I had a similar childhood, always with the nose in the books (no BD or comics for some reason), except we couldn’t afford to buy books so it was all library. O

I had a similar childhood, always with the nose in the books (no BD or comics for some reason), except we couldn’t afford to buy books so it was all library. Only four books were allowed at a time so I would read my four SF books and my sister her four horse books and then we’d swap. Our parents needed to tell us to “stop ready and go outside and play”. For a while there was no library but you could put a request in at the train station and then pick up your books at the station the next day (and return your read ones). This was less than satisfactory as there was no way to browse. We had the same problem with our kiddo (reading in bed, reading in the bath, reading outside) but when some sort of punishment was required it was easy to declare a brief Lesenverbot. It’s much easier today as we can afford to buy as many books as we desire.