What are you reading?

[Altitude sickness]

Titan, a biography of John Rockefeller. And The God Delusion.

I don't normally read two books at once, but Titan is very dense, so I don't like to read too much at once or I don't take it all in. Had to do a Hitler biography the same way last year.

CEO, do you use one of the reading difficulty measurement systems before buying. Or just dive in. I usually jump in and then look up the scale of difficulty once I realize it’s slog

Lexile measures, ATOS, and readability formulas like Flesch-Kincaid. These systems help match readers with books that are appropriately challenging for their skills.

Lexile Measures:

• A widely used system for measuring both a reader's ability and the difficulty of a text.
  
  
• Based on word frequency and sentence length.
  
  
• Lexile measures are expressed as a number followed by "L" (e.g., 850L).
  
  
• Help teachers and librarians match readers with texts that are at the appropriate reading level.
  

ATOS (Accelerated Reader's ATOS) System:

• An ATOS level indicates how difficult a book's text is to read.
• Helps match books to a student's reading level.
• Focuses on readability, but doesn't consider factors like literary merit or theme appropriateness.
  

Readability Formulas:

• Flesch-Kincaid assesses the approximate reading grade level based on average sentence length and word complexity.
  
  
• Flesch Reading Ease also provides a score indicating how easy a text is to read.
  
  
• Other formulas include Dale-Chall,Fry Readability Graph, and Gunning-Fogg Index.

 

[CEO]

Titan is great. Pairs well with The First Tycoon about Vanderbilt.

I'll check that one out. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[pilar]

Has anyone read this one? Relatively new.

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I’m trying right now, it’s a hard read, kinda skips around in time and place
I kinda disappointed

 

[DieJager]

Thank you for this I love physical books. But, as a guy who flies for work constantly the kindle is smooch better. Not have to carry a couple big heavy books in my bag and always having new one ready to go if I finish mid flight.

The lack of safari and gun books on the kindle has always been a frustration.

Ron Thomson has a lot of books on Kindle. Reading currently his book At the beginning God created man, the hunter. First of six books that are his memoirs. Thoroughly enjoying it.

 

[CEO]

CEO, do you use one of the reading difficulty measurement systems before buying. Or just dive in. I usually jump in and then look up the scale of difficulty once I realize it’s slog

Lexile measures, ATOS, and readability formulas like Flesch-Kincaid. These systems help match readers with books that are appropriately challenging for their skills.

Lexile Measures:

• A widely used system for measuring both a reader's ability and the difficulty of a text.
  
  
• Based on word frequency and sentence length.
  
  
• Lexile measures are expressed as a number followed by "L" (e.g., 850L).
  
  
• Help teachers and librarians match readers with texts that are at the appropriate reading level.

ATOS (Accelerated Reader's ATOS) System:

• An ATOS level indicates how difficult a book's text is to read.
• Helps match books to a student's reading level.
• Focuses on readability, but doesn't consider factors like literary merit or theme appropriateness.

Readability Formulas:

• Flesch-Kincaid assesses the approximate reading grade level based on average sentence length and word complexity.
  
  
• Flesch Reading Ease also provides a score indicating how easy a text is to read.
  
  
• Other formulas include Dale-Chall,Fry Readability Graph, and Gunning-Fogg Index.

I've never used anything like that. Would be interesting to look back at some of the other books I've read that took a while to get through. Generally, biographies are the only books I treat this way. I'm usually trying to glean some useful info out of them (especially business related) so I don't like to zone out and read a few pages without paying attention like I do with some others.

It took me years to get through Arthur Neumann's, Hunting Elephants in East Equitorial Africa. I very much enjoyed it, but his writing style made for slow progress. I picked it up and put it down many times, until I made it a point to finish it last year. Some books you can read like you're strolling down a smooth path, this one was more like playing a difficult game of hopscotch.

 

[baxterb]

Thank you for this I love physical books. But, as a guy who flies for work constantly the kindle is smooch better. Not have to carry a couple big heavy books in my bag and always having new one ready to go if I finish mid flight.

The lack of safari and gun books on the kindle has always been a frustration.

Thank you. I am also a physical book guy but know a lot of people are in your position and a Kindle / iPad is preferable for travel. Makes perfect sense!

Just FYI the audiobook version of the Corbett Collection Vol 1 (Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag and My Kumaon) should be available soon. It is at final review on Audible and Apple Books.

 

[HookMeUpII]

Thank you. I am also a physical book guy but know a lot of people are in your position and a Kindle / iPad is preferable for travel. Makes perfect sense!

Just FYI the audiobook version of the Corbett Collection Vol 1 (Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag and My Kumaon) should be available soon. It is at final review on Audible and Apple Books.

I end up now listening to audiobooks on my commutes. With 2 little ones at home, it makes it hard to crack a book when I am there.

Currently listening to Green Hills of Africa. Classic. I will say, the audiobook recording is very good.

 

[DieJager]

I end up now listening to audiobooks on my commutes. With 2 little ones at home, it makes it hard to crack a book when I am there.

Currently listening to Green Hills of Africa. Classic. I will say, the audiobook recording is very good.

Read the book and enjoyed it. Definitely a true classic.

 

[HookMeUpII]

Read the book and enjoyed it. Definitely a true classic.

He really was one of the greatest writers of all time. One thing that just amazes me is how he blends a common person's intangible thoughts of a concept or idea, into the moment of hunting in Africa.

You can't even describe it. You have to just read/listen to it to understand what I am referring to.

Its remarkable how much of a fit finding a good kudu for them was. Based on the book, it seems like it took them weeks.

 

[baxterb]

I end up now listening to audiobooks on my commutes. With 2 little ones at home, it makes it hard to crack a book when I am there.

Currently listening to Green Hills of Africa. Classic. I will say, the audiobook recording is very good.

I love that one! Josh Lucas (the same guy who does the Home Depot commercials) is an excellent reader. I’ve listened to that many, many times. As a matter of fact I wanted him to read another book I have in the works but he is not taking on more books.

 

[eyedok]

Just finished The Ivory Trail by TV Bulpin, will be hunting elephant this fall where this book took place, and am starting The Last of the Few by Sanchez-Arino