I do all of these, which one I use seems to motly depend on the quality of the book 🤔

[msdk12@c.im]

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @joinin It is only in perusing did I come to understand that peruse is a contranym, and I had been only familiar with one of its meanings! Curious if others experienced this…

[meneerdebruin@mastodon.nl]

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @joinin Also depends on the book type. I read a cookbook differently than a reference book or a philosophical work. It even makes a difference if it is literature or a science fiction novel.

So depending on the book I'm one of the six described readers.

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@AnnaBaguenaude Ah, I mean it's possible since I found it in the wilds of the internet

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@MsDK12 Yeah, I'm more familiar with the definition that would probably be closer to skimming

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@MeneerDeBruin I often do several of these in the course of reading any book, I think

[printdevil@dice.camp]

There should be "Yeet" there as well, where mid reading you realise something terrible about the author and immediately need to cast the book aside.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @joinin

[fedivergent@mstdn.social]

@MsDK12 Yes! And glad you wrote this. I came away with "wow, I've always had the wrong idea about 'peruse', thinking of it as something you do in a leisurely way'". And then a bunch of runaway musing on how I absorb a sense of words' meanings that may not always be right. Not to say that never happens, but happy to not add to that pile.

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@Printdevil That one I don't think I've ever done, but I have yeeted because the book turned out to be terrible

[printdevil@dice.camp]

@Taskerland and @vortiwife both start my mornings with "but that author bursts pigeons during coitus" and leads to many yeetingbooks.

@NickEast_IndieWriter

[vortiwife@retro.pizza]

@Printdevil @Taskerland @NickEast_IndieWriter tbf i wouldn't have read Marquis Pigeonpopper's books in the first place

[printdevil@dice.camp]

You would if they were weirdly live action animated ones with subtitled and SFX made with bleach, lemons and a potato cut.

@vortiwife @Taskerland @NickEast_IndieWriter

[rubbel@snabelen.no]

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @joinin I think I do the last one a lot. At least now. Who is yo. And what did yo really read. It is a mystery to reflect on.

[vortiwife@retro.pizza]

@Printdevil @Taskerland @NickEast_IndieWriter that's just Spielvan

[ginevracat@toot.community]

@NickEast_IndieWriter They didn't include PACE - which is where I have to get up and stomp around, muttering to myself, because I am so ANGRY about what I have read.

[ginevracat@toot.community]

@MsDK12 @NickEast_IndieWriter TIL the meanings of "peruse" AND contranym!!

Now I get to veg out on the couch right?