What book are you reading at the moment ?

I got:

Barack Obama’s A Promised Land
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Audible)
 
Nike7 said:
@newby_investor try Audible, your first book is free. The narrator is always a human. (For now)
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I'm aware of audible, I'm saving my first free book for when I have found something that I'd rather listen to than read.

Nike7 said:
also what kind of savage writes in their books
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I think you spelled "genius" wrong.

Nike7 said:
I love how easy it is to take notes and highlight what you want on Kindle, without ruining the book.
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The word you're looking for is "enhancing", not "ruining"!

I don't like Kindle much anymore, though I used it for years. I still do if there's something that I absolutely *have* to read which isn't available in hardcopy. For me a book is a tool for thinking, and reading on a screen just doesn't seem to have the same depth associated with it. Dedicated Kindles are a decent compromise, but they still have shortcomings. With physical books, when I'm reading one and I come across an idea that I want to think about, I dog-ear the page and then when I'm finished the book I come back to the dog-eared pages, mark them up, write notes, cross-reference other books, etc.
It also helps that I can see my other physical books on the shelf which are arranged roughly by topic, and I can have several books open on the table at once with bookmarks or dog-eared pages which help me find important ideas in a tactile way. It just helps my thinking.

I understand the instinct to keep the books pristine, my sister is like that and I tease her about it. The spines of her books all look as though they've never actually been opened or read. My thinking is somewhat different though, I paid good money for those books and I want to get the most possible value out of them. Since they belong to me, I'm going to use them as best fits my thinking process.

I probably wouldn't do this with novels, and that's more or less the only kind of book that I still mostly read on Kindle though I haven't really read much fiction for the last couple of years.
 
newby_investor said:
I'm aware of audible, I'm saving my first free book for when I have found something that I'd rather listen to than read.


I think you spelled "genius" wrong.


The word you're looking for is "enhancing", not "ruining"!

I don't like Kindle much anymore, though I used it for years. I still do if there's something that I absolutely *have* to read which isn't available in hardcopy. For me a book is a tool for thinking, and reading on a screen just doesn't seem to have the same depth associated with it. Dedicated Kindles are a decent compromise, but they still have shortcomings. With physical books, when I'm reading one and I come across an idea that I want to think about, I dog-ear the page and then when I'm finished the book I come back to the dog-eared pages, mark them up, write notes, cross-reference other books, etc.
It also helps that I can see my other physical books on the shelf which are arranged roughly by topic, and I can have several books open on the table at once with bookmarks or dog-eared pages which help me find important ideas in a tactile way. It just helps my thinking.

I understand the instinct to keep the books pristine, my sister is like that and I tease her about it. The spines of her books all look as though they've never actually been opened or read. My thinking is somewhat different though, I paid good money for those books and I want to get the most possible value out of them. Since they belong to me, I'm going to use them as best fits my thinking process.

I probably wouldn't do this with novels, and that's more or less the only kind of book that I still mostly read on Kindle though I haven't really read much fiction for the last couple of years.
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Yeah I am terrible with my books. I scribble notes in all of them. I do NOT do the same with my graphic novels. Those puppies get treated with the cleanest hands.
 
Datura said:
Yeah I am terrible with my books. I scribble notes in all of them. I do NOT do the same with my graphic novels. Those puppies get treated with the cleanest hands.
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Aesthetic appeal is a lot of the point of a graphic novel though so that totally makes sense.
 
I get it, I was really just teasing. I will write (in pencil) in my varsity textbooks too.

To aid with retention and easy reference though I’ve started writing wiki style articles when I read non-fiction. Active recall and all that. I find it takes a lot of text to make an idea click, but once it’s in my head I just need a few words to recall it.
 
newby_investor said:
I'm aware of audible, I'm saving my first free book for when I have found something that I'd rather listen to than read.


I think you spelled "genius" wrong.


The word you're looking for is "enhancing", not "ruining"!

I don't like Kindle much anymore, though I used it for years. I still do if there's something that I absolutely *have* to read which isn't available in hardcopy. For me a book is a tool for thinking, and reading on a screen just doesn't seem to have the same depth associated with it. Dedicated Kindles are a decent compromise, but they still have shortcomings. With physical books, when I'm reading one and I come across an idea that I want to think about, I dog-ear the page and then when I'm finished the book I come back to the dog-eared pages, mark them up, write notes, cross-reference other books, etc.
It also helps that I can see my other physical books on the shelf which are arranged roughly by topic, and I can have several books open on the table at once with bookmarks or dog-eared pages which help me find important ideas in a tactile way. It just helps my thinking.

