Reading as a cheap hobby

kimwp

Just finished the salt path by Raynor Winn. A scenic amble with some thought provoking reflections on homelessness, aging, mortality and different flavours of relationships.

Floss

FlorayG said:

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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 

If you think that way, then mine would be approximately 2,120 weeks.

sheilavw

I use borrowbox from the library. Lots of choice and delivered free to your device

Brambling

Floss said:

If you think that way, then mine would be approximately 2,120 weeks.

I think most of us readers are the same Floss  📚 even when I worked shift and sometimes didn't get home until after 1am I had to read before going to sleep

kimwp did you see there are two other books by the Salt Path author , I waited for my sister to n
buy them all and borrowed them 😁 we frequently have a book exchange 

kimwp

Brambling said:

Floss said:

If you think that way, then mine would be approximately 2,120 weeks.

I think most of us readers are the same Floss  📚 even when I worked shift and sometimes didn't get home until after 1am I had to read before going to sleep

kimwp did you see there are two other books by the Salt Path author , I waited for my sister to n
buy them all and borrowed them 😁 we frequently have a book exchange 

I haven't, but I've noted her as being an author I like, glad to see she has written more. I'm on a mission to read 40 books by my 40th birthday (as well as do 39 other things, we'll see!) to get back into reading and find authors that I like. 

MrsStepford

Reading The Shortlist by Andrew Raymond from the DCI Lomond series. Just finished Cold Open which was pretty decent.  

Ten Novels to Read this Summer - The Scotsman:

Queen Macbeth - Val McDermid
The Heart in Winter - Kevin Barry
James - Percival Everitt
Glasgow Boys - Margaret MacDonald
This Strange Eventful Evening - Claire Messud
You Are Here - David Nicholls
Caledonian Road - Andrew O'Hagan
Enlightenment - Sarah Perry
Rabbits - Hugo Rifkind
Long Island - Colm Tóibín

Floss

Current bedside reading pile:

Head North - Andy Burnham & Steve Rotherham
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - Lucy Adlington
My Favourite Mistake - Marian Keyes

Wednesday2000

I started one of the Gillian McAllister books. Just Another Missing Person.

PipneyJane

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

@FlorayG Ouch!  

Do you have a smart phone?  You may be able to read e-books from your library service for free, via an app.  I know my local library service offers this, but I don’t know the details.  (Sorry.).

Personally, as well as attempting to reread several series from my extensive “real” book collection this year, I’ve got hundreds of 99p Kindle books to read via my phone.  I love that Kindle App.  Never again will I be stuck in a waiting room with nothing to do/read for hours.

- Pip

FlorayG

PipneyJane said:

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

@FlorayG Ouch!  

Do you have a smart phone?  You may be able to read e-books from your library service for free, via an app.  I know my local library service offers this, but I don’t know the details.  (Sorry.).

Personally, as well as attempting to reread several series from my extensive “real” book collection this year, I’ve got hundreds of 99p Kindle books to read via my phone.  I love that Kindle App.  Never again will I be stuck in a waiting room with nothing to do/read for hours.

- Pip

I can't read on my 'phone sadly, it's too small to get a decent amount of text on a page