I would say close to 50 books a year, I have a kindle and it’s made it easier to not lug a book around.
I’d say 50-100 pages per day. I read 1 non fiction and 1 fiction book at a time. I keep 1 book at the office, 1 at home, and alternate fiction and non fiction between the 2 locations.
The fiction is generally either classic literature (recently Russian lit), or something that’s been recommended to me. Non-fiction is generally philosophy. Currently reading Kavalier and Clay at home, and a book about Godel, Escher, and Bach at work.
I just downloaded the kindle app on my phone yesterday, so I’m reading a 3rd book on there (Galapagos by Vonnegut). I’m going to see how reading on my phone goes. I feel like I’ll probably end up with an actual kindle, since they’re so reasonably priced, and I can save some cash on physical books. I read Anthem on my phone yesterday as sort of a test-run for phone-reading. I’d read it a few times before, so I knew about how long it should take. The screen bothered me a little bit, so that’s further evidence that the newsprint-style kindle could be of use.
Get a Kindle Paperwhite! Cheap and awesome. Battery lasts forever.
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
Get a Kindle Paperwhite! Cheap and awesome. Battery lasts forever.[/quote]
I know almost nothing about kindles. What’s the difference between the paperwhite and other kindles?
Paperwhite is a bit smaller, very simple touch screen, and has a gentle background light so you can read in the dark.
I would say somewhere between 40-45 per year. I have a lot of free time in college
Probably 200-300 books per year. Nothing much else to do around here. It is costing me a fortune, though.
[quote]seekonk wrote:
Probably 200-300 books per year. Nothing much else to do around here. It is costing me a fortune, though. [/quote]
Goosebumps don’t count, bro…
Just kidding. That’s insane to me.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
Get a Kindle Paperwhite! Cheap and awesome. Battery lasts forever.[/quote]
I know almost nothing about kindles. What’s the difference between the paperwhite and other kindles?[/quote]
I’ve had both the paperwhite and now the fire. The paperwhite was stolen out of my gf’s bag when we were at the beach so she got me the fire. The paperwhite is devoted solely to reading and is great for that purpose. The Fire is more like an ipad than jsut a reader so it’s ok but the battery doesn’t last even remotely as long. I probably can’t get through a 400 page book without having to charge it.
Derek, how do you have that much time to read 3/week?
I typically read maybe 1-2/month. I just finished up the “Hunger Games” series not too long ago and I started reading the “Dexter” series but I heard too many people said it sucked so I bailed. I’m currently reading “American Gods”. I also purchased a hardcover of “An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth” which I’ve been delaying reading for a reason I don’t quite know- I was super excited to get it.
The hardest part for me is to figure out what to read. I feel like when I was younger you would walk in the library and there would be new release books and best seller books everywhere so I just read those. Now, with libraries being non-existent, I tend to just see what’s popular and read that. I have a bunch of paper classics I bought off Barnes & Noble forever ago but never got around to reading them.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]ZJStrope wrote:
Get a Kindle Paperwhite! Cheap and awesome. Battery lasts forever.[/quote]
I know almost nothing about kindles. What’s the difference between the paperwhite and other kindles?[/quote]
I’ve had both the paperwhite and now the fire. The paperwhite was stolen out of my gf’s bag when we were at the beach so she got me the fire. The paperwhite is devoted solely to reading and is great for that purpose. The Fire is more like an ipad than jsut a reader so it’s ok but the battery doesn’t last even remotely as long. I probably can’t get through a 400 page book without having to charge it.
Derek, how do you have that much time to read 3/week?
I typically read maybe 1-2/month. I just finished up the “Hunger Games” series not too long ago and I started reading the “Dexter” series but I heard too many people said it sucked so I bailed. I’m currently reading “American Gods”. I also purchased a hardcover of “An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth” which I’ve been delaying reading for a reason I don’t quite know- I was super excited to get it.
