Audiobooks, like almost anything presented as audio, are too damn slow: my brains been somewhere else and back again so often I'll have lost the plot. (This also applies to presentations and training online--I love the faster speed buttons on YouTube--and I was the child in school who was reading pages ahead of what was going on in class.) I use Radio 4 as my background music, lullaby through the night, and tune in and out as it grabs my attention.
Kindle all the way for fiction. Increasing the text size is great, especially when tired and with increasingly middle-aged eyesight, and the portability, light weight and capacity are winners all round. I also find the I don't enjoy ageing paperbacks falling apert on me when I reread old favourites. Non-destructive annotations too (even if the Touch makes this a little tedious to achieve). Try before you buy is good too.
I feel guilty about buying cheap on the Kindle. But, I probably spend more on many cheap books than I would do on physical editions, it's maybe spread across more authors. And I do buy quite a few newly released novels at their full-for-Kindle price.
Craft books, non-fiction in general, mostly have to be physical copies.
But I love, love, love physical books. So, whilst we've culled at least once over the years and only moved c2500 this week (mostly not reshelved, yet), the book buying continues, mostly Folio Society, especially as it's moved into lovely editions of classic sf/f/h.
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Kindle all the way for fiction. Increasing the text size is great, especially when tired and with increasingly middle-aged eyesight, and the portability, light weight and capacity are winners all round. I also find the I don't enjoy ageing paperbacks falling apert on me when I reread old favourites. Non-destructive annotations too (even if the Touch makes this a little tedious to achieve). Try before you buy is good too.
I feel guilty about buying cheap on the Kindle. But, I probably spend more on many cheap books than I would do on physical editions, it's maybe spread across more authors. And I do buy quite a few newly released novels at their full-for-Kindle price.
Craft books, non-fiction in general, mostly have to be physical copies.
But I love, love, love physical books. So, whilst we've culled at least once over the years and only moved c2500 this week (mostly not reshelved, yet), the book buying continues, mostly Folio Society, especially as it's moved into lovely editions of classic sf/f/h.
Poetry does not work
wellon a Kindle.