Do you read in public?

Since this is an anonymous message board, I will confess that I read literary classics in public specifically to attract literate women, and, well, let's just say it works.

I read on the bus, because if I'm listening to music I get paranoid that I farted and don't know.

So there.

I don't think anyone reads in public to impress others with what they're reading. Though I don't hang out in college towns.
But so what if they are? Pay no attention to them. If you can't strike up a conversation and maybe get him/her into reading something you like, why bother with any of this.

Wouldn't knowing make it worse?

>I hate the proletariat

>>being in public except for buying groceries and fresh air

The thing is, I'm almost 100% sure I don't, but I can never know for sure.

bait.

>listening to music
>while reading

TOP KUK

I would think as a supposed reader you'd respect that someone else is just using this otherwise wasted time on the bus to get some reading done. Maybe you only see it as showy because you're a pretentious cunt and you hate that you're giving them the recognition you want.

I sometimes read in parks or public transportation. I've also read in bars and cafes occasionally. I think I've landed around 3 dates reading in public, I should probably do it more

Yes, I bring a book with me in case I end up having to wait somewhere. I also read while eating out alone.

I read on the train for about an hour. I manage to read quite a lot during said hour.

You should see me reading this 1200 page tome called The Wealth of Nations on public transport, stares staring everywhere.

Which books were you reading?

I don't remember, sorry. Jane Austen with one dude, I remember because he commented on it and it was a book I bought from a used bookshop in London so it sparked a conversation, and with the others Murakami or Pratchett or possibly some classics, Thackeray or Brontë or such, I don't know.

I read in public because I can't concentrate at home, usually at a coffee shop within walking distance, sometimes at waffle house if I'm hungry.

I usually read on a kindle. I was kind of self-conscious recently when reading a physical book that had extensive notes, as it's difficult to flip back and forth on an ereader.
Thankfully I don't think anyone noticed or gave a shit. It's kind of bizarre that you carry such resentment towards other people reading in public OP. Do people who browse facebook in public bother you as well or is that OK since it's somehow more socially acceptable to you?

Is your waffle house like mine in that the staff are the most ignorant teenagers you've ever heard speak, and even if there's not a single other customer you have to wait half an hour for a coffee refill?

Why would anyone do and enjoy that lol

Can confirm. Works particularly well if as a guy you're reading female authors in public.

Not at all, the staff are friendly and middle aged. In fact the idea of teenagers working in a waffle house seems bizarre based on my experiences at any waffle house over the years.

Classical or psytrance. Anything without lyrics creates an ambiance around your reading.

I guess quads confirms my waffle house is the shittiest waffle house. It's in Mesa, Arizona. So it fits right in.

Listening to classical while reading is the most pathetic, bourgeois, pleb thing I can even conceive of.

I find it impossible to read in public, too distracting. I digest none of it, same for audio books too, useless to me.

I don't see anything wrong with public reading though.

underrated/10

I listen to music while writing and also sometimes when reading in public. Depending on what you listen to, it can effectively shut out the noises around you, helps you focus

I like violin sounds. Sue me. Then learn some more condescending adjectives and kill yourself you angsty little shit.

>off my meds one day
>decided to get a load on with some vodka as well
>end up literally assaulting a woman on the train who was reading tfios
>get charged
>lose my job
>criminal record
>family won't talk to me

quads confirm classical is the way to go.

Blame it on chemicals all you want. You're the shitstain that made the decision to hit her.

Have you ever commuted on an NYC train for 2-3 hours a day? And what about coffee shops? And parks? And buses and airplanes?

A ridiculous position.

That is one of the most poshlost things I've ever read on here.

based

see

That's one of the most pedantic ostentatious grandiloquent things i've ever read on here

Tell me about it desu. Why can't people be happy with who they are?

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Quit taking so much dick then.

I don't really care if people do or not. I have trouble focusing when out in public though, so in general I don't read in public. The only time I really do is if I'm waiting somewhere for a while, like at the airport waiting for a departure.

On an ereader, yeah.

>assaults another person just because you don't approve of what media they choose to consume and no one should be allowed to enjoy what I dislike

dude what the fuck. I can understand personally not wanting to touch shit books but hating on others just because their taste isn't up to your personal standards is fucking retarded. What if some fashion snob would beat you up for wearing made in cambodia supermarket-bought clothes from 4 years ago? "You are the cancer that killed local couture craftmanship, you asshole!"

