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This includes articles, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. If you do, what genres and which books?

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I try to aim for reading around 30 books per year. I tend to pick one fiction and non fiction to read concurrently. I tend to enjoy hard sci-fi the most for fiction, and politics/economics for nonfiction.

[–] jiaminglimjm@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

i read the intros to hundreds of pdf books

[–] yxzi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I regularly go to the library to expose myself to reading & discovering new books without distractions

[–] erpicht@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I also frequent my local library! Great place to discover books. (To answer the original question: I read poetry, classics, comics, fantasy, sci-fi, history, and some specialist literature)

[–] HorrorSpirit@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yea, quite often. I mostly read ebooks at the moment, used to frequent my local library before covid hit. The genres i read are all over the place, and basically depend on my mood and what books i can find. I recently finished The Tetris Effect (yes it's not just a video game) and quite liked it.

[–] sproid@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I like reading Light Novels/Web Novels. Usually Fantasy & Sci-Fi topics. But, since my eyes gets tired very easily reading I use often the Text-to-Speech function. Sometimes up to 90% of the time. I'll be honest, many are not that good quality but they entertain me and are in good format compatible with the Text-to-Speech function.

I also read with less frequency Fantasy & Sci-Fi books like Red Rising, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Green Hank, Enders Game, etc.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Currently I'm re-reading entertaining trash.

  • Dan Brown - Angels and demons. Basically indiana jones / national treasure on steroids. Very entertaining and good storytelling.
  • Agatha Christie - And then there were none. An extremely entertaining who-dunnit in a mansion, with lots of twists. Not too long, and keeps you on your toes the whole time.
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[–] robb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Audio books here. When I cook, when I'm at the gym, beginning of my shift while I go through my emails. I listen to mostly trashy sci-fi books, sometimes good / decent sci-fi. At the third book in the "Three body problem" trilogy now, it's pretty damn good.

I average at one - two books a month. Great majority sci-fi. I read only for fun, to disconnect, so my bar for quality is pretty low, there's a loooot of fun stuff out there.

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I read every day, and do about 25 to 30 books per year. Am using https://bookwyrm.social/ instead of GoodReads to track them.

[–] Nyaa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think I've ever really did any dedicated reading since the Eragon series when I was still in school.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I tend to read the most boring kind of books I can find, they're fun.

[–] cityboundforest 1 points 2 years ago

I do! I mostly read fiction myself. I’ve taken to reading things like the Percy Jackson series (both Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus; I still need to read the Magnus Chase Archives and the Kane Chronicles), Pendragon, Eragon, Fablehaven, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and its sequel A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the Ender’s Game series, and many others.

I am currently reading the non-fiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, essays about various facets of the human experience (including such essays as Super Mario Kart, Diet Dr Pepper, and Haley’s Comet), as well as fiction book The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu, a fictional story about the real sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and how she composed music and also created a fantastical, magical world. It’s a very interesting read so far (I’m about half-way through), especially for someone who was, at least for the first six years of their life, classically trained on the piano and learned much about all of the classical composers like Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and others.

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