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A deep thought will be soon forthcoming, but until then...

One of my favorite places to read is while sitting on the toilet doing my thing. Bathroom literature is unique in that it, for me, needs to take my mind off of my bodily functions, and so it should be more than just purely light reading such as the entertainment magazines.

At the same time, it's not something I can get too engrossed in, due to the fact that I usually have a limited amount of time I spend on the restroom, so no novels or other literary works. I want information that I can quickly pick up by reading, so something non-fiction is best.

As for the specific subject matter, I for one don't like to read Christian books in the bathroom. I don't like to read about my God while being surrounded by pungent odors -- it just doesn't evoke the right mood. =)

But other than that, I read almost everything, from textbooks (Math and CS theory books are good for me, because they get me thinking about them, and not what my body is doing... =) ) to dictionaries (relieve yourself while at the same time learning a few new words of Chinese or Japanese) to news magazines such as The Economist.

Currently, I've been reading a a commentary on the Linux source code -- little more than a listing of the core source files, and commentary. It's an perfect example of something that fits the criteria: something I can learn from quickly, but which I can take in in bite-sized chunks of 10 minutes or less, and yet is (somewhat) relevant for me, and also, a book that I can read in a non-linear fashion, for oftentimes I forget where I left off in my last restroom excursion.

So... anyone want to share their restroom reading picks? =)