{"id":135,"date":"2025-04-21T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:09:09","slug":"you-know-youre-a-reader-when-top-15-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"You Know You\u2019re a Reader When \u2026 Top 15 Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. You always have a book with you to read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. You\u2019ve used any of the following as a bookmark: gum wrapper, Pokemon card, postcard, index card, tissue\u2026 basically anything but an actual bookmark.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. You\u2019ve stayed up past your bedtime to finish a chapter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. You have an Amazon wishlist just for books, and it\u2019s way bigger than you\u2019ll ever get to read in your lifetime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. You see someone at work or socially with a book and feel compelled to ask what they\u2019re reading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. You never say no to your kids when they ask for books at Goodwill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. You own a reading t-shirt (or five).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Your first stop at garage sales or Goodwill is the book section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. You were thrilled when teachers announced it was \u201cRead quietly at your desk\u201d time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. You strategize how to keep your book dry when you go to the pool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. You keep track of the books you\u2019ve read in Goodreads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. You daydream about having a library with a ladder in your dream house.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. You ask for gift cards for books for every birthday and Christmas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. You\u2019ve mispronounced a word because you\u2019ve only read it and not heard it said out loud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Said \u201cThe book was so much better than the movie.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which ones are you guilty of? Or what would you add to the list?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \ud83d\udca1 Come hang out with me for daily bookish chats on Facebook<\/a> or Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Which ones are you guilty of? Or what would you add to the list? \ud83d\udca1 Come hang out with me for daily bookish chats on Facebook or Instagram!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[49,100,99,98],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-know-youre-a-reader-when","tag-bookmarks","tag-goodreads","tag-goodwill","tag-tbrpile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}