Really well bound books are a pleasure.

So are audiobooks, while smoking a cigar looking at the water.

Used to read at least one book a week. But in my old age, my eyes now require cheaters which makes it a PITA for night time in bed reading. Bottom line, my consumption has severely diminished.

I used to read books a lot but haven’t the time now. I’ve still kept my collection of chess books I had in high school thinking one of these days I can go back to that hobby in my old age.

It’s not that I don’t read since there’s Google for online articles. I suppose youtube fills a void also.

I remember fondly devouring science fiction novels and short stories, swords and sorcery novels, the Destroyer series. I forget the name of the series where the guy drives across the country in a station wagon outfitted with heavy armaments like missiles. If it were written today, a Hummer or Range Rover would probably be used.

As a kid, I used to go with Dad-- who was not a white-collar academic type by any stretch-- on his weekly library trips. He'd generally grab 6-10 books at a time (usually off the "New Arrivals" shelf) and return them the next week. By the time I was nine, I was knocking down a book or two a week myself, so it must have taken.

Nowadays, most of my books are on Kindle but I still have a few hundred in the abridged (since our last move) collection. Now that I'm semi-retired I will be catching up on a bunch.

Side note: Having read and a retained a little about a lot of things-- fiction, non-fiction, technical, history-- has saved my bacon professionally a bunch of times.