The hardest part for me is to figure out what to read. I feel like when I was younger you would walk in the library and there would be new release books and best seller books everywhere so I just read those. Now, with libraries being non-existent, I tend to just see what’s popular and read that. I have a bunch of paper classics I bought off Barnes & Noble forever ago but never got around to reading them.[/quote]
I read fast, always have.
Right now I have my daughter and 3 year old autistic grandson living with me. So the TV is always on Disney movies, so a couple of hours a night I read.
[quote]seekonk wrote:
Probably 200-300 books per year. Nothing much else to do around here. It is costing me a fortune, though. [/quote]
What?! Where exactly is “here”?
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
We had way to many books at the house and she wanted them all gone. [/quote]
Liar. There is no such thing.
So I’m definitely interested in getting a e-reader. Anyone have suggestions? I know the Kindle Paperwhite was mentioned earlier. Looks really solid. I’m tempted to buy one this second but I’d prefer to get a couple opinions/suggestions on others to look into. If there are better ones.
I’m kind of bummed I got a decent collection of hard copy books that, since I already bought them as hard copies, won’t be able to convert them to use on an e-reader but oh well. It’s 2014.
Does anyone know if textbooks (like school textbooks) work well with e-readers? Like, can you actually get them on the Kindle/any e-reader? The only way I can justify dropping $80-100+ is if I can get my textbooks on it. I don’t have a lot of time to read recreationally lately with class so that’ll be my primary reason for getting a e-reader for now.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
I’d say 50-100 pages per day. I read 1 non fiction and 1 fiction book at a time. I keep 1 book at the office, 1 at home, and alternate fiction and non fiction between the 2 locations.
The fiction is generally either classic literature (recently Russian lit), or something that’s been recommended to me. Non-fiction is generally philosophy. Currently reading Kavalier and Clay at home, and a book about Godel, Escher, and Bach at work.
I just downloaded the kindle app on my phone yesterday, so I’m reading a 3rd book on there (Galapagos by Vonnegut). I’m going to see how reading on my phone goes. I feel like I’ll probably end up with an actual kindle, since they’re so reasonably priced, and I can save some cash on physical books. I read Anthem on my phone yesterday as sort of a test-run for phone-reading. I’d read it a few times before, so I knew about how long it should take. The screen bothered me a little bit, so that’s further evidence that the newsprint-style kindle could be of use.[/quote]
It seems like we like a lot of the same stuff. I’ve read most of Tolstoy’s (but never got past page 200 of War & Peace) and Dostoevsky’s stuff.
I read Kavalier and Clay and Galapagos this year also.
And FighinIrish I do that too, where I have 3 or 4 books going. I don’t always feel like reading a 700+ page novel for however long it takes without wanting to read something different so I’ll stick a bookmark with a couple of sentences reminding what’s going on at that point in the book.
[quote]seekonk wrote:
Probably 200-300 books per year. Nothing much else to do around here. It is costing me a fortune, though. [/quote]
You’re not inflating your numbers like some do on T Nation are you?
[quote]staystrong wrote:
So I’m definitely interested in getting a e-reader. Anyone have suggestions? I know the Kindle Paperwhite was mentioned earlier. Looks really solid. I’m tempted to buy one this second but I’d prefer to get a couple opinions/suggestions on others to look into. If there are better ones.
I’m kind of bummed I got a decent collection of hard copy books that, since I already bought them as hard copies, won’t be able to convert them to use on an e-reader but oh well. It’s 2014.
Does anyone know if textbooks (like school textbooks) work well with e-readers? Like, can you actually get them on the Kindle/any e-reader? The only way I can justify dropping $80-100+ is if I can get my textbooks on it. I don’t have a lot of time to read recreationally lately with class so that’ll be my primary reason for getting a e-reader for now.[/quote]
I own a Kindle Touch and a Kindle Fire. The Touch is the one I take to the gym to read on the treadmill and it’s battery life is incredible charge it maybe once a month. The Fire is more of my tablet but I still enjoy reading on it especially magazines and other things with graphics that don’t come through on the Touch.
