Are you a book reader
 

Alrighty here....who reads books - as in like paper, digital - kindle, --- a book in any way shape or form.

I'll admit I don't have the time to read a book. Everyone here spends downtime in a different form, but for me...it's surely not sitting down...

Maybe a magazine article I'm tuned into but that's as much paper reading as I get.

I'm going to try something new though ! Just ordered a audio book....let's see how far I run with that...

Thanks for the reminder. I need to get back to my challenge book.
"The Eternal Golden Braid". This not my description, but it sums it up.

This is a Pulitzer Prize winning book by Douglas Hofstadter. Nominally, it is about artificial intelligence. In practice, it is also about number theory in mathematics, computer science, cognitive science, art, recursion, the mind-body problem, logic, biology, philosophy, physics, literature, psychology, consciousness, and I am definitely leaving out stuff.

What's a challange book. It is meant to challenge your inner mind....

I must be living in a mancave. Hell, who even knew that there were soooo many books that were offered in audio format straight from the author. I'm going to just throw up copy of the cd in the car and export one out to the iphone for when I'm in the gym. Not even sure if I can digest the book anyhow in either fashion but at least I'm trying....or so I'm telling myself

Get a copy from the library or an audio copy if there
is such a thing. Have fun.......:thumbup:

Godel Escher Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid

*raises hand

I LOVE to read. I can blow through a book in a day or two. When I was on vacation last week, I read three books cover to cover, in addition to finishing a book I already started and I started another on the plane coming home. I do go for stretches without reading. I seem to read alot more in the summer. Just give me a chair poolside or on the beach with a book and I'm happy.

I need to read a "book" though. I don't think the audio book would do it for me and I just don't get the kindle thing.

The Boss & I both read voraciously: V does maybe 45+ books a year, I do ~40 books
per year. I also read the WSJ, NYTimes daily, cover to cover, along with a myriad of
periodicals we get. And, I read my skinny azz off, on the 'Net.

Add in the scintillating reading, here on the Board, and my eyeballs are aching by
the end of the eve.

I have tried a friend's Kindle, and if I was still working/travelling those 150-200 days
per year, I would have one in a heartbeat. I have found audio books to be just ok, as
it is sort of like listening to the radio, back in the '50s, but I prefer a book "in hand".
And, if I'm in the car, it is a classical station or my own homemade compilation CDs.
BR,mD

I can't read...:saad:

join me in the nEwB audio books. Jeez, I feel like I'm sooo stepping outsiding the circle with this audio book.....

I love audio books. I download from Audible to my iPod. Plug the iPod into the "aux in" of the X5, and listen to something interesting while driving, instead of talk radio, etc. It really makes long drives much more tolerable.

how often do you use audible ?

I didn't even know there was such a huge market for audiobooks...until I was on Amazon looking at the paper version and noticed, cd options, kindle options, audible options, etc.

Did a brief research on audible, and on epinions, it was somewhere like 2.5 stars average rating which was not a good sign IMO.

I love audible. I read a lot. No particular genre, just what ever interests me the the I go to the bookstore of the library. I read hardcopy and audiobooks. I've had a membership with audible since 2005 or so. I also download different podcasts from NPR and Engadget and listen through my Intravee in the car! I wonder why audible has such a low rating. They don't have every title but their prices are fair and on par with buying an audiobook CD at the bookstore.

I am usually reading a book in paperback and then listening to a different one on the Audiobook.

I am eager to try the Kindle but I want to wait and see if textbooks will be supported in this format. I would love some of my more technical books to be on the kindle. I am sick of paper clutter and the sheer amount of books that accumulate. I would also love to put all my cookbooks on something like a Kindle with E-Ink in color.

Some books I have read recently and really liked are:
1. Jhumpa Lahiri - Unaccustomed Earth
2. Daniel Silva - The Defector
3. Ray Bennett - The Underachiever's Manifesto (loved it)
4. Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food

Good luck!

Good luck!

"i hope they serve beer in hell" by Tucker Max :lmao:

Just read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, at the poolside on vacation. Then I read Blink, but it was too short and light. I have a Warren Buffet biography, The Snowball, in the pile, but I think I will reread Good to Great first, and then start New Lessons from Dead CEOs. Yes, I read. Can't imagine audiobooks, I would rather hold a real book. I tried one once, but didn't get in to it.

Try doing both. Very interesting results.

Duh! my sister accuses me of "wallpapering" my bathroom & bedroom with books (if she only knew how high they are stacked in my bedroom in Idaho!)

my friend's daughter thought she would do great on her ACTs and was disappointed her boyfriend scored 4 points higher. both are very smart, but the first thing I said to the boyfriend was, "you read alot". he looked at me with surprise and said, "yes". With her very busy schedule, reading was not something Holly did.

I have been a customer of Audible for many years (since at least 2005). I have found their service to be excellent. A couple of times I have had glitches (usually changing to a new device), and when I called their CS, they fixed the glitch immediately. The software has improved over the years, as well. Since I am now downloading to an iPod, they integrate into iTunes, which is nice. If they asked me, I would give Audible 5 stars.

I read a LOT, I've been on a biography kick lately, Hearst, Einstein, Morgan, Chrysler, Ben Franklin, Houdini... I'm reading Lou Holtz' book right now and Ben Hogan's "how to" book for golf.

Anyone here a Terry Pratchett fan?