What's Your Source for Reading Material These Days?

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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


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