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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Reading Habits</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="dress.html" title="Dress"/><link rel="next" href="other-interests.html" title="Other Interests"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Reading Habits</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dress.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="other-interests.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="reading_habits"/>Reading Habits</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Omnivorous, but usually includes lots of science and science fiction.
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The typical hacker household might subscribe to <i class="citetitle">Analog</i>,
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<i class="citetitle">Scientific American</i>, <i class="citetitle">Whole-Earth
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Review</i>, and <i class="citetitle">Smithsonian</i> (most hackers
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ignore <i class="citetitle">Wired</i> and other self-consciously
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‘cyberpunk’ magazines, considering them
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<a href="W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a> fodder). Hackers often have a reading range
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that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much.
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Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average American
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burns up watching TV, and often keep shelves and shelves of well-thumbed books
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