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How many fiction books do you all read? (lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.app)
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I'm putting in floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for my living room today. I mostly read e-books on my Kindle, but I have an affection for old paperback pulp books from 60's and 70's.

So I go to ebay and buy "lots" of them fairly cheap, not caring about the titles. Sometimes 10 books at a time. Now that I'm retired I plan to read every single one, even the bad ones. I have the equivalent of a small home library of them now.

How many fiction books do you all read? E-book or paperback. But not interesting in audiobooks. I'm curious about physically-read books.

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[-] admin@lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.app 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, I am a great lover of e-books, and in fact have been on the e-book train since pda's. I even had a rocket book. Long before kindle or anything.

But a lot of the strange crap I read isn't in ebook format. But after I fill my shelves, I'll probably be done with paper books. I like the look of a good study.

My house is paid off, so I'm not going anywhere. This is my forever home. And if by some chance I became sick or something and had to move, then books would be the least of my problems.

But e-books are def my main reading and in fact, a source of income for me since I write them.

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