What are you reading?

[Inkgardener]

I’m sitting in my library as I am reading this thread. I am fortunate that as my kids grew up in our last house they always saw me reading books from our modest wall length bookshelf. Six years ago we built our new house and we built out a bedroom into my full library. My favorite room in the house. My daughter is now thirty and she read twice as many books as I did last year, over 50 I think.

So, reading to your kids and having them read daily does instill it in them. I sure am proud.

 

[steve white]

I read in the bathroom/bano/water closet

 

[Russ16]

I love books too. But I’ve gotten tired of literal crates of books on my basement and storage after every shelf and every end table is jam packed. I’ve moved to the kindle. It is also great for me as someone who travels, if I finish a book on the plane I have a huge library at my finger tips.

It sometimes does make me sad that I don’t have the beautiful cover art and illustrations to thumb through. But I also don’t have kids and won’t be. As I get older I realize a lot of what’s in my house is going to be more of a burden to whoever cleans it out than any kind of legacy. I do have some really good books and an extensive collection of The Double Gun Journal that I’d love to find someone in the next generation who will appreciate it to give it to.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

Just finished "Atlas shrugged" by Ayn Rand

Started "Post Wall, Post Square. Rebuilding the world after 1989", by Christina Spohr.

I am very much a history buff, also interested in social science, and of course, anything related to African hunting of which I have about 60 books.

I also enjoy science fiction and crime novels, if they are good.

Read "Atlas Shrugged" summer '76. It opened my eyes to underlying harm and corruptions that I had not recognized before. "The Fountainhead" was good, too.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

I have a few years on you at 82 and I still enjoy holding and reading a real book. But most of my reading these days is dome on my Kindle app on my cell phone. I no longer have the physical space for real books. Most of my book collection is in storage at my sister's house. I need to get back there and try to donate them to the local library. One of my great fears is my collection will sold for $1.00 each at a garage sale after I'm gone. My son, nephews and nieces are not readers. Neither are any of my friends. It frustrates me as I have have always been a reader for as long as I can remember. No wisecracking please.

I tried to donate some good conditioned and titled books to the public libraries. Even 30 years ago, they were space-limited and thanked me as they declined. With the move to digitization, their desire for hard copies will further decrease, I guess. Some of the older "kids" read, and they can have any books desired. They like the gun-hunting, some military history, and some biography. The engineering, science, and business-econ-finance are not their cup of tea. I expect many books will be happily given to whoever wants them. I see some books listed for good prices on ebay, but that is what they ask, likely a far cry from what they get.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

When ready, maybe sell the very special ones on ebay. I tell myself that's what I'll do. . . one of these days.

 

[Nyati]

In my local supermarket there are some shelves where you can place books you want to donate, or pick up anything you like.