Episode 22: Reading Habits

Good Librations Podcast Episode 22 Reading habits

Do you read on a plane? Do you read in the rain? Do you read while others sleep, or in a hammock on a beach?

Come along and find out the weird and wonderful habits of readers.

We also wade into the murky world of AI and how it is already impacts what we read.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Fourth Wing (Empyrean) series by Rebecca Yarros

Persuasion by Jane Austen.jpg   Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros.jpg

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

What are common reading habits? | YouGov –

Research Review | Australia Reads –

Australia’s Reading Habits – The City Journal
Reading the reader: A survey of Australian reading habits (publishers.asn.au)
Who doesn’t read books in America? | Pew Research Center

THE NATIONAL READING SURVEY Exploring how Australians read, borrow and buy books since 2021 (australiareads.org.au)

Amazon study reveals the reading habits of Australians - Tech Guide

Is reading in crisis? (artshub.com.au)

AI Will Disrupt How Humans Read and Write | by kaza razat | Medium

What Happens When AI Has Read Everything? - The Atlantic

'I'm Making Thousands Using AI to Write Books' - Newsweek

ABS data reveals generational reading habits in Australia – Foundation for Learning and Literacy

Reading Habit: 15 Simple Ways to Start One - Guideposts

 

Authors:

  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Malachy McCourt
  • Tim Boucher
  • Ammaar Reshi

 

Books/written works:

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
  • Babel by R.F. Kuang
  • Summer by Alexander Pope

 

Movies:

  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Matrix
  • Wall-e

I just can't help my-shelf

Authors:

  • Anthony Trollope
  • W. Somerset Maugham
  • Jane Austen
  • Mary Ann Shaffer
  • James Baldwin
  • Emilie Buchwald

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Teen mental health in an online world: supporting young people around their use of social media, apps, gaming, texting and the rest by Victoria Betton and James Woollard.
  • Outsmart your smartphone: conscious tech habits for finding happiness, balance & connection IRL by Tchiki Davis, PhD.
  • Born reading: 20 stories of women reading their way into history by Kathleen Krull and Virginia Loh-Hagan; illustrated by Aura Lewis.
  • The pleasure of reading edited by Antonia Fraser.
  • The innocent reader: reflections on reading & writing by Debra Adelaide.
  • What you are looking for is in the library by Aoyama Michiko; translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts.
  • The art of mindful reading: embracing the wisdom of words by Ella Berthoud.
  • 12 books that changed the world by Melvyn Bragg.
  • How to live, what to do: in search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen.
  • Raising readers: how to nurture a child's love of books by Megan Daley.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

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