Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

But don't confuse his picture with the cover girl. She was probably the purdy one out of the litter.

The Short & Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler

TL;DR

"On November 14, 1988 ... Ernie died at his home in Moccasin Branch, Florida, of AIDS. He was 48."

It's worth reading (but no recipes).

My wife enjoys the Kindle. She was buying hardcovers for many many years. Then when her bookshelves got too full she would take them to Goodwill. Then she started getting them at the second-hand stores until I got her the Kindle. Now she downloads about half of them for free at the library online. She still buys some books in the Kindle format but not nearly as many. All my Audiobooks are downloaded from the library online. I have an iPod just for audiobooks. I carry an 8-inch tablet that I keep a few movies on for when I have to spend hours sitting in line to get the truck loaded. Then major amounts of music on my phone. It has taught me a lot when it comes to downloading.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

The Short & Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler

TL;DR

"On November 14, 1988 ... Ernie died at his home in Moccasin Branch, Florida, of AIDS. He was 48."

It's worth reading (but no recipes).

I might pick that up. I have read a short bio on him, maybe on Wikipedia or something. It's a shame about his short life. He was still a young man

Originally Posted by Gasman

My wife enjoys the Kindle. She was buying hardcovers for many many years. Then when her bookshelves got too full she would take them to Goodwill. Then she started getting them at the second-hand stores until I got her the Kindle. Now she downloads about half of them for free at the library online. She still buys some books in the Kindle format but not nearly as many. All my Audiobooks are downloaded from the library online. I have an iPod just for audiobooks. I carry an 8-inch tablet that I keep a few movies on for when I have to spend hours sitting in line to get the truck loaded. Then major amounts of music on my phone. It has taught me a lot when it comes to downloading.

If her bookshelves overflow here's what your wife needs Jerry.


I read stuff online but I am still kind of old school I guess. I use Spotify but prefer CDs or preferably vinyl. I read digital stuff but would rather have ink on paper. I just like holding it in my hand.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

I read digital stuff but would rather have ink on paper. I just like holding it in my hand.

I like like the feel of a book too so I got a book style cover for my Kindle.

It looks like leather and opens like a book but sleeps and wakes the kindle as it's opened and closed.

The thing I like about it most, apart from protecting my reader is that when I read it I open the cover and hold like a real book.

Well there's another aspect that is purely psychological and maybe imaginary to it. My son and I were talking about this the other day. The digital media, whether it be word, music, spoken audio, what have you, all have a hint of...... impermanence I guess. For instance, I can listen to as much music on Spotify as I jolly well please for pretty cheap and I can download it to my devices. The millisecond I stop paying them it all vanishes. Of course that's not technically true because I could still get it if I don't mind hearing a bunch of commercials which I do mind.
I still don't think though that this is the heart of it. A book or a record is something you can grasp with your mitts and feel, smell, taste...well maybe not taste but you get what I mean. It is just so...tangible. No matter how good portable and convenient any digital media is I personally just don't get that from it

Three Treaties : Martin Luther


Includes:

To The Christian Nobility Of The German Nation

The Babylonian Captivity Of The Church

The Freedom Of A Christian

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Well there's another aspect that is purely psychological and maybe imaginary to it. My son and I were talking about this the other day. The digital media, whether it be word, music, spoken audio, what have you, all have a hint of...... impermanence I guess. For instance, I can listen to as much music on Spotify as I jolly well please for pretty cheap and I can download it to my devices. The millisecond I stop paying them it all vanishes. Of course that's not technically true because I could still get it if I don't mind hearing a bunch of commercials which I do mind.
I still don't think though that this is the heart of it. A book or a record is something you can grasp with your mitts and feel, smell, taste...well maybe not taste but you get what I mean. It is just so...tangible. No matter how good portable and convenient any digital media is I personally just don't get that from it

This has always bothered me a bit as well, I've settled now, when I'm reading a book for leisure, it's a paper book. All my technical reference books are digital though, because I can carry more of them with me alongside my laptop.

Right now I'm reading my way through twenty thousand leagues under the sea.

Geek

That's a great one. My daughter and I looked at that one. We still try to read together but it's harder since she's in nursing school. She's 21 now but still lives at home so I try to make the most of those opportunities before they disappear. Plus she has that.... boyfriend ......that takes up her time. We like to read the classics. We started reading Treasure Island but haven't read from it for a while. Before that we read The Picture Of Dorian Grey. She likes all that Jane Austen and Bronte Sisters dribble and I like things Victor Hugo and John Steinbeck but we settle on classics somewhere in the middle.

I'm trying to flesh out the bookshelf with some classics to give my kids something to read as they get a older. The benefit is I get to read em first. Trying to choose which is next, treasure island, Frankenstein or hound of the baskervilles