NavyGuy - There is a great thread over at the Lair about books the group likes. I’ve picKed up some great tips over there.

I've been getting busier as I get older. More responsibilities, more side-jobs. I used to read 2-3 books simultaneously. Now, I typically read when I'm on travel for work. I can get through a lot of pages on a plane or sitting on my ass at an airport.

I still think it is very important. We read to our kids every night from actual books.

That's pretty good. Reading to your children. That will impart deep and lasting benefits. If I could do things over again I would want to have done more of it.

I've always been a voracious reader, but even with bifocals I was having trouble reading books. So about ten years ago I switched to a Kindle so I could enlarge the print.

A few years ago we cut the cord & cancelled our satellite tv. Now between my wife & I we spend more on Kindle books than we did for Dish network.

I love reading old fashioned printed books. I just can't get into audio books, there's something about being able to ponder a word or sentence that you can't do with audio.

Another one here that loves reading. As I got older, that slowed down with fading eyesight and having adequate lighting. That all changed with my Kindle Paper light.

I love to read
It is one of my favorite hobbies even over working out. I love sitting outside soaking in the sun while I read the latest Mac Bolan. It is one of the reasons I work 3rd shift during the summer.

My bought me a kindle as I was walking out the door to Afghanistan. I love it and I have thousands of books at my disposal through kindle unlimited.

I still like a good printed book. I just picked up 3 at the library yesterday.

A few weeks ago I was at my son and daughter in laws place. She had just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing". She handed it to me and told me it was good, so I took it home. I was off work the next Friday and as usual had a list of shit that needed to get done that day. While I was having my coffee that morning I picked up that book. Next stop was the recliner and I basically spent the entire day reading that book to the end. I used to do that all the time when I was younger. At this point in my life I just don't. Pissed away an entire day off reading. What a guilty pleasure that was. However, the story was good and I got some well deserved time off my feet.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:

As I got older, that slowed down with fading eyesight and having adequate lighting

That sounds like me, before my cataracts were removed. Now, at 85, my eyesight is better than it was fifty years ago.

I'll read the ingredients on a package if nothing else is available.

I almost always buy electronic books, now. Two reasons: 1) I can't carry all the paper books I want to read with me; 2) I can blow the font up to make it easier to read.

When I was young, I loved reading, then there was a lapse of many years. In the '90s I started to read gain and now I read 2-4 books a week. I'm very slow, some of the books are short novels, others long and may take a week or more. For another couple of weeks, I'll sit out in the evening, smoke a cigar and read for 1 1/2 hours. After the time change, I'll sit out afternoons, still have the cigar.

I had a kindle 10 years ago, but it's just not as good (IMO) as a paper book. It is a great piece of technology, but it's not for me. Which is fine, of course.

I read about 50 so far this year. I have had nightmares of being in a waiting room with no book to read. . .

A major hobby is collecting books at thrift stores and flea markets (I NEVER pay full price for books).

I read sporadically. Sometimes, I'll go months with one book after another and even reading two at a time. Then, I'll go months without reading anything. I have more books- print and electronic- than I can possibly read. In the past few years, I've purchased few physical books. Most things these days take electronic form. In certain ways, ebooks are beneficial to my reading habits, and in certain ways, they're detrimental.

I have a spree reading habit. If i pick one i will likely read 5 or 6 related books, then pick another subject and repeat. After a dozen lr so, my urge will hibernate for a long time.

Bought the GoT book collection and started reading but eventually switched to the audiobooks.
Must say i hat ive read almost exclusively in the nglish since school and bookstores are a vanishing business down here. Books in spanish are hard to find, books in english a lot harder. What you find is what you get.
Usually try my luck at the yearly publishing exhibition.

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I had to go audio because I just don't have the time to only read. Unfortunately, that limits the intellectual value if the books I listen to. If I am multi-tasking and listening to an in depth analysis of some topic, I miss things. I have to listen to the same book or chapters multiple times. Before I had a family and my obligations and goals became so prioritized, I read books and newspapers rather than watching television. Now that Rush is gone I don't listen to radio much either. I listen to audio books.

Even though my wife and I are old now, we still enjoy our time in bed together...reading books before we fall asleep!

I like reading along with the audiobook

I read every day. I collect books on Africa from the 1850's to the end of the colonial period about 1963. I also enjoy and collect books on the Rhodesian bush war.

Classic science fiction and I'm a huge Hemingway buff.

I only read physical books. My first and only experience checking out an e-book left me with a bad taste for them.

My wife far out reads me. she has a kindle, listens to audio books while she does farm chores and reads tons of physical books.

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Originally posted by SigSentry:
I like reading along with the audiobook

I did that one time with Burroughs' Naked Lunch, audiobook and e-book. There are audiobooks of this novel on youtube, but apparently they took down the one I found, which was narrated by Burroughs himself. It was kinda fun.

I am a total biblio-whore. You do not want to get me on eBay looking at old or nicer books. I should take out a rider on my homeowner's insurance for my books.