Recently I've been reading so much on an iPad that it feels odd to read a paper book and not be able to touch words to look them up.
A few sources of digital reading material:
Extensive runs of many magazines can be browsed and read online via Google Books, https://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en
The Internet Archive, https://archive.org/, has launched a National Emergency Library
and of course there's Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/
― Brad C., Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
Almost exclusively using an app offered by my libraries (have accounts with 3 different cities, had planned to collect more as souvenirs but oh well to all that). Mostly ravenous for horror right now, kind of like wanting ice cream when it's cold outside.
I used to have too many books. I'd get shopping carts full from thrift stores, and the Salvation Army used to sell as many as you could fit in a bag for a dollar. Sooo many books. Bookshelves along all the walls, in front of the windows, stacked on top of bookshelves, books layered 2 or 3 deep. I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor to make room for more bookshelves. A freestanding one fell over on me while I was sleeping once. I've calmed down a little since then. Honed it all down to 1 tall bookshelf of essential reference/rarities/sentimental valuables, which is mostly neglected in favor of dumb shit on my phone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― cat, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
I ordered a used copy of Michael Hoffman's Approximately Nowhere online a couple weeks ago. It arrived this week. Slowly working backwards through his oeuvre.
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
vast library, amazon, waterstones delivery, sc1hub and l1bg3n
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 23 April 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Massive backlog of unread stuff lying around bedroom including a handfull of library books.A lot from charity shops over the years.
Got a couple of new titles from Book depositary. One in sewing machines cos I thought I had screwed mine up. Also got the Mike Barnes prog book cos it was something I wanted to read. Just reading the Yes chapter.Picking up a paper for the review section on Fri and Saturday. & whatever rock monthlies I can still get. Uncut, viva le rock, wire etc.Just got a place to get 2000ad in since the main place I got it is closed for the duration.& listening to podcasts for most of the day.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 April 2020 06:14 (three years ago) link
forgot I just managed to score a copy of Motorbooty #8 the one with the Melvin Van peebles feature. have wanted one of those for the last couple of decades but hadn't really looked for it.Think a previous copy got lost in a load of stuff when I was moving over from Dublin in '98. Met MVP himself a while before taht as he did a talk in a Dublin literary festival
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 April 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
I have far more books than I will probably ever get through in my lifetime - even here in my apartment. And I am a slow reader. So my shelves are plenty.
But it is true that the books I have might not be quite the ones I want to read. And I struggled badly with reading for a while during this crisis.
One disadvantage is that I don't have much 'classic fiction' - Hardy, for instance - which I would really quite like to read. For that I may eventually need to venture out and order something from a bookseller.
I wouldn't order from Amazon, unless using the 'marketplace' to contact a small bookseller counts; would prefer to go direct to the seller anyway.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 April 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
yeah I saw there wasa meme going around saying that most of the sellers on Amazon had their own sites. Which I think i'd been looking into before that.I think Book Depositary may just be a branch of Amazon so i think I probably need to watch what I'm buying from there too.
bookfinder.com can be useful think it checks most databases
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 April 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
(bee - ok dot see see) is helpful
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 April 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
I don't understand that post!
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
ebook source, like.I think I prefer the actual physical paper though.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
xpost
bee hyphen oh kay dot see see
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
or: change all the letters to the letters that follow them in the alphabet:
a-nj.bb
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link