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Topic	Compared to a decade ago, do you recreationally read more or less books a year?
WhiskeyDisk 10/18/20 3:37:56 PM #34:	ParanoidObsessive posted... I've definitely gravitated away from fiction almost entirely, and now mostly just read historical stuff, science, and general philosophy. I'm not really sure if my palate has matured or if I've just run out of worthwhile fiction (because I've read most of the good stuff in the genres I'm interested in and most new stuff is kind of trash), but whenever I try to get into new fiction I always have a hard time finding anything that really catches my interest. most of my fiction these days are new installments of series that i've followed for quite a while or anthologies of short stories. I suspect we're both at an age where its just so hard to show either of us something new, something novel, something we haven't seen before, or something where we don't see the twist lampshaded well in advance. we're both well schooled in the titans of scifi and fantasy, and everyone "new" seems to think they're going to really get the kids fired up with a twist Asimov or Clarke or Goodkind used decades back and hasn't been seen since. So many writers these days seen to just chace the same shit that's been done for decades. I know you hate Dresden Files, but its at least a different take on urban fantasy. Firewerx posted... Fewer. I'm not happy about that, and I keep meaning to make up my mind to put it right. Get. A. Kindle. A Paperwhite, not one of the glorified tablets. a straight e-ink reader. zero distractions, just hit me with crispy text. the Paperwhite completely changed how i read. Any light, Any angle, any time. with wifi off the battery lasts for like a month on a charge. no notifications, nobody looking at the cover of my paper book and trying to start a conversation when i'm clearly reading and not fishing for a chat. I can read anywhere, anytime, and you can go find someone else to talk to right now. light, dark, sitting up, laying down, sideways, in a hammock, hanging upside down from a jungle gym like a bat, it doesn't matter. God, i wish the Kindle was a thing 30+ years ago, the thing is just amazing as a reading device. it weighs next to nothing. I keep it in a plain black case in my day bag, and i pop it out of the case if i plan on reading for more than 10-15 minutes at a clip. change fonts, margins, text size on the fly...just load the thing up with all the shit you want to read, kill the wifi, and you're good to go. no incessant app notifications distracting you every 3 minutes, just the text of a book on a sharp display. its probably one of the 10 items i own that I would wholeheartedly give a 10/10 review as an outstanding product. it is purpose built to do one job, and it does that extremely well. that job is to put clean text in front of your eyeballs to read it. screw the kindle app, screw the browser app, screw the Fire, the Oasis, and every other device Kindle makes, i'll take the Paperwhite, hands down. it really is a gamechanger if your intention is to read. --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:946002932] in Compared t... [t:79046704]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted... </cite> <quote>I've definitely gravitated away from fiction almost entirely, and now mostly just read historical stuff, science, and general philosophy. I'm not really sure if my palate has matured or if I've just run out of worthwhile fiction (because I've read most of the good stuff in the genres I'm interested in and most new stuff is kind of trash), but whenever I try to get into new fiction I always have a hard time finding anything that really catches my interest.</quote> most of my fiction these days are new installments of series that i've followed for quite a while or anthologies of short stories. I suspect we're both at an age where its just so hard to show either of us something new, something novel, something we haven't seen before, or something where we don't see the twist lampshaded well in advance. we're both well schooled in the titans of scifi and fantasy, and everyone "new" seems to think they're going to really get the kids fired up with a twist Asimov or Clarke or Goodkind used decades back and hasn't been seen since. So many writers these days seen to just chace the same shit that's been done for decades. I know you hate Dresden Files, but its at least a different take on urban fantasy. Firewerx posted... </cite> <quote>Fewer. I'm not happy about that, and I keep meaning to make up my mind to put it right.</quote> Get. A. Kindle. A Paperwhite, not one of the glorified tablets. a straight e-ink reader. zero distractions, just hit me with crispy text. the Paperwhite completely changed how i read. Any light, Any angle, any time. with wifi off the battery lasts for like a month on a charge. no notifications, nobody looking at the cover of my paper book and trying to start a conversation when i'm clearly reading and not fishing for a chat. I can read anywhere, anytime, and you can go find someone else to talk to right now. light, dark, sitting up, laying down, sideways, in a hammock, hanging upside down from a jungle gym like a bat, it doesn't matter. God, i wish the Kindle was a thing 30+ years ago, the thing is just amazing as a reading device. it weighs next to nothing. I keep it in a plain black case in my day bag, and i pop it out of the case if i plan on reading for more than 10-15 minutes at a clip. change fonts, margins, text size on the fly...just load the thing up with all the shit you want to read, kill the wifi, and you're good to go. no incessant app notifications distracting you every 3 minutes, just the text of a book on a sharp display. its probably one of the 10 items i own that I would wholeheartedly give a 10/10 review as an outstanding product. it is purpose built to do one job, and it does that extremely well. that job is to put clean text in front of your eyeballs to read it. screw the kindle app, screw the browser app, screw the Fire, the Oasis, and every other device Kindle makes, i'll take the Paperwhite, hands down. it really is a gamechanger if your intention is to read. --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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