I feel like, I enjoy reading. but when I buy a book, they often be consumed in a day or two. I want to restart buying books. but nowadays, I want to maximize everything. so, will this book good enough. is this book useful. something like that. I don't feel like buying book for the sake of reading anymore. I miss the day where I made annotation in the margin, reread a novel again and again, because the internet is more costly. I want to love books once again. I want to buy books again, enjoying the content as I reread it again and again. since I bought ebooks, it just feel different. carrying heavy book in your bag. traveling and reading a book in a public transport. it's just... I miss those days. I want a respite. not checking the next series in NU/FFn/other fiction sites, switching for the next book for my next dopamine hits. it is... I feel like, I want to read more, more, more. it's like endless eating every day, but without me savoring the taste properly. I want to break free from internet. so, how do you control yours? do you keep satisfying your needs for reading?
I am in a neverending cycle of reading (sometime amateurish) books online physical and ebooks are too costly and uninteresting to me
Same. Before I got into reading online I bought a complete set of Percy Jackson novels because I heard great things about them from my friends but I never got to read them and years later I still haven't even ripped the plastic they're in.
yes but rarely these day~ book is relatively costly, not only fiction but also non fic one so this cat tend to quite selective when.buying one~ lucky you have one, dunno about online library tho~
Well it might sound scummy, But I borrow books from online library (That is all I can say). I mean if I were to purchase every book I have read, The cost will be in thousands. Side note- I have excluded webnovels from the count.
Why not buy some Fantasy books that have actually been nice to read like "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss ... The content is worth highlighting for a re-read... These new fantasy books are almost on par with the webnovels in some aspects. I will suggest you new ones once you are done reading the two I mentioned earlier.
the problem is... my city library is pretty bad. my national library is far away. and my uni library has a policy of not allowing book borrowing for non academia. this is similar to me, in LOTR. I don't have motivation to open one, even though I read HP, percy jackson, etc voraciously before. library genesis? during the old days, I agree. but it's not like I'm not able to do that nowadays. hmm... I am sick of webnovels though. I want to read some non-fiction.
I used to buy books all the time, now I only buy books from Tamora Pierce. Still waiting for continuation of the Numair Chronicles.
Yes, I used to buy a lot of regular books. But I’ve started collecting manga and manwha now, so unless it’s a collector’s edition of a book I own, I don’t buy them.
I used to buy books. Like super discounted ones from bookstores & libraries... and some manga. But I don’t have the space and now that I use a text to speech reader, digital format is now what I prefer. If I had space and funds, then I’d just buy manga as I am more likely to reread and appreciate the art.
Yeah there is something magical about crack a book’s spine or actually holding it. For me it’s too costly and take a lot of space. Also because western books are so boring and manga is expensive than the hospital bills here. And it’s a few thousand just to get an ambulance, not even the surgery or staying overnight. So yeah no physical books for me.
Patrick Rothfuss books that I recommended are not webnovels... Btw non-fiction is too boring a category of books... Reading about someone's life, self-help, psychology, geography, history, facts and figures or maybe 'how to become a millionaire'; They are all dull and drab. How will you find the motivation to actually read through them ? ... hehe
I'd rather bring my kindle if I'm going on a trip, Only buy books if you have the place for it, as a collector it's one of my nightmares Where to place and how to organise. I do not read 70% of the books I buy since I read everything online and buy it for ... uhh so that it looks nice sitting on my shelf and isn't damaged.. for Collector reasons
I totally disagree non fiction is really fun to read, Aren't you curious about things ? It has a different vibe then fiction because you read it for different reasons, I like to read non fiction because it's interesting, history and science always baffle me at how complex and simple things are. A biography is just a more realistic modern fiction novel I know people that love and mostly read non fiction Dull and drab aren't words that I would use to qualify them
I usually read online and occasionally borrow from friends or read hand-me-downs from my cousins. I feel like buying is a bit too money-wasting. 600 rupees for a 100-page book? Yeah, no.