The ideal reading expirence or as some like to call it, what makes reading good...

So the ideal reading experience is what? Or maybe it should be a who or a how?
Many people feel they have to read something because they are told too or because they are forced to. That's not how one should read. The ideal reading experience takes place somewhere where you can be alone with your thoughts, somewhere you can sink into the pages like a feathered bed.

Whether its on the subway heading home after work sharing a few moments with the friend that doesn't judge, the classical novel, or curled up in the corner of the library, hidden in the stacks free from your own distractions. Others find the ideal reading experience to be in other venues such as coffee shops or bookstores. I prefer to read at home either on a couch or in my computer chair. Background noise is fine since I'm usually concentrating on the task at hand.

So you’ve found your quiet niche. What about the book itself? If it’s a textbook for class I run the risk of getting bored and trying to distract myself from reading it. The ideal book should be something you like, something that holds your interest, and when 3 hours pass you should struggle to put it down.

I prefer a good book that plunges straight into something. In other words a book, which doesn’t take forever describing the setting, but lets the readers get into the characters heads and relate to them. An ideal book keeps you running pages, even after your parents have sent you to bed, hence the reading under the covers, waiting and listening for them to come down the hall so you can attempt to fake snore as if asleep. The book doesn’t let you put it down. You find yourself reading it during your lunch breaks and on the train ride home. After you are finished with it, a few weeks later you read it again. Therefore the ideal reading experience is based on not only where you read the book but what’s in the book as well.

Time for another cold one...