Personally I find it impossible to concentrate. I need a somewhat quiet environment.

you had the moral high ground there buddy

I read at Barnes & Noble sometimes just because its a nice ambience, I like Starbucks coffee, and I get too distracted when I'm at home.

Like right now.

if i saw that guy on the train i'd want to ask him, "why the long face?"

>he doesn't listen to piano sonatas while reading

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I don't get it

>being in public
>ever

I'm similarly paranoid, just about any sort of unconscious or involuntary noise I make. I have a friend who listens to dubstep really loud on these goofy large headphones and he audibly sighs and seems to manually breath and makes little vocalizations every once in a while and I really don't want to be like him

How do you not feel a fart escaping from your ass? Is this a fat person thing?

>let's just say it works.
You lie.

>fucking this

I bring my book if I think I'll need to wait for an unspecified amount of time (doctor's office, public transit).

see a psychiatrist

Since I'm on public transportation a lot of the time, I spend it on reading.

Why do you hate people who read in public? I just about read anywhere, since I have to wait for a lot of people.

I know.

>2016
>Not shunning society and becoming an enigmatic recluse

How and why would this upset you? Are you jealous that you lack the self confidence to do what you like wherever you go? Maybe you're unable to concentrate when surrounded by all the scary strangers. Maybe other people's self confidence and expression seems challenging to you. Maybe you're a monument to shame. Be a man, user.

You know, faggot, I've literally chosen to read in a bar on my fucking Ipad for irony's sake and it actually got me laid. "user, are you fucking reading?" "God damn right; got some fine text, here. And what are you doing, here? Conversation over there must be pretty dull to talk to some guy reading on his Ipad like a weirdo, huh? I'm John Smith, nice to see you. You are?" I stretched it open deep that night, anons. Chick is still part of the harem, too. Think of that. Books in bars will get your balls sucked.

Learn to take joy from expressing yourselves pridefully, anons. The more people who see, the better.

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>buys own groceries
>thinks she's in a class above the rest

you literally did nothing wrong

I do it all the time. Did it a few hours ago at the park. Rode my bike over and brought a beach towel and notebook and stuff.

And here we have one of these guys, who's better off telling his "exploits" on /b/ then anywhere else. le upvote for the story.

I spend 4 hours a week on a train. Ofcourse I'm gonna use it to read.

Primo Levi wrote about experiences as a jew in the holocaust

Yes I do but I need to be wearing earphones at the time. It distracts me to hear people and other sounds you encounter.

Who gives a shit? Some of us have to go out in public. I'm not going to not read because of what some random faggots think.

Bang bang

you don't go outside much, do you?

Its worthwhile reading Asimov got me laid once

A couple years ago I was reading my ereader on the bus and the girl next to me asked me if you could make annotations on an e-reader
I think she wanted to fuck.

Was gonna say, you're looking pretty flat.

I picked up one of my exes because she saw I always had a book. She started talking to me and we went out for a drink. Not everyone is as autistic as you are user.

I masturbate in public.
Me horny a lot.
Black woman get mad at me.
Want to castrate myself.
My goobie has mind of it's own.
Sorry :(

Man, your life sounds hard.

Thank you.
My dad called me gay and said I should get a job. Sometimes I go into rage and punch at my mom. She say "Why your goobie out?", this angers me. I swing.

>I hate people who read
t. Veeky Forums

>I hate people who read in public.
What?

are you socially inept

maybe people read in public because they dont have time to read at home. Why do you have to be so judgemental about random people on the bus?

desu sometimes i leave by buds on even when im listening to nothing, including rn

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I honestly enjoy doing this. Any form of classical music, really, as long as it's not something obnoxious like a fucking trombone or oboe concerto.

I do. Why would I not want to go about one of my favorite pastimes in public?

Story was related. I apologize for your ineptitude.

>Implying fashion has the same importance, significance, or relevance as literature

only fascist and racist books so people stay as far away from me as possible

literally living the literary lifestyle.
good on you, m8.

I picked this up for a few dollars, finally getting around to it.

Hardcover makes it good for carrying around and it's fairly inconspicuous.

>implying one can measure the significance of one art form against another objectively
>implying any amount of reading ever leads to a learning or memorization of concrete information that will serve a utilitarian purpose

A majority of humans alive today can read, how many of them do you trust to do a job of utmost societal importance user?

legend

Not him, but boy does this hit close to home.