In practice, reading in bed was probably less dangerous than public reproach suggested. Of the 29,069 fires recorded in London from 1833 to 1866, only 34 were attributed to reading in bed.

Some books should be read in bed -- Proust, for example, who seems to have spent most of his adult life writing in bed, and Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," which was ...

READING IN BED. Share full article. Dec. 19, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 19, 1903, Section T, Page 10 Buy Reprints.

Reading in bed can make you fall asleep fast. It improves the quality of sleep. According to Sleep Foundation, people who read before bed get less interrupted quality sleep than those who do not read.

Reading in bed is one of my favorite things to do. Do you guys read in bed? What do you usually read? Books? Magazines? The Sunday newspaper? Here's the fabulous memoir I'm reading right now ...

Reading in bed is the best way to get to befriend the book: to get to know its characters, its plot, its style, its beauty and so on intimately and personally, ...

Times Union illustration by Maria M. Stoodley -- For Donna Liquori Biblio files column on reading books in bed all day. For 01/21/07 Sunday Travel Books cover.MS/MARIA M. STOODLEY Reading’s been ...

In practice, reading in bed was probably less dangerous than public reproach suggested. Of the 29,069 fires recorded in London from 1833 to 1866, only 34 were attributed to reading in bed.