{"id":607,"date":"2007-05-14T23:59:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=607"},"modified":"2016-10-11T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:25:00","slug":"are-you-a-horizontal-reader-or-a-vertical-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/are-you-a-horizontal-reader-or-a-vertical-reader","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Horizontal Reader or a Vertical Reader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3364\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3364\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown-500x342.jpg\" alt=\"Reading on Bed\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown-500x342.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown-768x525.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a title=\"Young man reading while lying down\" href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/simpleinsomnia\/25313897893\">flickr photo<\/a><a title=\"Young man reading while lying down\" href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/simpleinsomnia\/25313897893\"> shared by <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/people\/simpleinsomnia\">simpleinsomnia<\/a><a title=\"Young man reading while lying down\" href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/simpleinsomnia\/25313897893\"> under a <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons ( BY ) license<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about your body&#8217;s position when you read, I&#8217;m talking about the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">way<\/span> you read.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about my reading habits the other day while working on another book, and it occured to me that there are two ways to approach reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Horizontal reading<\/span>: this is an approach where you try to read as many books as possible; the idea here is that the more you read the more you know. Horizontal readers voraciously devour books day after day, week after week.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vertical reading<\/span>: vertical readers are deep readers, spending more time with their books and reading them more in-depth. Their philosophy is to get as much as they can out of one book before moving on to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What kind of reader are you? If you&#8217;re like me, you probably go through periods of time when you do more horizontal reading (for me it&#8217;s summer time, when I read book after book), and other times when you savor your books, marking in them, outlining them, discussing them with a reading group. I can also be a genre &#8220;binge reader,&#8221; where I go on a binge reading a bunch of mysteries or Catholic-themed novels, or classics, for instance. Last summer I went on binge with books about great teaching. Last fall I went on a Mortimer Adler binge.<\/p>\n<p>Is it better to be a horizontal reader or a vertical reader? I don&#8217;t know. I suppose they&#8217;re both necessary. Most of the practical skills I&#8217;ve learned have come from horizontal reading. Most of my philosophical and religious views have come from vertical reading.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about your body&#8217;s position when you read, I&#8217;m talking about the way you read. I was thinking about my reading habits the other day while working on another book, and it occured to me that there are two ways to approach reading: Horizontal reading: this is an approach where you try to read as many books as possible; the idea here is that the more you read the more you know. Horizontal readers voraciously devour books day after day, week after week. Vertical reading:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-mortimer-adler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/readinglayingdown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-9N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}