Really Important Decisions About Books
The most stressful part of my Hurricane Experience was that I spent the whole day reading Game of Thrones on my phone and I knew that, SHOULD I LOSE POWER, I would have to stop reading the book in order to conserve my iPhone battery for emergencies. (Power stayed on, and my stress was for naught … THIS TIME.)
The second most stressful part of my Hurricane Experience was finishing Book One without having purchased Book Two, and the Internet and 3G service having VANISHED IN THE STORM. I solved this problem by going to bed at 10 p.m.
The third most stressful part of my Hurricane Experience is today, the morning after, trying to decide if I should buy Book Two on my phone now that the internet is back or if I perhaps should learn from my folly and dependence on technology and purchase a physical copy. It could be a useful training manual should Shit Ever Get Real. Might be nice to have around. But also involves leaving the house, taking my life into my hands, holding a book while reading, which, now that I’ve been reading on my iPhone, seems CUMBERSOME. What do you think?
Why don’t you try getting it at your local library? (Said as both a cheapskate and a librarian.)
@RosemaryF I don’t think NY public libraries were open today, but it’s a good note to add library books to the next pre-storm survival shopping list.
@RosemaryF Yea I borrow plenty of books and even CDs from the libary. If I really like the book, I buy a hard copy or if it’s one of those dirty romance novels with the embarrassing ,overtly sex on wheels hunk covers, I buy a copy for my kindle .
Logan, I downloaded Game of Thrones onto my Kindle before the storm! Thank you, Boston Public Library, for not shutting down eBook downloads like the NYPL did. I didn’t finish it, though, because I had internet the whole time and was watching stuff on Netflix. Massive books like that feel like appropriate hurricane projects.
@RachelG8489 wait you can check out e-books from BPL? TELL ME HOW (please)
@mangosara just kidding, I used The Internet to figure it out. like a reasonable person.
@mangosara ISN’T IT WONDERFUL? I have BPL and NYPL cards, so I download my Kindle books from both libraries. It’s wonderful.
Logan, use the library! Or use an e-reader or phone software to download for free from your library.
Borrow it from your library as a digital copy. Those books are BIG – an ereader is perfect for them.
I still can’t believe people buy books. LIBRARIES, PEOPLE! (Says a librarian.)
@allaswan
I would totally borrow ebooks from my local library, but they don’t do Kindle.
I have a sad face every time I log on to their website to really MAKE SURE they haven’t changed their minds…
@TARDIStime are you sure sure sure because amazon was not allowing libraries to lend kindle books until veeerrry recently and most libraries automatically got access if they use overdrive fo ebooks, which most of them do?
@allaswan Toronto has the sickest bookstores and omggggggg. In other news, I buy books and have a huge bag of to reads.
@allaswan Ouch, says a bookseller.
buy them! the first four books in paperback are only about $20 for the set on amazon. waiting lists for them at the library tend to be very long in my experience, and the paperbacks are small enough to carry around with you for subway reading.
I have points to get three free books on BookMooch. What books should I look for?
@missedconnections THERE IS NOTHING GOOD ON BOOKMOOCH ANYMORE. But mainly what I got was like, classic lit, your Jane Austen, your George Eliot, your Alexandre Dumas
@megano! Ugh, I was hoping that it was just an off week or something.
You MUST read GoT in the dead tree version! Two reasons –
1) You need to constantly flip back and forth to the genealogies in the back and the map in the front.
2)It’s the type of book you want other people to see you read. Some cute boy on the subway will be all “AHMAHGAH don’t you just HATE Cersei?!!” and then you’ll talk and then he’ll ask you out, and he’ll pay.
Oh I am so excited for you and all the surprises! Hurry up and get through book 3 before the TV series comes out. It’s the best book in the series and experiencing those twists is better on the page than screen (although I love the show too, obviously, because it is wonderful.)
But also, get the ebook. Wave of the future/keeping fewer objects in the home/yadda yadda.