Reading as a cheap hobby

FlorayG

My reading costs me, because loans from the library cost £1.20 each and I read 3 - 4 books a week. I don't have an e-reader and TBH I'm running out of books I want to read in my library system as well

FlorayG

MrsStepford said:

Good grief @Brambling, 215 weeks is incredible.. Any advance on 215 weeks anyone ? 

I love physical books, both brand new hardbacks and rough second-hand paperbacks. Also vintage cookbooks. I

Just finished the latest DCI Harry Grimm from David J Gatward. Cocaine smuggling, murder, pies and of course, Wensleydale. 

215 weeks what? I'm new on this thread

Floss

FlorayG said:

MrsStepford said:

Good grief @Brambling, 215 weeks is incredible.. Any advance on 215 weeks anyone ? 

I love physical books, both brand new hardbacks and rough second-hand paperbacks. Also vintage cookbooks. I

Just finished the latest DCI Harry Grimm from David J Gatward. Cocaine smuggling, murder, pies and of course, Wensleydale. 

215 weeks what? I'm new on this thread

Continuous weeks reading on Kindle.

FlorayG

Floss said:

FlorayG said:

MrsStepford said:

Good grief @Brambling, 215 weeks is incredible.. Any advance on 215 weeks anyone ? 

I love physical books, both brand new hardbacks and rough second-hand paperbacks. Also vintage cookbooks. I

Just finished the latest DCI Harry Grimm from David J Gatward. Cocaine smuggling, murder, pies and of course, Wensleydale. 

215 weeks what? I'm new on this thread

Continuous weeks reading on Kindle.

What about those of us who don't have a Kindle?

Floss

FlorayG said:

Floss said:

FlorayG said:

MrsStepford said:

Good grief @Brambling, 215 weeks is incredible.. Any advance on 215 weeks anyone ? 

I love physical books, both brand new hardbacks and rough second-hand paperbacks. Also vintage cookbooks. I

Just finished the latest DCI Harry Grimm from David J Gatward. Cocaine smuggling, murder, pies and of course, Wensleydale. 

215 weeks what? I'm new on this thread

Continuous weeks reading on Kindle.

What about those of us who don't have a Kindle?

That's not a requirement of the thread; some people read on a Kindle or on their phones, others read paper, some like me do both.

For those who read on a Kindle or the Kindle app, Kindle itself logs books / days / weeks of reading.

If you start at the very first page & read the whole thread it may make more sense.

Brie

FlorayG said:

My reading costs me, because loans from the library cost £1.20 each and I read 3 - 4 books a week. I don't have an e-reader and TBH I'm running out of books I want to read in my library system as well

Oh dear!  Why do the library loans cost you?  I hate the idea that libraries start to charge.  I know I often pay but that's because I find I have a book days or even weeks beyond when it's due back.

-taff

FlorayG said:

What about those of us who don't have a Kindle?

I think you'll probably find that those of us who like reading can pretty much say every week is a reading week, we just never added it all up before

You have ot pay for books from a library? that's a new one on me, I thought it was just fines...

FlorayG

Brie said:

FlorayG said:

My reading costs me, because loans from the library cost £1.20 each and I read 3 - 4 books a week. I don't have an e-reader and TBH I'm running out of books I want to read in my library system as well

Oh dear!  Why do the library loans cost you?  I hate the idea that libraries start to charge.  I know I often pay but that's because I find I have a book days or even weeks beyond when it's due back.

Because the only free books are the ones you pick off the shelf yourself and as my local library is 80% family drama and crime - neither of which interest me - I have to pay for every book I request to have delivered there. I think I'm keeping my local branch funded. Now I'm running out of books even to request, but loans from other county libraries are £4 each and you can wait weeks for them

FlorayG

Floss said:

FlorayG said:

Floss said:

FlorayG said:

MrsStepford said:

Good grief @Brambling, 215 weeks is incredible.. Any advance on 215 weeks anyone ? 

I love physical books, both brand new hardbacks and rough second-hand paperbacks. Also vintage cookbooks. I

Just finished the latest DCI Harry Grimm from David J Gatward. Cocaine smuggling, murder, pies and of course, Wensleydale. 

215 weeks what? I'm new on this thread

Continuous weeks reading on Kindle.

What about those of us who don't have a Kindle?

That's not a requirement of the thread; some people read on a Kindle or on their phones, others read paper, some like me do both.

For those who read on a Kindle or the Kindle app, Kindle itself logs books / days / weeks of reading.

If you start at the very first page & read the whole thread it may make more sense.

Oh, ok. You can put me down for over a thousand weeks then - I can't remember the last time I didn't have a book handy 

Brie

FlorayG said:

Brie said:

FlorayG said:

My reading costs me, because loans from the library cost £1.20 each and I read 3 - 4 books a week. I don't have an e-reader and TBH I'm running out of books I want to read in my library system as well

Oh dear!  Why do the library loans cost you?  I hate the idea that libraries start to charge.  I know I often pay but that's because I find I have a book days or even weeks beyond when it's due back.

Because the only free books are the ones you pick off the shelf yourself and as my local library is 80% family drama and crime - neither of which interest me - I have to pay for every book I request to have delivered there. I think I'm keeping my local branch funded. Now I'm running out of books even to request, but loans from other county libraries are £4 each and you can wait weeks for them

Ah!  Makes sense!!  Think the price around here is 60p to have a book transferred within the local system.  But at £1.20 you would be ahead buying from a charity shop.  And then can donate back to declutter.   (just don't buy the same one over and over.....)