November Group Read: Second Check-In

[kalloway]

Wait, that means November is halfway over. How did that happen? How is everything going? Are you working through your pile/shelf/chosen media?
(It is perfectly fine if the answer is a long silent scream, of course.)

For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you have a preference between hardcover, paperback, ebooks, audiobooks, etc.? Or are books good however they get into your brain?

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

I've now finished Eve Green, The Diet Myth, Consider Phlebas and Do it like a woman. I've DNF'd another book - Roadside Picnic.

This makes me slightly ahead of my plan - I wanted to read or decide that they weren't for me on 10 out of a list of 14 (that went up to 15 when I read something different in the first week). I've now DNF'd 2 and finished 7, so I'm pleased with that position. I'm now part way through The Cranford Chronicles.

I read mostly paperbacks and audiobooks. When travelling on the bus or similar an ebook would be my preference. I am finding that I have to be more selective about the print and the size of a book as I'm increasingly struggling with reading older books with tight spacing of the print or yellowing pages (both induce headaches) or holding heavy books without inducing too much pain in my thumbs and wrists - my current solution to that is to tackle the bigger books in audio and stick with lighter weight books in paperback. This is also because I buy a lot of my reading materials in charity shops and so it's substantially more expensive to buy the ebooks. I'm using less from the library because their books are almost always hardback and therefore too heavy and I've largely exhausted the audio collection of books that interest me - I check in regularly to see if they have anything new.

I guess ultimately I will move to reading more ebooks - but probably need to look at a dedicated reader (my phone is too small to read on for too long and my ipad too heavy to hold - although at least it is easier to prop up than an actual book and the print size is adjustable) but I do still love having a good physical book.

[kalloway]

You're making excellent progress!

I really need to get my kindle app onto a smaller tablet, it (and my small book collection) is currently on my oldest, heaviest tablet and that's not terribly convenient.