All of the above. But books fits the bill the best, especially as I spend hours bent over math textbooks.

I also read all forms of media but since I read books to my two children every night I picked books. My husband and I even read novels to our four year old. like "Little House on the Parire" and "Charlotte's Web". Hey any reading is good reading!

I wonder if this is unusual for Canadians? Are we attracting a book-loving elite to WonderCafe? What do you think? (I've always been a bibliofile myself!)

books are the mainstay of my life! I seldom read magazines any more because they don't go into topics very deeply - just skim the surface.

This winter I have read several books on the philosophy of religion - Abarham Joshua Heschel's God in Seard of Man, Amy Jill Levine's The Misunderstood Jew and Karen Armstrong's latest book, The Great Tradition;the Beginning of our Religious Traditions. In the last chapter of this book , The Way Forward, Ms. Armstrong notes that all the great religions, without exception, came up with some version of the Golden Rule. She accuses them of having deserted or ignored this central teaching and concludes:" If religion is to bring light to our broken world...we need to go in search of the lost heart, the spirit of compassion that lies at the core of our traditions."

I am now exploring the possibility of using mass collaboration through the internet to tackle this situation. I ask people to send me there thoghts on how to do this (in 500 words or less) and see what turns up. Big business is using this method of improving their bottom line and I don't see why people of good will can't do the same thing to promote a more compassionate world. Is anybody with me?
Mugsy.

My favourite activity, a couch, a fire , a glass of wine and a good book. I read anything really. My kids recommend some, I read and review for our church library, read books that i see reviewed in the paper. I usually get them form teh library as they have become so costly.

Over the last few years I have reread all those classics that we did in high school. THey are much better books when you read them as novels rather than as assignments

Mugsy- I think we can work together. I'm going to post in the Religion Forum the text of Hans Kung' Global Ethic. I think it is the kind of manifesto a lot of change can work from.

As far as reading, books, net , magazines, newspapers are all in play every day.

I'm having trouble answering this one - I read newspapers and books every day and well.... isn't bathroom reading what magazines are for?

I am having a difficult time answering this. I read far fewer dead tree newspapers and magazines because I read them online. I still read many dead tree books but I am getting much more of the information that I used to read in books from the internet. Many of my dead tree books are reference books and they are seldom used anymore because it is far easier to look up the information up online.

I do all of those. Spending more time on some than others at different times in my life.

Couldn't vote ... because none of them fit.

Being an art history major requires me to read a lot of beautiful dead tree books so I can write and print off my dead tree essays and write dead tree exams. I'm not much of a reader otherwise...That is, I don't read dead tree novels in my spare time, but prefer non-fiction, and since I'm lazy I just look it up on the internet.

Ooh! What I like though is that my school library is putting their scholarly articles on the internet, so I don't have to walk to the library to search for them or worry about killing more trees by photocopying them. :D

I have always been a big reader, but since about 1998 it's been primarily on the Internet. I remember picking up a book a few months ago and thinking, wow, this thing really offers information in depth!

I'm a compulsive reader. My dining room has 4 bookcases that are 6'X3' with books stacked 2 deep and more on top jammed up to the next shelf. Every horizontal surface in my house has some form of reading material on it. I also read at least 3 newspapers a day.
When I was a kid, I would read all night about once a month. Lord Of The Rings kept me up two successive nights. Now I read a 400 page novel in 8 hours.
There is no such thing as a piece of paper unless it is blank. If I see it I have read it, even if it is upside down.
I once scanned the entire bible in an evening looking for references to skin colour. There is only one - the second Song of Solomon, first verse.

But who am I to boast?

I'm with Dono, I couldn't vote because I read a newspaper daily, two on the weekends, am an avid reader of books - can't pass a bookstore without entering and buying and spend, probably, way too much time on the net.

Needed an all of the above button.

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges

read newspaper evryday but books are my mainstay. Am also a news junkie on radio and TV. Hard to vote

I used to read a lot of books, but now that I've had my daughter, I read what I have time to between feedings and changings. I try to keep the content informative, though. Usually I read Mclean's or Today's Parent. I look forward to reading novels again sometime in the next decade(hahaha).

I read books. I buy books. People ask me if I know there are libraries. Big problem. I don't read as quickly as I used to, but I read more widely.

I rarely read newspapers. Beyond the lead stories, it seems to me that they are filled with brain candy, such as "current fashions," neat new furniture, local heroes, etc. I get my news from various internet sifgts. The rest I can do without. Besyt newspaper read in my life: The Guardian, from Britain.

Gramps, you a book lover, the best newspaper has to be the New York Times Sunday Book Review ;-)