Does anybody still read?

[g5000]

LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks

librivox.org

Librivox has thousands of free audiobooks read by volunteers. You can also volunteer to make a recording.

I am currently listening to the audio version of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report about the 2008 economic crash.

It is so lengthy that three different readers are involved, one of which is AI Claude.


For free print books there is Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Between those two sites, there is enough material for several lifetimes.

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[jacksonlamb]

Fortunately the 2 library systems I have cards for have a good selection of large print books. Kindle is something I've thought about. I downloaded Kindle for PC to my desktop and use it for my daily Bible readings and used it to read an eBook or two from the library. In the not-too-distant future I'll likely take the plunge for a real Kindle.

I have a Kindle and an Amazon Fire. The latter is big and multi-purpose, so I use that for conferences and presentations. I keep the Kindle by my bed.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

The last book that I read was this one and I finished it last year.

God bless you and Mark always!!!

Holly

P.S. Mark did a wonderful job, and I pray that the book was a success for him.

 

[my2¢]

I have a Kindle and an Amazon Fire. The latter is big and multi-purpose, so I use that for conferences and presentations. I keep the Kindle by my bed.

What version of Amazon Fire? I have an ancient Amazon HD 6 version that predates my phone and rarely use due to its small screen size. It still good for a game of cribbage or rummy and so I leave it at that.

 

[midcan5]

Currently reading. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."

https://www.amazon.com/Post-American-World-Fareed-Zakaria/dp/039306235X?tag=usmb-20

 

[jacksonlamb]

What version of Amazon Fire? I have an ancient Amazon HD 6 version that predates my phone and rarely use due to its small screen size. It still good for a game of cribbage or rummy and so I leave it at that.

I have an 11 now, replacing a much smaller 6. It was a very good machine for its day and age.

 

[Dekster]

Fortunately the 2 library systems I have cards for have a good selection of large print books. Kindle is something I've thought about. I downloaded Kindle for PC to my desktop and use it for my daily Bible readings and used it to read an eBook or two from the library. In the not-too-distant future I'll likely take the plunge for a real Kindle.

I hate wearing reading glasses because it screws up my vision when i take them off. That said, there really isn't anything that captures my fancy right now. I read all the classics I ever intend to read, have plowed through more spy/military novels than one person ever should, did the grisham tour, did some modern european stuff, yada yada yada. I used to really enjoy narrative non-fiction novels but even those are yawns these days when I can actually find one that interests me. My wife loves crime/murder novels, but I told her she is just researching how to get away with offing me, to which she simply replies, "oh, I've already figured that out."

 

[LibertyWeeps]

It's very rare that I read a book. It has to be something that interests me enough to pick it up and carry it to the checkout stand.

I think the last 2 books I read were The Divinci Code and The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

 

[g5000]

I hate wearing reading glasses because it screws up my vision when i take them off. That said, there really isn't anything that captures my fancy right now. I read all the classics I ever intend to read, have plowed through more spy/military novels than one person ever should, did the grisham tour, did some modern european stuff, yada yada yada. I used to really enjoy narrative non-fiction novels but even those are yawns these days when I can actually find one that interests me. My wife loves crime/murder novels, but I told her she is just researching how to get away with offing me, to which she simply replies, "oh, I've already figured that out."

I'm in a similar situation. I've read tens of thousands of books and fiction just doesn't do it for me any more.

I've been reading a lot of economics books, histories, and biographies for the past 20 years, with the occasional novel.

I'm fascinated by the French Revolution. I've read a lot of books about that. And countless books surrounding our Founding and the biographies of our Founders.

Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton is really good.

I've read all of Thomas Paine's works. Learned a lot of very surprising things about him.

The biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of my favorite biographies. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles.

As far as reading glasses goes, I get it. I have done most of my "reading" these day with audiobooks.

 

[SweetSue92]

I'm not much into TV, movies, and music. Since retirement I've gotten into books.

My favorite book series recently:

• Amos Decker series by David Baldacci
• Andy Carpenter by David Rosenfelt
• Camino Island by John Grisham
• Dan Rhodes by Bill Crider
• Jesse Stone by Michael Brandman, et al
• Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

In my last few years of teaching I sadly didn't have the energy to read. But since retiring I have finished several books, notably Mad Wife, The Other Bennett Sister, and I'm reading Hillbilly Elegy right now. Next on my tbr pile is The Handmaid's Tale. I started that in high school but was frankly much too young/inexperienced to understand it.

 

[Zincwarrior]

History book club. Currently reading about stories from survivors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.