by Associate Librarian Leah
You may have taken various tests/quizzes to figure out your personality type/s (Enneagram, Myers Briggs, etc). Have you ever considered what your reader personality type is? I recently found this list of reader personality types from Author Janie Crouch’s Facebook page.
I posted it in our staff lounge and I have enjoyed reading my coworker’s responses. I tend to be C, D, F, H. I am also part A, as I sometimes read the last sentence first and also part I, as I sometimes cannot remember if I have read a book or not – ha! This would be a fun book club discussion question or to talk about with friends if you are a C!
What’s your reader personality type?
A: Reads the last chapter first
B: Decides to DNF (did not finish) within the first two chapters
C: Texts friends to squee about the book they’re reading
D: Searches for spoilers
E: Only reads series in order
F: Buys books based on cover alone
G: Refuses to DNF (did not finish)
H: Has a TBR (to be read) mountain but still buys or borrows more books
I: Never remembers book titles
Staff Responses
Juliana:
- F: I buy/borrow/read books based on cover alone and advise patrons to do the same! If something looks interesting to you, check it out! Not always a win but always fun.
- H: My TBR only grows, like never, ever shrinks. It is very hard for me to leave the library empty-handed.
- I: I’m pretty bad about remembering book titles (and worse with movies!). I’m always like, “What was that book I read two months ago? Something, something witches? Or something like that?”
Hannah:
- B, E, and H. Also, I. I might not remember titles or authors’ names, haha, but I can still find the book with enough random details!
Mary:
- B: As a working mama, I simply don’t have the time to finish a book that I’m not completely obsessed with by chapter 2!
- F: As a library worker I rarely actually purchase books but boy does that “reserve” button have me in a chokehold.
- H: I won’t even pretend that monkey isn’t on my back.
