I have thousands of books on my E-reader. Wife reads about 4 books a week, me just one sometimes 2.
When I was farming vegetables, I would listen to audio books about 7 hours a day.
Listening to a book is much slower than reading, but you can do it without slowing down in the field. I listened to Michener's Hawai and it took a full month at 5-8 hours a day. I also listen to books while on long drives like St. Francisville to the Fla. Keys. The average audio book is about 12-14 hours.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand
Once upon a time, I was writing my own book. Didn't go very far, as even I could see it was far too derivative of Star Trek. Then I found a copy of Mutineer's Moon, and he did SO much better with the story line that I quit thinking about reviving my effort at it. I have two or three paper copies, and both sequels, plus the omnibus edition. All in both paper & digital forms. When I'm too tired and/or sick to do anything else, and can't sleep, I'll pull that series up on the phone or tablet, and read it. Once upon a time, it was RAH's Glory Road...
Never stopped, and have given many away!
West of Beaver Dick's Ferry.
I started reading voraciously at about 7 years old. Read Mark Twains' books and was spellbound. My father was born and raised in Hannibal Missouri, and on one of our family visits we were allowed to visit the Samuel Clemons home. Seeing the house where the author lived was really cool.
Wife and I have owned three used bookstores, but it got to where you couldn't make enough money to keep the doors open. The e-readers have killed the book business. We donated tens of thousands of books to local library's. We went through our printed book collections last year and the wife donated most of hers (over 1000), and I donated several hundred of mine. I kept one large storage bin of books that are special to me. Not counting gun related tech manuals.
To me there is something special about the feel, smell, and just having a physical book in hand. Don't like e-readers and never will. Got one for Christmas a few years ago and it is still in the box it came in.
P.S. One of my worst pet peeves is people who dog ear the pages instead of using a bookmark. Grrr.
NRA Life 1992
My avatar is almost a dead ringer for my little buddy Chico. Six pounds of mean that thought he was a Pit Bull. Miss that little guy.
Just read this thread from post #1 to the end. Enlightening to see all the different preferences in book types and subjects. I started reading books at about 9 or 10 years old.
The small town I grew up in had a small public library and the only thing I remember is reading thru the entire Hardy Boys series. I know there were many others over the next 5-6 years. A drivers license put reading on hold except what was required for school and college. Didn't do much reading for about the first 10-15 years of marriage, kids and job.
Didn't really do much more while the kids were in college. Couldn't afford both books and tuition. After they both graduated and I expanded my gun hobby, I bought a lot of hobby type books, Both gun related and woodworking and tool related. So much in some cases that actually engaging in both those endeavors suffered.
I've come to realize that now that I'm in my elder years(81) and alone(my wife passed last spring) that many of these books may end up in a landfill. I've tried to sell a few but I seem to value them more than others do. It is enlightening to go to the online book sites and see the prices that those dealers put on some of the out of print books. I hope they have better luck selling them than I have had.
I've decided to pass them on to the sons and grandsons, especially the gun related books. I've got most of the books that John Taffin has written over the past ten years. I especially like the most recent published by Wolfe. Very good quality
My fiction reading is pretty much restricted to the Kindle. I've got a couple of gun books on one of the Kindles such as The Custom Revolver by Hamilton Bowen. I've also got the hardback copy.
Unlike several have mentioned, I enjoy using the Kindle. I have several hundred that my wife and I have purchased and probably more than that borrowed and returned.
John
W.TN
been reading books my whole life, at 75, still reading them.
Barry
Both my wife an I read alot of books.
At one point my library was over 10,000 printed books... I got tired of dusting them and had read them all way to many times... when kindle ebooks came out I started gravitating to a format that was far more portable... ended up donating most of the physical books to a local library. I pretty much made p their scifi department(prior to my donation it was maybe 100 books...)
Now with physical arm limitations my phone is a lot lighter and easier to read on!
I donated some books that were duplicates of some in my collection to a public library: A friend of mine found them in the dumpster behind said library and brought them to me, knowing I liked old books, but not being aware I had donated these. Since then, I have not repeated that error.
Rights, and Privileges, are not synonymous. We have the Right to Bear Arms. As soon as the Government mandates firearm registration, and permiting, then that Right becomes a Privilege, and may be taken away at our Master's discretion.
Highly recommend 1632 by Eric Flint. Currently have just over 3900 books on Amazon, about 7500 my computer, and a few on my phone. Have quite a few print but they are too hard to keep handy and at hand.
Spell check doesn't work in Chrome, so if something is spelled wrong, it's just a typo that I missed.
My old books, my old friends that have absorbed so much of my time over the years, will go to my local library when I'm gone.
I hope they bring others the knowledge and entertainment that they have brought to me.
Gun control is not about guns.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
I serve on the County Library Board, volunteer at the local library, and read a lot. I had some good books on hunting and shooting I took to a gun show a while back. I priced them at what Amazon was selling used for. I took 40 books priced $5 each or 4 for $16. I sold 8.
Montana law says books over 5 years old and less than one checkout in the past year are to be disposed of unless the Librarian signs them to be OK. 95% of our donations go to our book sale, paper backs are 10 cents, hardbacks 25 cents.
There is very little market for used books. More books are being sold and read now than any time in history. I have trouble wrapping my mind around those two facts.
[The Montana Gianni] Front sight and squeeze
I found very few books that I would spend more than a day reading. I enjoy reading short magazine articles about hunting and fishing.
“You should tell someone what you know. There should be a history, so that men can learn from it.
He smiled. “Men do not learn from history. Each generation believes itself brighter than the last, each believes it can survive the mistakes of the older ones. Each discovers each old thing and they throw up their hands and say ‘See! Look what I have found! Look upon what I know!’ And each believes it is something new.
Louis L’Amour
The Californios
Started with James Lee Burke, then Vince Flynn, Lee Child, C J Box, David Baldacci.
I started reading a bit late In life plus I am a slow reader but remember most everything I read.
I have discovered many "out of copyright" books here
Some incredible literature and history.
Much of it a window on the time it was written.
https://gutenberg.org/
Go now and pour yourself a hot one...
im currently working my way through "the flytiers manual" good thing there are lots of pictures. if only I could get my fingers to handle fishing line like years gone by.
every trip to Ollies is an adventure picking through the discounted books
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |