'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

Xandersmum

Just finished Killing Floor by Lee Child - not read any of his before but my dad wanted his books for Xmas so been scouring the charity shops. Then was stuck somewhere and that was all I had in the car! Blooming 'eck, going to want to read them all now!! Still only 3 more books to read before Christmas to meet my goal!

scubaangel

Xandersmum wrote: »

Just finished Killing Floor by Lee Child - not read any of his before but my dad wanted his books for Xmas so been scouring the charity shops. Then was stuck somewhere and that was all I had in the car! Blooming 'eck, going to want to read them all now!! Still only 3 more books to read before Christmas to meet my goal!

I love the Lee Child books but find I can only read one or two close together as they're quite formulaic, and it rather annoys me that anyone could possibly live like such a tramp the way Reacher does. And don't even get me started on the idea that Tom Cruise is likely to be playing him in the films - tall and rugged vs short and feminine :mad:

blindtoast

Finished the 2nd Night World book yesterday and have now started the 3rd. Need to speed my reading up a bit i think as I may have lots of books coming for Christmas and need to clear space on my shelves!!

Observer

scubaangel wrote: »

I love the Lee Child books but find I can only read one or two close together as they're quite formulaic, and it rather annoys me that anyone could possibly live like such a tramp the way Reacher does. And don't even get me started on the idea that Tom Cruise is likely to be playing him in the films - tall and rugged vs short and feminine :mad:

I don't think that is good either - I think they should have gone for an unknown actor that fits how Lee Child describes him - It would have done wonders for someones acting career but oh no they have to go for someone already extremely famous...

Flat_Eric

If you have a kindle, please would you mind sharing which kindle you have, whether you have a cover for it / cover with light and whether you prefer your kindle over tree books or vice versa (kindle being used for holidays, take on the plane only type of thing).

If you don't have a kindle, please share whether you would love one or whether its just not for you i.e. can't beat a real book/smell of a book etc.

thanks in anticipation :j

charlies_mum

Flat_Eric wrote: »

If you don't have a kindle, please share whether you would love one or whether its just not for you i.e. can't beat a real book/smell of a book etc.

thanks in anticipation :j

My son has asked if I would like a Kindle, he has one and loves it. I've refused, I have loved books since I was little and just love the smell and feel of them

Observer

I have a feeling we have had this conversation on another thread before Flat Eric? You still not decided??!! Lol

Anyway, I still haven't changed my mind and really don't want a Kindle. I can see the attraction if you travel alot and want to take it away or if you want it for out of print books or cheap daily papers for example, but personally I like my books and a kindle is currently not for me. However, my Dad loves his, so each to their own I reckon. You could always mix the two

InaPickle

Flat_Eric wrote: »

If you have a kindle, please would you mind sharing which kindle you have, whether you have a cover for it / cover with light and whether you prefer your kindle over tree books or vice versa (kindle being used for holidays, take on the plane only type of thing).

If you don't have a kindle, please share whether you would love one or whether its just not for you i.e. can't beat a real book/smell of a book etc.

thanks in anticipation :j

I really, really love books and have so many that I have no need of a Kindle or other e-reader for the near future. I can see the advantages, though, in some respects: I want to travel the world, and it would be brilliant to have an e-reader instead of taking chunky books in terms of space, plus they would be self-illuminating, so reading in the dark would be a lot easier.

However, despite the amazing reviews for the Kindle, when the time comes I am highly likely to investigate other brands. This is for 2 reasons: 1) Kindles only let you download from Amazon (if what I have read is correct). I want a greater selection of material sources as there is no guarantee that Amazon will always be the best and/or cheapest; 2) Amazon's dominance in the e-reader market is leading to a monopoly on e-books due to reason number 1, which is not healthy for competition, and is already causing problems for book publishers - Amazon is one of (if not the) biggest book selling site(s) in the world, and they own the most popular e-reader. This means the publishers are being held by the short 'n' curlies over what prices they can charge, and it doesn't look like it will get any better. This type of monopoly is what we scream at, say, supermarkets for doing in other retail areas, so we need to make sure that the publishing industry is not dominated by one superpower who can make/break publishing houses and/or authors: we need a multiplicity of retailers for healthy competition.

But if a Kindle owner agrees with the above and wishes to go elsewhere, they can't.

scubaangel

InaPickle - you can but you have to use something like calibre to convert the files to the format Kindle's can use. Although I agree that the dominance of the market is very unhealthy for the publishers at the same time I find some of the prices they charge quite incredible - ebook formatting isn't massively different to the formatting required for a published book, other arguements for the high cost of ebooks are storage of the digital media - paper books are stored digitally before they're printed, and digital media doesnt have the same distribution and physical storage costs and certainly doesnt require the material costs etc.

But to answer flateric, I've got the Kindle keyboard 3g, and use both a lighted cover and a slip case depending on what I'm doing. I make full use of the 3G when I'm travelling for free access to my email, news websites and facebook. Although if I knew I'd be able to get wifi access everytime I travelled I wouldn't have got the 3G version - at the time the newest one wasn't available, the keyboard I do use but I feel that I would be happy to use an onscreeen keyboard just the same as I have to if I want to use symbols or punctuation on the model I do have. To be honest I can see them dropping the Keyboard models in the next rejig, and almost certainly the Wifi keyboard model, since it seems to be a case of buying it being spending money for the sake of it.

InaPickle

I've finished another book.

This one was called 'Clean House, Clean Planet' by Karen Logan.

Opinion: The book was about using alternatives - nontoxics, as Logan labels them - as an alternative to shop-bought chemicals to clean the house.

It's not the first books I have read on this subject. It has some good ideas, but in places felt like little more than a sales pitch for her company, which, as you may guess, sells the bottles/ingredients needed to make the recipes included. A lot of it was not relevant to the UK either, as I don't think I saw one single product available on the UK market namechecked, but we readers are clever enough to realise that many of the products on sale here would have similar properties.

Having said that, the descriptions of what the 'nasty chemicals' can do to you were exaggerated in parts (it's unlikely that alcohol in a cleaning product is going to do us *that* much damage given that people drink it with more or less negative effects, but it was mostyl effective in offering home-made alternavies.

Verdict: a reasonably useful reference to making your own cleaners, if you ignore the hyperbole inbetween.