I understand the instinct to keep the books pristine, my sister is like that and I tease her about it. The spines of her books all look as though they've never actually been opened or read. My thinking is somewhat different though, I paid good money for those books and I want to get the most possible value out of them. Since they belong to me, I'm going to use them as best fits my thinking process.

I probably wouldn't do this with novels, and that's more or less the only kind of book that I still mostly read on Kindle though I haven't really read much fiction for the last couple of years.
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I've been trying to get more comfortable with cracked spines and annotations, but it is a journey. I want my collection to look like a library and not a bookstore, so it should be easy. Yet, sometimes I still catch myself peeking through a 45 degree gap into a partially opened book or writing notes on post-its. Well, post-it notes are actually working out nicely.

I also like the idea of Kindle notes and highlights, but feel like I'm having more of a conversation with the book if I'm adding index tabs to a physical book. For some reason I rarely revisit my notes on Kindle, while I'm much more likely to check out my tabbed pages in the future.
 
PrimeSteak said:
s-pdpxl.file
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And, what's it say?
 
nulkoel said:
For some reason I rarely revisit my notes on Kindle, while I'm much more likely to check out my tabbed pages in the future.
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So much this. I've mostly given up highlighting and making notes on kindle, just because it's a chore to get back to. With a book it's so much easier to pick up and flick through again. For anything I need to make notes I get a PDF version of the book and read on pc.
 
nulkoel said:
I've been trying to get more comfortable with cracked spines and annotations, but it is a journey. I want my collection to look like a library and not a bookstore, so it should be easy. Yet, sometimes I still catch myself peeking through a 45 degree gap into a partially opened book or writing notes on post-its. Well, post-it notes are actually working out nicely.
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Post-its have the advantage of more space to write. Marginalia can be challenging if you want to write more than a word or two.

nulkoel said:
For some reason I rarely revisit my notes on Kindle, while I'm much more likely to check out my tabbed pages in the future.
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saor said:
So much this. I've mostly given up highlighting and making notes on kindle, just because it's a chore to get back to. With a book it's so much easier to pick up and flick through again. For anything I need to make notes I get a PDF version of the book and read on pc.
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There is an "export to html" option on Kindle somewhere. I have used it in the past. It made it much more usable for me. Not perfect, but much better than working through the app or the actual Kindle device.
 
Ninja'd said:
I get my 40k fix from lore channels on YT. Always wanted to get into 40K novels. It's just that there's a moerse klomp of them and with the HH series it's all fluffing it up with extra exposition that has a foregone conclusion if you're into the lore already.
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HH series is like 50 books. While how we got to 40K is no secret lore-wise, the HH series is an interesting look at how things developed along the way (very quickly, actually) 10K years earlier, with the fall of Horus and the Traitor legions.

Things like the Isstvan Massacre are well-known and regularly referred to on lore channels, but reading about it from the boots-on-the-ground perspectives of the loyalist Space Marines is interesting. I found myself rooting for a few of them, even though I already knew what was going to happen thanks to 40K.

The first two books actually do an amazing job of humanising Horus (and most Space Marines) - I actually felt sorry for him as he slowly started losing the plot after being corrupted by Erebus
 
Military scifi, familiar plot (so far), hopefully it spins up now toward the end.

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Avbob se stoep said:
Is it not written for children or can older folks also give it a go?
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It’s good enough that you can appreciate it as an adult, but the first 3 or so books read a lot like children’s books. From then on, say books 4-7, the writing matures a lot and I’d say it’s definitely a series adults can read and enjoy, even better than a lot of supposedly adult fiction out there.

If you’re shy about being seen reading children’s books, there are adult edition covers you can buy :p
 
My mother was shy about reading Harry Potter, until her boss walked into her office unannounced before she could hide the book in her drawer.

Boss lady was super excited and visited her every day at lunchtime to check on her progress :laugh:
 
electronic books were a life saver for me. I can't hold paper especially if it rubs on my fingers i get the same feeling as if someone scratches nails on a chalkboard...
 
I think Harry Potter is good literature. It matures as the series goes along like @Nike7 says. I think I was around 12 when it started? I forget now. I read the last book in my early 20s. It fit quite well.
 
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