Was going to read this article, then realised I'm a man.
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@maniacalmanicmania TL;DR;)
since His Lordship's ADHD diagnosis he's stopped fighting himself and now chiefly audiobooks. His "reading" intake has upped significantly.
I read 23 books so far this year. I'm doing my part.
Read 100 last year and at 25 now this year. Lower now since no longer have a job that let's me read.
But I have listen to 25 so far of audiobooks, which is beating last years count of 24 total.
What have you read if you don't mind telling us.
- Ralph Lister's Skyhold series - Really great fun
- Devoured all of Honor Harrington by David Weber in about 3 months. It was all I could do not to just start them again I wanted more!
- Kevin J Anderson's Hidden Empire series. A really interesting concept of an antagonist alien species. I liked them.
- Julie Kagawa's Talon books - a fun bit of Urban Fantasy about dragons that shape shift into human form and try to live among us. I'm probably not its target demographic (but I like middle school and teen books more than I'm probably meant to), but I'd read these again.
- Currently reading Naomi Novik's Telemere series and I'm 100% hooked. It's more dragons, but this time set in the Napolionic wars.
That Everything is Tuberculosis is on my wishlist. How was it?
I gave it 1 star because it was so damn boring. I don't usually read nonfiction and this book reminded me why. So if you like nonfiction give it a try.
I stopped going to the library to read physical books because I am too lazy to travel. I do read magazines and reseach papers off libgen tho
I read way more ebooks than paper books. The convenience, portability, low light control, and text size manipulation are big wins with ebooks over paper. There's also simply tons of ebooks available from public libraries.
I'm something of an audio book guy, so I can "read" while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.
This is where I've ended up apart from the articles I read and the very very occasional ebook. The only issue I have is sometimes I can't handle the narrators style or voice and so I can't get into the book, even if I really want to.
Also if the book is set in Sydney, Australia maybe hire a local of the country to narrate it Amazon. FFS who wants to listen to a yank narrating an Australian character.
@maniacalmanicmaniaYanks want to hear Australian characters being voiced by Yanks.An Aussie character, voiced by an Aussie, will be heard as British by a Yank.@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Where do you get audiobooks? I've only once tried to listen to an audiobook since giving up on Audible (because Amazon is fucking evil, and somehow Audible manages to add on its own layer of evil on top of that of its parent company), and I ended up with a copy that seemed to just randomly skip large parts of the text. Not an abridged copy, it would just skip paragraphs at a time, with no way to keep up on the story. That was a copy through my library.
Ironically, your local library. If you don't already have a membership, change that.
The ABC listen app also has some audiobooks.
We need to bring back playboy!
I'm reading right now. Ohh, you mean books? I plead the fifth.
The fifth what?
THE FIFTH!!!
A lot of Australians (and this is an Australian Lemmy instance) might not know what you mean.
Fair point. I rarely pay attention to the instance.
Fifth amendment of the US constitution. It's the right to not self-incriminate. i.e. pleading the fifth means you're not going to answer a question or in this context, not provide relevant information.
Element, hopefully.
Multipass.

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