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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 1:00am
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Do you like to read?
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I like to read.
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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 1:49pm
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Even though I'm the one who pressed "post message" the thread doesn't belong to me. It belongs to TORn. 
And cool video! Thanks for that!
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
May 12 2016, 3:06pm
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But sometimes I don't bother and just post all my opinions anyway. 
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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 3:19pm
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One can also just make up stuff and respond to it.
"So you're saying that we should sacrifice cute puppies and orphaned nuns to Satan so that we can resurrect Hitler? I must respectfully disagree."
Easy way to win a debate.
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Meneldor
Valinor
May 12 2016, 3:22pm
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Kilidoescartwheels
Valinor
May 12 2016, 3:29pm
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but actually finding the TIME is difficult. I have a huge collection of books that I fully intend to read, someday.
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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 3:42pm
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I have an entire closet of books I intend to read some day, including a collection of essays by Michel de Montaigne I've had for fifty years.
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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 3:44pm
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Dictionaries and encyclopedias, oh my!
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dernwyn
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May 12 2016, 4:15pm
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And the library has not yet given you an overdue notice?
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dernwyn
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May 12 2016, 4:17pm
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What is this "phonebook" you speak of?
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Seriously - I've heard some of the younger generation wonder what it is!
An icon of a bygone age...(but I sure am grateful for "reverse phone lookup" on the 'web!)
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Darkstone
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May 12 2016, 4:39pm
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I think the library is long gone.
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Actually it was one of my free books for signing up for The Book-Of-The-Month Club. A poor country boy tends to build up a library primarily of freebies and used books. I got the whole LOTR trilogy for a dime apiece.
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lionoferebor
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May 12 2016, 5:29pm
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I rarely finish a book. I have a habit of getting about half way through and abandoning one for another. There are about a handful - maybe a handful and a half - of books I've actually read cover to cover. And only two I've read twice and would consider reading a third time.
Time. If I had more time I would read more. Perhaps starting with the books I've abandoned.
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dernwyn
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May 12 2016, 6:20pm
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One of the best things to spend 30 cents on!
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What a deal! (Although I must admit, back in those days, a dime went a lot farther than now.)
Reminds me of how gramma came across LotR...in a pile of cast-outs by the side of the road...amazing things happen in this world.
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dormouse
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May 12 2016, 10:07pm
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Am currently struggling with War and Peace. Think I might need glasses....
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dernwyn
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May 13 2016, 12:50am
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I always had to make sure they spelled my surname correctly (or as it's been spelled for four generations now - had ancestors who "Americanized" their names when they immigrated, then couldn't settle on how to spell the new ones...)
In my dad's family, growing up on a farm in the Midwest, they always looked forward to the phonebook - and the Sears catalog. To keep on hooks in their outhouse.
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Kim
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May 13 2016, 2:46am
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I do that every time I get a new phonebook (they do still deliver small ones), followed by "Things are going to start happening to me now." 
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Kim
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May 13 2016, 2:55am
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Haven't been able to stop since I learned how!
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I love reading and would do book reports for extra credit all through elementary school. It has ebbed and flowed over the years as school and work were busy, definitely picked back up when I joined a book club and also when I figured out how to get library books on my Kindle. I tend to split my reading time between ones new to me and old favorites.
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Annael
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May 13 2016, 3:44am
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and then re-read, and then re-read again.
I always have several books going at a time. When I was a kid & people would ask where I was, the usual answer was "somewhere with her nose stuck in a book."
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Dwarewien
Rohan
May 13 2016, 10:34pm
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even though I've been reading more fan fics (nothing Tolkien related I'm afraid, it's mostly Jurassic World fanfiction, including one where the Indominus gets away from the Mosasaurus and climbs her way out of the lagoon. Yikes! This story is set after the events of the movie) than actual novels. I don't read as much as I used to, since I used to be able to finish a book the size of Lord of the Rings or Under the Dome in about a month. Now I only read when I'm doing the laundry (which is every two weeks or so). Like some of you probably know by now, I prefer a real book to an e-book, since you don't need batteries to read a real book, so this is something I will remain old school with.
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Annael
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May 14 2016, 2:59pm
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we'd have more than one and we'd vie to find the weirdest names.
Now I look at the credits after a movie for the same thing. Passes the time until the after-credits scene. If you're looking for a diverse culture the folks working "post" on a movie surely represent one.
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Omnigeek
Lorien
May 15 2016, 10:20pm
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I suppose I'm dating myself with that line but I believe it. One of the greatest joys of the modern era is that I can carry an entire library with me when traveling -- gone are the days when I'd pack 6-12 paperback books and finish them before finishing my holiday.
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Phonebooks mostly . . . //
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