Haven’t found the proper time to read and enjoy a book in years.

Remember when vising the US i spent a lot of time at bookstores picking up loads of books, once carried home 1 1/2 my own weight in a duffel bag pretending is was light so i wouldn’t be charged for the extra weight. Those were the days.

Could and would read technical books as if they were novels. Cover to cover.

A few years ago i turned briefly to audiobooks. Maybe for a couple of years.

Now i have a bunch of them in a waiting list that goes nowhere. Have no books on display, they crawled into boxes and vanished from my memory. Can’t tell what i own anymore.

Age has taken its toll on my sight and i keep trying to focus on a small screen. No pleasure there, just effort.

Is it just me or this is the way of the World?

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That’s sad, amigo. No, I still enjoy reading, albeit usually for 30 - 60 minutes after getting into bed.

Same here, typically 30 to 60min after getting into bed. Fiction of some type is good to distract the mind from normal worries before trying to sleep.


Picked up a Kindle Paperwhite when on sale recently and I'm liking it quite a bit. Many science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and tech books are available free in e-book form, so it's nice to have a few dozen loaded onto the kindle.

I faded away from reading for pleasure a number of years ago, but came back to it with gusto. I read nightly to go to sleep, with topics covering fiction (military, espionage, and westerns mainly), history, true crime, Christian nonfiction, and occasionally politics. I also read to learn for work, and I'm continually reading Twitter for current events or SIGforum for pleasure.

I know some people who have never read for learning or pleasure, and it reminds me of the saying someone here posted in their signature: "The man who does not read has no appreciable advantage over the man who can not read."

While there are so many other options now for pleasure or self-improvement, there are vast written treasures out there for anyone who seeks them out. I'll never read all of the books on my shelves or on my Kindle.

I went to Audio Books and haven't looked back. I can double task while listening.

I'm still old school in that I have the WSJ paper delivered 6 days a week and read it with coffee in the morning but have moved on from cracking a book open daily. Now Audio books.

You should see my wife's library.

I read every night for 30-45 minutes. I received a kindle several years ago and immediately hated it, after 50 plus years of having a book in hand and turning pages, I couldn’t get used to it. I finally have embraced it and it’s convenience.

You should see my library. I'm running out of space!

I enjoy reading books. Most are on my tablet.

My wife reads a lot, paper and electronic. She works in a bookstore and proofreads many books before they are placed on the shelf.

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I read for pleasure all the time. Never gets old.

I still read voraciously. The only difference is that I've mostly made the switch from printed books to electronic books and audiobooks.

I like being able to carry around hundreds of books in my back pocket, on my phone, and pop open the Kindle app to get some pages in whenever I've got a little time to kill, like sitting in a waiting room.

I like being able to "read" audiobooks while mowing the yard, driving, hiking, and working out.

And I really like not having to lug around dozens of bankers boxes full of heavy books every time I move.


About the only printed books I buy anymore are higher-end reference books on firearms. (Those usually aren't available in electronic format anyway.)

I’m in the voracious reader camp also.

For me, the habit started early. When I was about 9 or 10 years old, our TV broke and we could not afford a new one for several years. So, I started reading.

Since retiring, I average reading about 50 books a year.

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I read 2 or 3 books a month every month and have for probably 20 years or so.

The only thing I've changed is that now the majority are on my kindle device or my kindle app on my iPhone. I still read a paper one from time to time or old times' sake.

Since I retired last January, I've gotten back into reading and love the distraction....escape. After many paperbacks, I got a Kindle and find it really handy.

I get Kindle books from the library. Popular ones have a wait list, but it goes by fast. I’ve read a lot of books I wouldn’t by for free. I get to keep my highlighted sections and they don’t take up space.

A win all around.

I like to read, always have. Don't have any electronic, all mine are paperback or hardback. I've got one going all the time when I finish one, I will start on another.

I read all day, every day - its my job. That said I still read for pleasure every night between 30 minutes and an hour - it makes the day's problems go away. My library spans about 1800 books and I'm always adding - mostly hard covers

I too love to read, always have. I am out of shelf space.

I love my vintage wood desk, a nice leather chair, a good lamp along with good natural light from my big windows, and FWIW some wood #2 pencils and a nice pen and note pads at my elbow, and a darn good cup of coffee. Very comforting aura and scents, quiet and unbothered, I’m in a content state of mind.
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I do enjoy a good book, but I'm not much into fiction, and lately I've had a hard time finding nonfiction that suits me. I've read all of the Killing Books, and everything by Bill Bryson, The Psychology of Stupidity, No easy Day, SEAL Team Six, Helmet for My Pillow and others. Then I kind of got away from it. Winter coming is a perfect time to revisit. Any suggestions will be welcome. My middle daughter logged 42 books in the last 12 months but she's a fiction junky.