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Tomorrow is World Book Day so I thought I'd start a discussion on books.
Do you think people read less now than before? How many books do you read in a year?
I'm still undecided over whether to read the new Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy book. In a way it feels wrong that it's a HHGTTG book without Adams writing it, but I also want to see how well it fits.
I must admit that I don't read half as much as I did, it's very hard to sit down with a book when you have kids. I guess I read stuff on the internet more at the moment but I'd love the chance to get back in to reading properly. I'm a member of Amazon Vine, which lets you test out specific products each month and there are loads of books from new and old authors on there, so it's a good way of getting me to read something. Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise and at other times it's a slog to get through a book.
Do you think people read less now than before? How many books do you read in a year?
I'm still undecided over whether to read the new Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy book. In a way it feels wrong that it's a HHGTTG book without Adams writing it, but I also want to see how well it fits.
I must admit that I don't read half as much as I did, it's very hard to sit down with a book when you have kids. I guess I read stuff on the internet more at the moment but I'd love the chance to get back in to reading properly. I'm a member of Amazon Vine, which lets you test out specific products each month and there are loads of books from new and old authors on there, so it's a good way of getting me to read something. Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise and at other times it's a slog to get through a book.
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Machie wrote:
> Would you have more time to read if you had an ebook reader like
> an iPad or Kindle?
How would this give you more time to read? Because you can't go out and enjoy life with the money you wasted?
> Would you have more time to read if you had an ebook reader like
> an iPad or Kindle?
How would this give you more time to read? Because you can't go out and enjoy life with the money you wasted?
Machie wrote:
> Would you have more time to read if you had an ebook reader like
> an iPad or Kindle? Lets say you won an iPad, would you be tempted
> to buy ebooks for it if they prices were good?
>
> I'm too busy to read books anymore so I just joined audible.com
> (amazon company) and get 2 books a month and have people read
> them for me.
Those e-book readers are sacrilege! I'm so whole-heartedly against them I can't even begin to describe.
They're just so....wrong.
> Would you have more time to read if you had an ebook reader like
> an iPad or Kindle? Lets say you won an iPad, would you be tempted
> to buy ebooks for it if they prices were good?
>
> I'm too busy to read books anymore so I just joined audible.com
> (amazon company) and get 2 books a month and have people read
> them for me.
Those e-book readers are sacrilege! I'm so whole-heartedly against them I can't even begin to describe.
They're just so....wrong.
I have read one book (in which I did online as an e-book) in the last 9 years or so that wasnt forced upon me by studies etc. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. Brilliant book, I am tempted to buy a copy, but the decent copies are hard to come by and extremely expensive. Other than that, I've not really been interested by anything else...
Warhunt wrote:
> It's mainly that I've just been doing more gaming/drinking
> lately.
Amen to that.
> It's mainly that I've just been doing more gaming/drinking
> lately.
Amen to that.
I have often thought of this, but I'm not sure if it's the actual reading that makes me enjoy it so much. When I look back on the moments of my (reasonably short so far) life, there are a few real magical moments.
One of which was sitting in Cancun, on our deck outside our room, with the ocean for a view about 20 metres away, twilight setting, reading Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, sipping on some Mr Daniels and coke.
Now replace that with holding an iPad or listening to someone tell me the story and I don't know.......
It's mainly that I've just been doing more gaming/drinking lately.
One of which was sitting in Cancun, on our deck outside our room, with the ocean for a view about 20 metres away, twilight setting, reading Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, sipping on some Mr Daniels and coke.
Now replace that with holding an iPad or listening to someone tell me the story and I don't know.......
It's mainly that I've just been doing more gaming/drinking lately.
Would you have more time to read if you had an ebook reader like an iPad or Kindle? Lets say you won an iPad, would you be tempted to buy ebooks for it if they prices were good?
I'm too busy to read books anymore so I just joined audible.com (amazon company) and get 2 books a month and have people read them for me.
I'm too busy to read books anymore so I just joined audible.com (amazon company) and get 2 books a month and have people read them for me.
I'm reading..... the text that occasionally comes up during cut scenes on White Knight Chronicles....
On a serious note I just can't seem to get into to any of my books at the moment.
EDIT: Oh pb I got that book for Xmas. Is it the same as Mr. Adams? Not quite no. But it is an ok read, and set in a familiar surrounding. Believe me and you have spoke about this before though, and being able to detract the fact that it's the same series etc. I can quite easily so I enjoyed it.
On a serious note I just can't seem to get into to any of my books at the moment.
EDIT: Oh pb I got that book for Xmas. Is it the same as Mr. Adams? Not quite no. But it is an ok read, and set in a familiar surrounding. Believe me and you have spoke about this before though, and being able to detract the fact that it's the same series etc. I can quite easily so I enjoyed it.
I'm reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein, it's great it is. It's quite weirdly written as Heinlein uses the grammar he think's will be standard English by 2070, but you soon get used to it and don't really notice.
And I've only recently started to get back into reading, but I'm reading about 1 a week and generally try to fit 60 pages in a night.
And I've only recently started to get back into reading, but I'm reading about 1 a week and generally try to fit 60 pages in a night.
I'm reading The Hunt for Red October at the moment :) Full of technical military terms. I still can't believe Tom Clancy was never involved in submarines or the navy, his knowledge and research is fantastic.
On average, I generally read about twenty four books, a year. Sometimes more, sometimes less. All depends on book length really.
I don't blame people for not reading much these days, most of the contemporary books on offer are God-awful. I abhor Dan Brown in particular, mainly because my fifteen year old brother has a better prose style than him. Don't even get me started on books like Twilight; where the author manages to misuse words on every page, and switch tense mid sentence.
I mainly stick to my 20th Century American literature, finished reading Atlas Shrugged yesterday, and I am now reading American Psycho.
I don't blame people for not reading much these days, most of the contemporary books on offer are God-awful. I abhor Dan Brown in particular, mainly because my fifteen year old brother has a better prose style than him. Don't even get me started on books like Twilight; where the author manages to misuse words on every page, and switch tense mid sentence.
I mainly stick to my 20th Century American literature, finished reading Atlas Shrugged yesterday, and I am now reading American Psycho.
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