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Reader Profile (Click to see questions)
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Gender:
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Age:
18 - 24
25 - 39
40 - 49
50 - 65
65+
General Reading Interests (click to see questions)
What type of reading list are you requesting:
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What type of formats do you like:
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Preferred book length:
100 - 300 pages
300 - 500 pages
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Fiction Preferences (click to see questions)
Preferred fiction types (click all that apply):
Adventure
African-American
Bestsellers/Popular Fiction
Christian/Inspirational
Classics
Espionage
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humor
International
Legal Thrillers
Literary Fiction
Military/Technothrillers
Mystery/Suspense
Psychological Suspense
Romances
Science Fiction
Short Story Anthologies
Westerns
Womens' Lives
Other (specify in the Other Information box at the end of this form)
Fiction I've disliked:
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Fiction I've liked:
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Describe your sex, violence, language threshold:
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How would you describe your threshold for tolerating the potential appearance of sex, violence and/or graphic language in the books we recommend?
Nonfiction Preferences (click to see questions)
Preferred Nonfiction types (click all that apply):
Adventure/Survival/Exploration/Disaster
Animals/Nature
Biography/Autobiography
Contemporary Issues
History
Humor
Literary Nonfiction
Memoirs
Popular Culture/Lifestyle/Entertainment
Popular Science
Psychology/Self-improvement
Religion
Sports
Travel Narratives
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Nonfiction I've liked:
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Nonfiction I've disliked:
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Non-preferred nonfiction:
Are there subjects you prefer NOT to read about (e.g., politics, animal cruelty, crime, etc.)?
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Other Information:
Please use this area to tell us anything else about yourself and you personal reading interests that have not been covered in the questions above.
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