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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Some of us SciFi readers hide what we read not through embarrassment, but because of people saying "oh you're reading science fiction. You're one of THOSE people. I can't see how anyone can get into SciFi".
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Thankfully, I've never really encountered any of those. I'm lucky enough to have gone to a school full of geeks in high school. In college, I was in computer engineering and the "SciFi geeks" who tended to also have high grades in math and science courses were revered, not ridiculed.
If I had encountered those people, though, I'd probably just ignore them. I'm usually left alone by people who think I'm weird, anyhow.
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Originally Posted by Solicitous
The ease of getting ebooks, one tends to very easily 'hoard' a great collection of ebooks that realistically one will never read. I see people posting about having 3000 ebooks in their collection (and wanting to put them all on their ereader). The 100 books a year challenge is a big one, so these people would spend the next 30 years just to read what they have, not counting what they add to their list.
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I've actually got more than 2,000 titles (mostly fanfics) on my ereader (taking up just a little over 200MB of space). I never realized I actually read that much in a 2-year span. Most of those titles, I've finished reading except for the crappy ones that I've abandoned. 3000 may seem daunting but if you actually enjoy reading what you have, they tend to go by pretty quickly. Now if you were forcing yourself to read titles that you don't really like, finishing even 10 books is difficult.