(February 12, 2015 at 10:53 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Hopefully, there will soon be a "Spotify for ebooks" type of service where you can pay a manageable fee each month to read as much as you want from a huge selection.
Umm... Doesn't Amazon have a service like this already? At least, I keep getting ads for it. It sounds like a paid library service where you can "check out" any title Amazon carries* so you don't keep paying full price for ebooks** you only read once.
* Not sure if there are restrictions on title you can "check out"
** Not sure if this extends to Audible.com titles, too
That's my understanding of the service, anyway.
(February 13, 2015 at 1:27 am)TRJF Wrote: I am trying very hard to average one book a week this year. If we call yesterday the end of week 6, I'm already 2 behind :-( but, I didn't do much reading in early January; I'm confident I can catch up.
I didn't start reading for pleasure until about my sophomore year in college. Up until then, I could count on one hand the books I read that weren't assigned in school. Still, I doubt there's been a year in which I've read more than 15 books.
That's going to change.
Nice goal
I can't put time restrictions on myself like that or it takes the pleasure away from reading and makes it feel like work.
Some books I fly through, some books take me a looooong time to read. Sense and Sensibility took me months to finish. I read it architecture school as my "going to bed" book. I would get through a couple paragraphs and fall asleep, then the next night I'd have to reread what I read the night before because I wouldn't remember it, make another couple paragraphs' headway and fall asleep again... Contrast that with when I read The Greatest Show on Earth which I would stay up for hours reading, I'd take it to work to read over lunch, I'd read it while I was out to dinner, when I was a passenger in someone else's car, etc. and I finished in a couple days.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
