What time of day do you read.

I love reading in the bath but tend to fall asleep. Have ruined a good few books and a kindle by dunking them when I drop off. Now I have a rack across the bath to keep them safe!

My mum was the same Jane10. Always chasing me out to the garden. I read a lot to my two children. My son grew up an avid reader and my daughter prefers magazines and papers. My son in law reads a lot and has always read 2/3 stories a night to my grandson. I taught him to read when he was 4. Now Daddy reads one story and Calum reads a book for as long as they’ll let him. It’s very rewarding to see his delight in reading.

I read wherever and whenever and like a couple of people have said I can’t imagine not having a book on the go. Luckily DD is the same and we have much the same taste so swap books. She works in a doctor’s surgery and staff and patients drop books off into a charity box for others to pick up at 20p a read. Bliss for me! When my children were younger I belonged to a babysitting circle and I used to be fascinated by a couple of houses where there wasn’t a single book or magazine anywhere to pick up. And at nearly 70 I never feel guilty about a bit of me time with my book.

At weekends I read more during the day and so I can get through a whole book between Friday and Sunday, but during the week I take my time and read a few chapters each evening.

I can't read outdoors or when travelling so mostly I read in the evenings. I don't have a TV and much prefer books to films on DVD or downloads.

My Kindle in bed at night, while waiting at the doctor's, when flying/travelling for long periods. I always felt guilty about reading during the day when there's housework to be done but I'm getting over that now ! I read stuff on my tablet at odd times through the day and enjoy sitting out in the sun with a magazine and a coffee occasionally. I was a real bookworm as a (only) child and it's still one of my favourite things to do.

I always read in bed last thing at night, helps clear my head.

I read in the evening if the telly isn't very interesting and always for a while at bedtime unless I'm really too tired. I'd rather read than do housework and if I've got a rattling good yarn on the go I'm afraid that chores take second place (unless I'm feeling particularly industrious and get things done first thing).

First thing in the morning before I get out of bed and last thing at night before I go to sleep, sometimes I drop off whilst reading and drop the book down the side of the bed. During the day, depending on how much I'm enjoying the book. In the summertime I like reading outside, in the garden, around the swimming pool, (not my own personal pool) and on holiday.

I read at bedtime and often late afternoon.

For some reason I feel guilty reading or watching TV during the daytime. However, I read for at least an hour each morning while soaking in the bath. I am always up at 5am so it fills the time until I go for my usual walk. By then it is a reasonable hour to make noise which my attached neighbour might hear (all the floorboards creak!).

I receive several monthly magazines, and I read them on the bus. I spend 20 to 30 minutes each way on a bus several times a week. I read a couple of chapters of my Bible at bedtime, and a chapter of another book once a week when I have to remain still for 20 minutes or so for a medical reason.

I can only read first thing in the morning and I do that every day for about an hour (ish) any other time and I fall asleep! unless on holiday for some reason??
I drink my morning tea whilst reading.

I don't read in cars or buses because doing so makes me travel-sick, but I can and do read in trains and on board ships because there I am never travel-sick.

Being a compulsive reader, heavily addicted since age 5½ when I mastered the art, I read anywhere and everywhere else. I usually have at least two books on the go in one of four languages.

Usually in bed at night, but if it's a book that I can't put down then it's anytime until it's finished

Any time I have a tea or coffee moment on goes my kindle. Can't read in bed as it sends me off to sleep so gave up on that.

Kim, my brain can't take more than one book at a time - so I tend to read the whole book, be it fact , fiction or "faction"...

Whenever I can! Always on a sunbed in garden or on beach in summer- all day if I am on holiday- thank goodness for Kindles as I used to pack 12 books to take away for a fortnight.
In bed at night before I go to sleep & if I wake up in night a chapter or 2 will help me get back to sleep.
I am addicted to reading - always have been since a small child- so every opportunity I get I lose myself in a book.

I have reading time factored in every day: my lovely DH brings me a cup of tea in bed and I then read for at least half an hour (longer if the cat has settled on top of me and therefore cannot be disturbed), and I usually go to bed at 10 pm which gives me an hour. If the book I'm reading is particularly rivetting I'll have an hour in the afternoons too, with absolutely no guilt feelings whatsoever. I can't survive without books, my husband says he would find it easier to imagine me not breathing than not reading!

Traditional bedtime, waiting rooms, trains, buses, queues... I've always got a book with me and a dreaded kindle which I rarely use.

If I have a book that I am enjoying I read and read until it is finished, even late into the night.

I've often wondered about this keeping more than one book on the go. Have to assume on a mixture of fact and fiction. Maybe it's just me but I wonder if I could cope with retaining the plots of each separately. I've enough trouble working out what day it is when I wake up! Bravo to all of you who manage this interesting (but confusing) practice.

Lots of things in common with others on this thread. My reading habit was looked on as laziness when I was young and it took me ages to get rid of that furtive feeling when I picked up a book. I used to hide somewhere.
I also have comfort reads- and if I love a book I have to buy my own copy and have it to delve back into at random parts.
Lately, I've got into listening to audio books and find that listening enhances insight into a story and characters. It also helps me fall asleep too!
Does anyone else keep more than one book on the go too?
Sometimes only non-fiction will do and at others I'm back into novels.

I am on my own most days so have an audio book on as I bumble around doing my chores. I am reasonably antisocial, so have earbuds for outside of the house - shopping etc. I have a Kindle, and also have the app on my phone for appointments when I invariably have to wait. And, of course, ‘real’ books for bed time or when insomnia strikes. I don’t read as much as I used to due to the intrusions of real life - but I am never far from reading material of some description

Usually after The Archers has finished at 7.15pm.

The programmes between 7.15pm and 8.00pm go a bit bland so it's a useful 45mins to get stuck into any reading.

I love reading in bed in the morning. At night time I can only read a few pages before nodding off.
I think my mother instilled in me (as was instilled in her!) that you should be 'doing'something during the day, not sit reading a book, so reading for hours on holiday
and on sunny days in the garden are a huge and delightful indulgence!
Back in the UK the weekend papers with my husband and a pot of coffee was a lovely ritual.
Most mornings I catch up with the news and GN mid- morning with a cup of coffee......like now!