Lisa commented on…

BBC's "The Big Read - Books 101-200"

Lisa
Melbourne

Consuming books — 3 years ago

I wish this site recorded that we have read the books rather than ‘consumed’ them….


Comments

dt123
Canberra

Hear, hear

The definition of consume in the Macquarie Dictionary (Australian) is (1) to destroy or expend by use; use up (2) to eat or drink up; devour (3) to destroy as by decomposition or burning and so on. Apart from devour in a metaphorical sense, none of these definitions remotely apply to reading or listening to music for that matter. Okay, just call me a pedant.

hydra
London

All Consuming....

This site has a ‘sister’ site called All Consuming. It covers EVERYTHING… books, films, music, food, and loads of other things, thus I’m sure the makers of the list chose ‘consuming’ because it covered everything…. read, listened to, ate, know of, etc…. I think it covers everything quite well.