I’m putting in floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for my living room today. I mostly read e-books on my Kindle, but I have an affection for old paperback pulp books from 60’s and 70’s.
So I go to ebay and buy “lots” of them fairly cheap, not caring about the titles. Sometimes 10 books at a time. Now that I’m retired I plan to read every single one, even the bad ones. I have the equivalent of a small home library of them now.
How many fiction books do you all read? E-book or paperback. But not interesting in audiobooks. I’m curious about physically-read books.
My phone has killed my reading habit to the point where I feel shame.
Almost all of the books i read are fictional. Especially dystopian fiction like animal farm, i have no mouth and i must scream, 1984, “We” etc etc.
About 3 a week, I like to read in my sunroom on cloudy days
Love that!
I read about one book per week using the Kindle app on my phone. I find books as I go, so I don’t really have a TBR list.
That’s awesome. One a week! I need to catch up!
Almost entirely fiction, a couple dozen a year. I’m currently rereading a book series with around 20 books, I think.
Not considering audio books in the statistic is a little weird and comes off as attempted gatekeeping… If someone has taken the time to consume book media, it shouldn’t matter if it was listened to or not. My wife is dyslexic and listenes to quite a few audio books a year, but can only finish a couple print books.
Not considering audio books in the statistic is a little weird and comes off as attempted gatekeeping
Nah, not meaning it to look like that. I just like picturing people sitting reading. I listen to audiobooks myself. But I like reading the words. So it was just my personal preference for the post, not a judgement on audiobooks.
I have read about 2,000 pages on ebook so far this year, which is an average month for me. And I listened to about 20 hours by audiobook. I do count audiobooks, and I listened to less in January than average.
Split is about 75/25 fiction/nonfiction.
I hold zero affection for physical books. Less than zero even. I’ve moved too many times. I have maybe 50lbs of textbooks, high school year books, and reference books for hobbies and that’s it. I would have to be ready to settle into a home for the rest of my life before I could bring myself to buy physical books, and I’m still way too restless for that.
Enjoy your pulp books! I hope they’re good, even if “so bad and cheesy, they’re good”.
Yeah, I am a great lover of e-books, and in fact have been on the e-book train since pda’s. I even had a rocket book. Long before kindle or anything.
But a lot of the strange crap I read isn’t in ebook format. But after I fill my shelves, I’ll probably be done with paper books. I like the look of a good study.
My house is paid off, so I’m not going anywhere. This is my forever home. And if by some chance I became sick or something and had to move, then books would be the least of my problems.
But e-books are def my main reading and in fact, a source of income for me since I write them.
I have always read, but it is only in the last decade or so - prompted by the internet, of course - that have thought about counting the books that I do read. Since then, the lowest in a year has been around 6 (an extremely busy year) and the highest around 60. A normal year is probably closer to the latter than the former. I am half way through my 3rd book so far this year.
However, just at the moment I am reading that book - Consider Phlebas - partly as e-book and partly as an audiobook, depending on where I am and what I am doing. Does that count? I am finding myself doing this more often lately.
I have a Kindle, but I will always prefer physical books. Recently, I have mostly been reading nonfiction, but I’m feeling the urge for some fantasy.
I’m a big fan of betterworldbooks.com for used books.
Thanks for that link. I’ll check it out!
Not many these days, barely one a week.
Ebooks are great. Libby is the reason I am able to read as much as I have
In high school I was a big Tom Clancy nerd. I played Rainbow Six games and having a book all about all the gear and training and planning was AWESOME to me
Last year I finally got around to The Hunger Games books. I liked them quite a bit and now I get the hype. When they first released the people who went crazy about Twilight recommended them so I ignored them haha
Now I’m on book two of The Expanse and I really like it. It strikes a nice balance between geeky believable world building and good storytelling.
Funny you mentioned the Hunger Games. I never read them until I took a job at a middle school last year. Every single classroom had rows of them on the bookshelves. So I grabbed a few. They are really good books! I get the hype now!
