 11am and stay there 2-3 hours.
Haven't seen anyone else reading there, mostly just couples kissing on benches and parents taking a walk with their kids.
I carry a backpack with the book and some snacks, don't really like holding it in my hand, also i feel safer with a backpack for some reason.

[Anonymous No.20171887]

>>20171822
16 is legal in many states. Should have eaten her ass.

[Anonymous No.20172630]

>>20170032
I have a long lunch break at work so I usually take a walk along the nearby river while reading. People from the neighbourhood have started to recognize me and I hear them all the time saying stuff like
>here comes the professor
>yo there's the poet
>maybe he always comes here because he is in love with you
Anyway to answer your question I just carry the book by hand. No bags or anything. Got a kindle for Christmas and I gotta say it is much more practical and less conspicuous, but I still prefer paperbacks

[Anonymous No.20172698]

>>20170147
> if you want to look classy
You will never look classy.

[Anonymous No.20173013]

>>20171822
>cute Latina
worth it desu

[Anonymous No.20173565]

>>20170545
>i usually am reading 2 books at once
Like, simultaneously?

[Anonymous No.20173575]

>>20170032
I put it in my pocket duh

[Anonymous No.20173601]

>>20170032
I just always have my kindle on me.

[Anonymous No.20173605]

>>20170032
>Do you go out with a bag just for the book?
I have a backpack, and I never leave the house without it.

[Anonymous No.20175369]

>>20173575
What kind of book fits into a pocket?
Or what kind of pocket fits a book?