My preferred method of reading is to escape from life's problems and minutae. If things are going well, and I want to read, I start an argument with the wife (which I lose every time by the way).
Preferred method of reading?
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I like to hold a book best of all. I like to breathe a book. Sometime will just open it to the middle and smell it. The Binding.
This is something I do not with a library book!
Err on the side of caution, there.
This is something I do not with a library book!
Err on the side of caution, there.
Reading an original hardcover publication with blurbs, dustjacket, retail price, synopsis and author photo is like heaven. As a book nerd and bibliophile, I find a hardcover hard to beat. Regular paperbacks for traveling and standing in line at the DMV. Trades are fun to collect but just as a reserve. E-books have their advantages but it makes my head hurt after too long.
Probably in this order: Kindle, paperback, audio, hardback. I do most of my reading on the Kindle, but still purchase books I have to own- mostly King books or others I find in the $1 section of the used bookstore and like enough not to sell/give back to them. But I do like the audio books for times when I can't read- primarily when I'm driving. I tend to treasure my hardbacks and don't want to risk damaging them by actually reading them...
Yes, library books are nasty. As a librarian my coworkers knew I went through Clorox wipes like my life depended on it. Fun game: guess the mystery stains...and hairs, gag. Sorry...I've found cigarette ashes, dead roaches, used kleenex, and other oddities. NN is right.
Well, at least people are reading..... Oh my never anything like that! Once found money and a couple of love notes that apparently were never delivered.
Stains yea. Turn page carefully avert eyes and try not to think about it. Been awhile since I have gotten library books, thou. Things could be different now.
Funny - I never have had that problem with used books from a goodwill or thrift shop.
Yeah, I'm very selective when buying used books. Thankfully, not many people return books in these conditions. But some are oblivious. I'm like...really?! Yes, I guess a better person would avert their eyes, lol.
I wrote a letter to the editor about cigarette ashes in books. I opened a book one time and couldn't believe how many ashes were in it! My letter started out with concern. I told the name of the book and the week I checked it out and said that whomever had the book before me needed to get to the doctor as soon as possible because, as much ash as I found in the book was proof that this person had to have a tumor the size of Billy Barty just lurking in their body. It got published too.
I am thinking about Frannie reading the diary with the chocolate thumbprint.
I'm most comfortable with ratty old paperbacks that have been read a hundred times.
Pulled a brand new paperback edition of The Tommyknockers -- obviously never been read -- off a library shelf a while back.
It just seemed wrong somehow.
Pulled a brand new paperback edition of The Tommyknockers -- obviously never been read -- off a library shelf a while back.
It just seemed wrong somehow.
More and more I've become an audiobooks person. It's a completely different experience than reading but it's made me better at listening, it really forces you to focus because it's moving along whether you're ready or not!
I got a kindle for Christmas a few years ago, I wasn't sold on the whole Ebook thing but I ended up loving it. I stuck with that for a long while. Until I came back to reading SK. Idk why but I have to have the 'real' book in my hands when I read his stuff. Aside from that, I don't care if it's hb or pb.
I can't do audio books though, I've tried but I find my mind wandering.
I can't do audio books though, I've tried but I find my mind wandering.
Err...you may wanna stay away from my books, Dana Jean. The better the book, the more I smoke, and let the ashes fall where they may. And thanks to a certain Yankee bogeyman, I've probably got the lungs of a freshly cremated Humphrey Bogart.
Brown stains in old books give me the heebie jeebies. Could be chocolate, could be blood (shudder!) or could be...(choke!) dookie.
Oh boy, you're singing my song!!! I love sniffing my books. I have a ratty copy of The Great And Secret Show (Clive Barker) that I refuse to put out to pasture due to the deliciously pungent odor of old pages and binding. When I pass away, there'll likely be a few pounds of paper dust in my lungs. And it'll all be from that book.
Found this. True or not, I do not know.
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I love "reading" Mr. King's audiobooks. He gets the best readers--Will Patton being a favorite. But after I've listened I like to look at the work--the language, the verbs, the description and the commas. I don't read as much as when I was a friendless geek girl who thought an exciting way to spend Saturday night at a bookstore.
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I bought a Sony Reader PRS-T1 a few years ago and rarely buy the pulped vege matter ones, unless it’s a rare 15th – 17th century didactic (yet even these can now be found for free download.)
There is a certain romance to reading a paper book, but (for me) it’s only viable when nesting in a favourite chair, with a bottle of Lochan Ora or Casa Noble Añejo Single Barrel and tumbler—no ice—nearby.
A heavy hardback tome from the likes of King, Martin, Gurnall orCarson don’t fit easily into a rucksack without getting damaged, and aren’t as easy to manage on a long train ride, or a general practitioner’s waiting room, as the electronic version.
There is a certain romance to reading a paper book, but (for me) it’s only viable when nesting in a favourite chair, with a bottle of Lochan Ora or Casa Noble Añejo Single Barrel and tumbler—no ice—nearby.
A heavy hardback tome from the likes of King, Martin, Gurnall orCarson don’t fit easily into a rucksack without getting damaged, and aren’t as easy to manage on a long train ride, or a general practitioner’s waiting room, as the electronic version.
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I removed your links. People can pm you for that information or can go find it themselves.
Hardback,with the dustjacket removed as it tends to flap around,late at night in bed..almost time to start,in fact..
