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

[glinda]

This week, I have actually been reading! I started a non-fiction book (Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga) from my shelves, I’ve been reading a chapter a day for the last few days - it’s a total doorstop of a book - and really enjoying it.

On my preferred book format, I’m definitely a ‘all books are good books’ person (audio books definitely count) but my preference is always for paperbacks over hardbacks, I find them much easier to read. I like my reading portable and generally find hardbacks too cumbersome to carry around. I’m not a big ebook reader, as I prefer to have a physical copy of something if I’m paying for it, but I do find it the ideal format for reading short stories or novellas that I’m probably only going to read the once, or if I just want to support an upcoming author. (I just realised that this corresponds with my music buying habits, I prefer to buy singles or EPs as digital files, but if I’m buying a whole album I want a physical CD if I possibly can - the digital albums I’ve bought are pretty much all only otherwise available in the UK on import or not at all.)

[kalloway]

Hooray!

I definitely use the kindle app for 1) public domain books and 2) when authors have freebies of book one of a multi-book series and I want to get a feel for their writing. Then if available, I end up buying paperbacks... It doesn't help that my kindle app is on my huge old tablet which probably weighs as much as a doorstop hardcover. ^^;;

[glinda]

Ah yes, I do like the unexpected freebie ebook thing - A good way to trial out a new author! Yeah, I'm using the kindle app on a tablet too, so not the ideal size for portable reading but pretty handy if I'm on-call or on the road for work and space/time are at a premium.