Your favourite books/author

[Ravenshire]

When it comes to reading, I have not read anything in years. Just can't find the time, plus not interested. I did all of my reading in my youth. Maybe one day in my old age I will return to it.

It's off and on irritating to find good ones available. My local library is a dinky little country place so the selection sucks. So, I mostly read from Kindle Unlimited selection or I look for deals on other books. It might sound entitled and stuck up, but I'm not paying $8-$15 for a book I haven't read. I did that quite regularly in my youth and ended up with a bookshelf of expensive books that I never finished because they sucked. Who wants that? *friends come over and give them a tour of my house* "And over here is the shelf full of books that I don't like but won't give away because they're horrible."

I mostly stick with a strategy of not forcing myself to finish books I don't like. An author has to earn my attention. If they haven't done so within the first 50 pages or if they have annoyed me something awful in the first 10-20, I drop it and move on.

Have you looked into Overdrive? If your local library is connected, they'll have thousands of titles, ebooks and mp3 audio books, available electronically. I currently have 13 cards to libraries connected to 11 different consortia and have driven over 60 miles, one way, to get some of them in order to feed my addiction.

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 I mostly read from Kindle Unlimited selection

You know, if you don't mind reading off a screen, there is a huge selection of pirated e-books available. Pirate Bay has more popular things, and Library Genesis more scholarly ones. 

Look, Stephen King has enough money.

Why not simply visit your local library's electronic resources instead of stealing what you want?