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Anyone reading printed books?
« on: August 26, 2024, 02:27:26 AM »

I kind of rediscovered reading printed books after more than a decade of "digital only" and I have to say I greatly enjoy it. There is something special about feeling the pages under your fingertips.

In my town they changed former pay phone stations to book-sharing ones by adding shelves. People can dispose whatever books they don't need and others can grab what they want for free. It works fairly well and what I like most about it is the discovery aspect of it. Grabbing a book just because of the name, cover and short description on the back - without reading any reviews beforehand - and discovering stories / thoughts / ideas.

Like I recently picked John Irving's "The Hotel New Hampshire" from 1981 just because.  And started reading it on a train trip.  I started to like it after page 40 or so and now that I'm almost through the book, I'm glad that I picked it up!

Somebody else reading printed books?
Any booksharing in your town going on?
If you read printed books, what are you reading?
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2024, 02:37:35 AM »

Yes, but mostly non-fiction. Would love to be able to pick up a good book and just read, but right now I don't really have the calm to do so.
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2024, 01:59:54 PM »

I've been reading a non fiction book called Never Home Alone, about all the insect and fungal and bacterial ecosystems that exist within our homes.
Scarier than any horror novels you've ever read.  ;D
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2024, 12:05:11 AM »

yes but rarely novels, mostly history books
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2024, 04:25:46 AM »

Somebody else reading printed books?
Yes.

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Any booksharing in your town going on?
Yes, but I don't use it.

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If you read printed books, what are you reading?

Everything. Fiction, non-fiction, technical, arts. I'm buying new books too. I hate reading on electronic devices.
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2024, 01:25:11 PM »

I read all of the time!

Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Wiliam L. Shirer
when I was nine years old. Took me forever to actually read
and enjoy any non-fiction. But now I can’t stop.

Anyone read any Thomas Pynchon? (Gravity’s Rainbow or V.?)
Or maybe Tom Robbins? (Still Life With Woodpecker or Jitterbug Perfume?)
And of course… all of Kurt Vonnegut’s titles.

How about Philip K. Dick? “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”?

Off to pick up a copy of “Earth to Moon” by Moon Zappa today.

Have only read a few books via an iPad - and then only
because I couldn’t find particular titles in print.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoNGRVeC7Y
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2024, 02:14:34 PM »

I was 17 when I read Gravity's Rainbow and 18 when I read Infinite Jest. You could say they had some kind of pernicious influence on my development.
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2024, 10:42:54 PM »


How about Philip K. Dick? “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”?

Read many of his visionary books. "Do Androids..." and "A Scanner Darkly" among my faves.
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Re: Anyone reading printed books?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2024, 10:11:14 AM »

Cixin Liu's Three Body Trilogy (in translation): Without going too much into spoilers, I'll say these are some of the most original hard science fiction books I've read in a long time, combining the horrors of the Cultural Revolution with the Fermi Paradox....

Stephen Baxter's Manifold books and other speculative near- and far- future science fiction. The best British science fiction writer since Arthur C. Clarke. Except for his historical fiction which I find a bit tedious.

Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space: speculative hard science fiction but with a peculiar west country, space operatic flair, and some gross body horrors thrown in.
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