I’m putting in floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for my living room today. I mostly read e-books on my Kindle, but I have an affection for old paperback pulp books from 60’s and 70’s.
So I go to ebay and buy “lots” of them fairly cheap, not caring about the titles. Sometimes 10 books at a time. Now that I’m retired I plan to read every single one, even the bad ones. I have the equivalent of a small home library of them now.
How many fiction books do you all read? E-book or paperback. But not interesting in audiobooks. I’m curious about physically-read books.
I have read about 2,000 pages on ebook so far this year, which is an average month for me. And I listened to about 20 hours by audiobook. I do count audiobooks, and I listened to less in January than average.
Split is about 75/25 fiction/nonfiction.
I hold zero affection for physical books. Less than zero even. I’ve moved too many times. I have maybe 50lbs of textbooks, high school year books, and reference books for hobbies and that’s it. I would have to be ready to settle into a home for the rest of my life before I could bring myself to buy physical books, and I’m still way too restless for that.
Enjoy your pulp books! I hope they’re good, even if “so bad and cheesy, they’re good”.
Yeah, I am a great lover of e-books, and in fact have been on the e-book train since pda’s. I even had a rocket book. Long before kindle or anything.
But a lot of the strange crap I read isn’t in ebook format. But after I fill my shelves, I’ll probably be done with paper books. I like the look of a good study.
My house is paid off, so I’m not going anywhere. This is my forever home. And if by some chance I became sick or something and had to move, then books would be the least of my problems.
But e-books are def my main reading and in fact, a source of income for me since I write them.