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.

  • SomeAmateurEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    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.

    • Universal Monk@lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.appOPEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      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!