Swiped from Archie.

• Hardback or paperback?

I don’t mind really. Paperbacks are easier to carry around but hardbacks look and feel nicer.

• Amazon or brick and mortar?

I love wandering around bookshops but here in Sevilla there is a very limited selection of books in English, so Amazon is quite useful.

• Barnes & Noble or Borders?

No comment.

• Bookmark or dog-ear?

Bookmark. Though I sometimes dog-ear pages I want to go back to and I only ever dog-ear paperbacks.

• Alphabetize by author, alphabetize by title or random?

Alphabetized by author in two sections – fiction and nonfiction.

• Keep, throw away, or sell?

Keep!

• Keep dust jacket or toss it?

Keep it.

• Read with dust jacket or remove it?

I read with the dust jacket removed, otherwise it gets all ripped.

• Short story or novel?

Novels, usually.

• Collection (by same author) or anthology (by different authors)?

It depends, but once I find an author I like I tend to buy everything they’ve ever written.

• Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?

Harry Potter (have no idea what the other one is).

• Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?

I usually stop reading when I doze off, which can even happen in the middle of a sentence.

• ‘It was a dark and stormy night’ or ‘Once upon a time’?

Either, depending on my mood.

• Buy or Borrow?

Buy.

• New or used?

There aren’t any good used-bookshops in Sevilla. 😦

• Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse?

Usually browsing and personal recommendations.

• Tidy ending or cliffhanger?

I like a proper satisfying ending – I always feel cheated when a story just fizzles out. Cliffhangers only work in a series.

• Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading?

Anytime, though I usually tend to read at night.

• Standalone or series?

Both.

• Favourite series?

Discword (Terry Pratchett), Falco (Lindsay Davis), Harry Potter (what’s-her-name) and various trilogies, especially Robertson Davies.

Consider yourself tagged Ivan and psychocandy.