to find books and magazines by the toilet unnecessary and unhygienic

[SunsetMojito]

I have even seen a magazine rack placed helpfully beside one!
Boak!
and how long to you actually need to spend in there that you cannot manage without reading?

I don't have any in my loos, but years ago my Mum compiled the best of FMH magazines from my brother's collection. People used to go into the loo and not reappear for hours ..all appalling funny stories !

I thought more people brought their mobile phones to the loo instead?

I remember reading on MN about a poster whose DS couldn't shit for days cos he'd lost his mobile

yabu, whats the problem

Surely we don't need Magazines now that we can mumsnet on the loo!

If you don't like them you don't have to touch them They can't infect you just by being there.

I love reading Take A Break on the loo.

I wonder if it was my house Sunset? Please feel free to not bother using my facilities again for fear you may boak

You're right, an ipad is much more hygenic

actually, if you suffer from constipation, reading on the loo is very beneficial! If there's no actual reading matter I have been known to read the blumpf on toiletries bottles!

When I lived with my parents there would often been 4 books propped up against the wall of the loo. DH and I usually have a couple of copies of the Economist and bits of the Saturday Guardian in ours.

As long as nobody wipes their arse on the Take A Break and puts it back on the rack, there's no problem.

Even two minutes in the loo is boring, Magazines and books (and the paper) are a must.

Yabu. Never come to my house, we have bookshelves in the loo and a stack of newspapers

My mum always hated us reading on the loo. I never understood why!

I agree with ThalianotFailure. I sometimes have a had time pooing (and sometimes emptying all of my bladder too), so reading on the loo helps.

If there's no books I read the back of the bleach/cleaning spray/shampoo/wipes etc.

YABVU.
(wonders where the last book I left by the loo wandered off to)

We have a stack of what we call "loo books" that are easy to read a little bit of. Things like Bunny Suicides, Garfield etc.

I dont see that they are unhygienic, as long as no one is actually wiping their bums with the pages!

its not the reading on the loo thats the problem. No objection to the i-pad that you take in and then take out again with you. It's the piles of paper that have sat there for months being handled by any fucker who uses that toilet, while they are pooing.

I read my book on the loo......its the quietest place.....

You read then wash your hands after the loo anyway.

I don't think yabu, but mainly because its always foodie magazines DH leaves in there and I can't stand the thought of then baking or cooking from something that has spent days in the loo and so it spoils my fun. Although I am often unreasonably precious about germs / hand washing etc so I defer to the masses on this.

at the moment i have the boden catalogue next to the loo

I keep my proper history books in the loo as it is the only place I can read in a concentrated and uninterrupted way

and ds1 keeps his magazines in there, and dh likes to collect daft sign books and cartoon books

but please, feel free never to visit my house and then you won't have to take a shit in my library

I should add that my loo library started in my third full term pg when I had the most awful constipation/evacuation cycle, which meant that whatever stage I was in, every 5th day or so was spent almost entirely on the loo! You soon learn to appreciate books, especially as this was pre-smart phones and wireless internet!

I keep an Ikea catalogue in the loo!