What are you reading ? 2022

I've recently finished Brighton Rock by Graham Greene - a truly great novel!

 

If you like Graham Greene try "The Comedians".

 

Since the pandemic for Covid-19 closed the library in town I've been reading e-books on my Kindle. Although I've had it for 7 or 8 years I hadn't much used it. But I dusted it off, charged it back up & started to look for free books online. Since then I must have read over a 100 books! Most days I read a couple of hours 1 at night & 1 in the mornings.

My favourites are Sci-fi.

Getting e-books on Kindle has really opened my eyes to what is out there! I've depended on the library books for years, though for many years I was a member of a book sharing website where I was able to read many, many Star Trek books! It was the only way I could get them as many of the tiles couldn't be found in the UK.

Now I am reading them on my mobile as well! In the mornings, as I generally wake up an hour or two before my wife, I lay in bed reading books on the phone - instead of the news as I used to! My Kindle doesn't have backlight so I read on my phone

One thing I've never been able to stand is the lumping together of Sci-fi & Fantasy - they are two totally different types of books! The library - at least the one in town - is even worse because they also add in witchcraft as well! (Can't remember the name of them at the moment)

 

My first Kindle had a keyboard and I never had any problems with it. But after it's demise two years ago I now have a touch screen one and don't like it. I've had to re-set it a few times and it needs re-charging more often, even though I don't use the light. Downloads take longer too.

I had problems obtaining books of my chosen genre at libraries so Amazon/Kindle is ideal with it's extensive range. I find it's hopeless for non fiction which often needs the reader to refer to other parts of a book and takes a while to re-locate each time. I buy non fiction in actual book form instead.

Not my usual choice, but currently reading Transported - A Pioneers Story written by Terry Spring. Set in the 19th century, a young man is transported to the colonies (New South Wales, Australia) having been found guilty of theft. There he eventually regains his freedom and rebuilds his life.

 

I joined Kindle Unlimited. It costs me £7.99 a month but this gives me access to a whole range of free books. It is like a library. You can have 10 books on loan at a time and as you read them you return them so you can download others. I have two Kindles on my account so I read one and my good lady the other.
I was also given a DVD with about 2,000 books on it and I can upload books from that.
I use this software calibre - E-book management to download between disc and Kindles.

 

@Balc despite your library closing during lockdown their ebook library was still available.. It's the only way I have read books for the past 5 years now, in fact the thought of handling books now makes me shudder especially if, as you often hear, people read them in the most unhygienic places!!!


Even wiping them with a sanitizer wouldn't wash with me...yuk no way!



I also get my Emagazines via my library.....use to buy gardening magazines, including Gardeners World but now just download them for free, you keep them in your account for a month...but can also renew them and get any of the backdated ones too. Brill.

 

@Upsydaisy I did try to join our library's e-book site but it never worked for me. At the time I tried I had plenty of paper books & could go to the library whenever but during the lockdown I completely forgot all about it! Perhaps I will try again.

 

Oh do @Balc , I'm never without one and can read it on either of my 2 tablets or (if I'm out and about) my phone too....I would be lost without a book.
I tend to do a bit of knitting during the horrid winter months and have no hands free so I then get audio books out.

 

Fascinating @shiney ! Are the buildings as ornate outside?