Personally, I wouldn’t consider buying textbooks for my e-reader because I love to mark up textbooks with notes and I also resell them. If the cost difference for an electronic version versus hard copy was enormous then I might, possibly, consider it. I can’t resell the e-books which is a major downside in my opinion.
Own a Kindle Fire. Still only read three or four books a year. I read horribly slow. It’s a chore, barely enjoyable no matter how good the book is.
(I can vouch that Derek can put down books in a hurry. In high school he’d read one in the morning, and tell me about it at lunch. Then he’d read another in the afternoon, and tell me about it in football practice.)
[quote]staystrong wrote:
So I’m definitely interested in getting a e-reader. Anyone have suggestions? I know the Kindle Paperwhite was mentioned earlier. Looks really solid. I’m tempted to buy one this second but I’d prefer to get a couple opinions/suggestions on others to look into. If there are better ones.
I’m kind of bummed I got a decent collection of hard copy books that, since I already bought them as hard copies, won’t be able to convert them to use on an e-reader but oh well. It’s 2014.
Does anyone know if textbooks (like school textbooks) work well with e-readers? Like, can you actually get them on the Kindle/any e-reader? The only way I can justify dropping $80-100+ is if I can get my textbooks on it. I don’t have a lot of time to read recreationally lately with class so that’ll be my primary reason for getting a e-reader for now.[/quote]
Amazon sell heaps of text books, often for much less than the physical version as well. But your best option is to go to Amazon with a list of text books you want and see what they have for sale, if its available in Kindle and how much cheaper it will be.
As for quality, it depends on what sort of text book you are after. If you are talking something with lots of diagrams, pictures, fancy text such as mathematical symbols then you may find that the Kindle is not the best reading option. Those sorts of books are much better displayed on a tablet with a Kindle App. However a tablet suffers from screen glare in many locations.
In my case I use both Kindle and the iPad/KindleApp combination and then pick and choose between them as the need takes me.
[quote]doogie wrote:
Own a Kindle Fire. Still only read three or four books a year. I read horribly slow. It’s a chore, barely enjoyable no matter how good the book is.
(I can vouch that Derek can put down books in a hurry. In high school he’d read one in the morning, and tell me about it at lunch. Then he’d read another in the afternoon, and tell me about it in football practice.)
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Yea I have issues.
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
[quote]staystrong wrote:
So I’m definitely interested in getting a e-reader. Anyone have suggestions? I know the Kindle Paperwhite was mentioned earlier. Looks really solid. I’m tempted to buy one this second but I’d prefer to get a couple opinions/suggestions on others to look into. If there are better ones.
I’m kind of bummed I got a decent collection of hard copy books that, since I already bought them as hard copies, won’t be able to convert them to use on an e-reader but oh well. It’s 2014.
Does anyone know if textbooks (like school textbooks) work well with e-readers? Like, can you actually get them on the Kindle/any e-reader? The only way I can justify dropping $80-100+ is if I can get my textbooks on it. I don’t have a lot of time to read recreationally lately with class so that’ll be my primary reason for getting a e-reader for now.[/quote]
I own a Kindle Touch and a Kindle Fire. The Touch is the one I take to the gym to read on the treadmill and it’s battery life is incredible charge it maybe once a month. The Fire is more of my tablet but I still enjoy reading on it especially magazines and other things with graphics that don’t come through on the Touch.
Personally, I wouldn’t consider buying textbooks for my e-reader because I love to mark up textbooks with notes and I also resell them. If the cost difference for an electronic version versus hard copy was enormous then I might, possibly, consider it. I can’t resell the e-books which is a major downside in my opinion.[/quote]
I agree with all of this. I had a chemistry book that I read on my old Kindle 2G and it was not suited for that medium.
I’m trying to get into comics a bit so the Fire is good for that as well. Walking Dead has really helped with that aspect although I imagine as it’s black and white it would be just fine on a paperwhite.