They don't. I think that's pretty much the answer.
Years ago my then-girlfriend's brother, who was a pensions salesman, visited my house and said that he could instantly judge my level of education and probable social status simply by the fact that I had bookshelves. (Making that kind of snap assessment was, of course, a profesional skill for him; he needed to know which of his company's products's I'd be most likely to want to buy!)
I've actually found that these days - since the Internet, basically - I read fewer books cover-to-cover but I still have a lot lying around to dip into in the sort of moments you list; waiting for a kettle to boil, waiting for the loading screen on a computer game to reach 100%, waiting for my iron to reach proper ironing temperature. :-)
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Date: 2010-01-13 08:01 pm (UTC)They don't. I think that's pretty much the answer.
Years ago my then-girlfriend's brother, who was a pensions salesman, visited my house and said that he could instantly judge my level of education and probable social status simply by the fact that I had bookshelves. (Making that kind of snap assessment was, of course, a profesional skill for him; he needed to know which of his company's products's I'd be most likely to want to buy!)
I've actually found that these days - since the Internet, basically - I read fewer books cover-to-cover but I still have a lot lying around to dip into in the sort of moments you list; waiting for a kettle to boil, waiting for the loading screen on a computer game to reach 100%, waiting for my iron to reach proper ironing temperature. :-)