Do you listen to music while you read?

[Blessing O 2]

I don't listen to music while I read, it distracts me.

[sayoniwrites]

No. I prefer silence. I find music too distracting.

[Preye I]

I tried it but I just can't. I always sing when I am listening to music and reading and singing don't go together.

[Samuel Mamo]

Yes, I do especially, when it is a novel.

[Ashley_Meneely]

Absolutely not. I like silence or I can be distracted. Although, if I'm deeply entranced in the book, all noise disappears for me anyway.

[POETIC PACIFIC]

Yes, I do have a practice of listening to music whilst reading or working. It's not about actually listening to the musical words, but it is just about stoping other noises from disturbing me. I have rather a strange kind of technique, where when there is a lot of noises around the place where I read, I usually got an earpiece and blast it off with music to in fact prevent other unwanted sounds from my ears.

[Erh_milee]

I listen to music when I read. I love doing that because it creates a really comfortable environment.

[Nyavaloesther]

Not always, I feel like it is distracting. I don't know if it is just me. But I can definitely read while listening to classical instrumental music, or rainfall sound

[Matlhodi Nozwayo]

If its just instrumentals or ambient music then yes. But anything that has words and all this intensity is definitely going to be distracting.

[stylesreview]

No. I find it too distracting. I'll be jamming to it and not reading. I could even start dancing and doing a mini karaoke rather than reading. Haha.

[Kanika Tandon]

nope. I like to concentrate on my reading. music has it's own place and time just not while I am reading .

[Christabel Egbeama]

It feels like a crime when I don't listen to music while I read. It helps with the imagination of scenes.

[Kayla Archer]

The only time I listen to music when I read is when I’m trying to drown things out (usually my children when they don’t have school that day!). I actually walk on my treadmill while I read because it keeps me awake. Once I sit and relax with a book, I’m out! I have two elementary daughters and a toddler boy, so my energy gets tapped out fast. The treadmill has been my secret since college.

[Ashley Price 3]

Sometimes I do listen to music if where I'm reading is loud. The music helps me to focus even songs with words or guitar instrumental music.

[Comfort Ansah]

When reading, I like background noise but it must not be anything I like otherwise I get distracted.