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The last secret has me curious.

Probably around 50/50

I probably read way more fanfic that regular fiction. I used to read a lot more original fiction when I was younger. But next year I am making it a goal to read 15 books. Just got to find something to be interested in.

This year I've read biographies almost exclusively. Haven't read a single fanfic.

Changes every so often. I have phases where I read almost exclusively fanfic and then I stop reading fic for a while(usually when I get burnt out on them or lose interest in the fandoms). Also depends on my RL stress levels - I can't really get into long original fiction when I'm stressed out - that's when I prefer reading fanfic.

I read almost 99% published fiction and non-fiction. I rarely read fanfiction.

95% published, 5% fanfic, or maybe less fanfic.

I write almost exclusively fanfic though - just now and then an original. Not that they've been published of course.

I'd like to read more fanfic but for some reason I tend to stick with really short work (reading and writing.)

On vacation it's about 80% regular fiction; during semester, though, it's swings right to the opposite ratio in favour of fanfic because I simply haven't the mental energy to start or find new material and instead either re-read well-loved regular fiction (which is rare), or predominatly turn to fic because I appreciate the ease of finding just about exactly what I want for the mood I'm in and the time I have to read it in.

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70/30 in favour of fanfic, probably. It's a bit hard to tell, since I can count the books I read, but I never do for fanfic.

I read more published fiction, I probably read 70% published-lit, but I go through moods where I want some nice and easy comfort-reading and fanfic is good for that.

Waaaay more fiction and non-fiction than fanfic. I probably read more comics than fanfics.

This past year I read at least 50 book-length books, compared to maybe a dozen and a half one-shot length fanfics.

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I'm not really doing fanfic outside of a few kink stories now and then.

Probably 90% fanfic, mainly because I read a shit ton of fanfic. I would read three or four novel-length fics a week and love every minute of it, if there was enough fanfic for my OTP to support my habit.

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Lately all the ~real books~ I've been reading are nonfiction, so it's like 99% fanfic for me right now.

100% regular fiction these days, to be honest - but with a caveat. I read a lot of "original fics" online on fanfic archives, so they are basically just fanfics but original.

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As of Monday, I will have three blessedly student- and family-free weeks! Of course, I do love my family dearly, and I enjoy teaching and my students are, by and large, a lovely group of people. BUT OMG YAY PEACE AND QUIET AND TIME TO DO RESEARCH!!! <3 I am fully intending to spend most of the holidays in bubble baths, and/or lounging about in the altogether with an improving book or two.

How are those of you lucky enough to have time off going to spend it?