# What Do YOU Stock Your bathroom reading Shelf With? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813 "2003-03-24T17:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/21 "2003-03-25T06:04:20Z")
Adams, Cecil. _The Straight Dope_. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. A veritable bargain at $10.95! ($14.95 in Canada) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/22 "2003-03-25T08:11:38Z")
Hustler Swank Cheri One Playboy (for the grandpa types) The Holly Bible. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/23 "2003-03-25T11:41:34Z")
A collection of nonsense from Ogden Nash has been on the bathroom window sill since we moved into our house. I look at it every now and again but I’m more a newspaper man when it comes to reading in the jacks. ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/24 "2003-03-25T13:45:16Z")
New Scientist (Old ones) The Onion - Our Dumb Century. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/25 "2003-03-25T13:56:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*I don’t read in the bathroom, and I’m somewhat confused by those that do. There’s no reading material in my bathroom. \*\* I’m right there with ya, **porcupine**. I’ve never understood it either. I get in. I get out. Nobody gets hurt. If I wanted to read, I’d lay on the couch. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/26 "2003-03-25T14:29:23Z")
I usually co-opt the Reader’s Digest and have a book or two. It drives Welbywife nuts, because she’s not a bathroom reader and thinks the habit is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/27 "2003-03-25T14:42:09Z")
I have political stuff, whether its books, leaflets or articles I’ve printed out. See, this way I’m not bothering my roomies by telling them to read it - but I know that if its there, they will. Pretty clever if I do say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/28 "2003-03-25T15:20:38Z")
I always have the latest _Austin Chronicle_ a hand, plus a book. _Annals of the Former World_ is my current selection. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/29 "2003-03-25T15:23:06Z")
**at** hand, at hand… geez…I’m codin’ fer crap today… ---
**Author:** ![panmarblic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@panmarblic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panmarblic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/30 "2003-03-25T15:35:38Z")
anything but porn. There’s nothing more disgusting than hitting the bowl or the bottom of the seat w/ your throbbing erection. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/31 "2003-03-25T15:50:44Z")
I don’t understand people who _don’t_ read in the bathroom. Do you just stare at the wall? ---
**Author:** ![Ego\_Mk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Ego\_Mk2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ego_Mk2)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/32 "2003-03-25T16:10:14Z")
There’s nothing to read in my bathroom either, but there isn’t really room for anything anyway. Living by yourself gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want, including leaving the bathroom door open. The cats like to hop on the sink and beg me for a drink out of the faucet. I’m all business in the bathroom. I spend as little timein there as possible. No time for reading! There’s work to do! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/33 "2003-03-25T16:14:00Z")
Back issues of Saveur magazine. I find it humorous to be reading about food while, um, struggling with the inevitable aftermath of eating. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/34 "2003-03-25T20:06:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*I don’t understand people who _don’t_ read in the bathroom. Do you just stare at the wall? \*\* No, but I’m not usually in there for more than a few minutes - I like to get in and out as soon as possible. It’s not exactly the most comforable chair in the place. If I’m ill I’m in there longer, but I really don’t want to read when my bowels are cramping up. For those that read in the bathroom, what’s the deal? Do you go in there before you really need to, stay in longer than you really have to, are you inefficient poopers, are you waiting for … other things … like **Cervaise** mentions above? Are you hiding from your families? Do you _prefer_ reading in the bathroom? I grew up in family of 7 with 1 bathroom, so hanging out in the bathroom was not really encouraged. But somehow my father’s “morning constitutional” has endured, which includes a crossword puzzle and sometimes a cup of coffe. I don’t understand why anyone would want to drink a cup of coffee where they’re taking a dump. My father’s also been known to put onion cream cheese on a blueberry bagel, so there’s no accounting for his taste buds. 😉 \*\* ralph124c\*\*, if you’d prefer I start another thread on this, just let me know. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/35 "2003-03-25T20:32:28Z")
how about a minor hijack of this thread–we seem to be divided into 2 groups-- the “readers” and the “no-readers”. Personally, I 'm all with Porcupine–there are much more comfortable places in my house where I can have a good read. And, if I want to have a good sh-t, then I head to the bathroom–but I leave my book on the couch. so my question is: how long do you all spend in the “reading room”? And, of all the urges that cause you to go there, is the need to read one of them? And ,yes,GMRyujin-in answer to your worry-yes, I do “stare at the walls”–but only for about 90 seconds or so.It ain’t so tough. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/36 "2003-03-25T21:35:18Z")
12 short stories, two novels, the straight dope, Sci Fi wire, CNN, Wired, solitaire, tetris, blockout… …I’ve got an Ipaq! I could watch movies in there too, but that might gimmie away. ---
**Author:** ![Lookout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b3f665/32.png) [@Lookout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lookout)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/37 "2003-03-25T22:31:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*I don’t understand people who _don’t_ read in the bathroom. Do you just stare at the wall? \*\* I’m a quick pooper. Total time spent is less than 2 minutes. I respect my bathrooms for showers, shaving and number one and two, but then I’m outta there. I don’t like smelling my crap.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/38 "2003-03-25T22:31:54Z")
> [@](#): > > **(chappachula)** how long do you all spend in the “reading room”? Ten to thirty minutes, generally. When my legs start going to sleep, that’s a pretty good signal. You’re not a hard-core bathroom reader until you seriously consider getting broadband by the can. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/39 "2003-03-25T22:58:35Z")
I am definitly in the camp of the bathroom readers here. However, my roommate hates the habit, so I’ve heard both sides. Anyways, in our bathroom we have: _The Straight Dope More of the Straight Dope Return of the Straight Dope The Staight Dope Tells All Triumph of the Straight Dope_ So there! ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-stock-your-bathroom-reading-shelf-with/163813/40 "2003-03-26T06:22:38Z")
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