Books You Can't Shut Up About

[Ravenshire]

This is just a suggestion, but maybe some of you should spend less time compiling lists and more time reading.

A bad year means I only get through 2 books/week. In a good year I'll top 200 titles between ebooks and audio books. In a great year I'll best a book a day.

I read voraciously and will read almost anything.

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I'm really trying hard NOT to create a wishlist of books that's too long to accomplish, and I tend to reread books I love multiple times as a money-saving mechanism. :p

I re-read a lot too. Been through Harry Potter many times, "The Lord of the Rings" once a year for 20 years or so. Still, I can't find enough books...

My amazon wishlist represents mostly the books that I know my library doesn't carry (with some "gotta remember to read this" books in there, too) and while I like the good deals on books from amazon (you can't get much better than $2 for recent-release non-fiction) I have issues with the fact that you can't always loan them to people without also physically loaning them your ereader, and I haven't seen a good way to resell ebooks which is a necessity because I have limited space and don't always want to keep every single book I read.

My online shopping list also is filled with titles I can't get from the local libraries, any of the eight library consortiums I'm a member of so far (two more in northern Co. and two or three more to the south I haven't signed up with... yet).

If you ever see me sitting still in any kind of waiting room, bus terminal, airport, etc... without a book in my hand (or headphones on), please check me for heartbeat and respiration.

Technically, you cannot (legally) loan any e-book unless it is explicitly permitted in the license, and you cannot re-sell them. Your only choices are keep them or delete them. This is one of the greatest bullshit gimmicks to come from the DMCA, the loss of right of first purchase. It infuriates me to no end that I cannot give away a book that I fucking paid for, and (considering the production cost) likely paid a premium for (seriously, 7.99-13.99 for digital versions with almost no production costs), especially when it's a book that I couldn't finish because I didn't like it but I know someone who probably would. It's not like they would even have to jeopardize their precious DRM. All they would have to do is add blu-tooth to the readers and allow transferring the file and the license to another reader. But, that gets in the way of the publisher's... er... I mean the author's (yeah, right) bottom line.

As to storing them, get yourself a 32Gig memory card or thumb drive from Newegg.com for less than $20.00 and just try to fill it with e-books. I'll bet you never do.

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That's about how far into the bible as I get before I hurl it across the room

I don't usually hurl the buy-bull, but wind up hurling on it.