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Originally Posted by -Thomas-
wow $200... how many books did you get in total? And how much time do you need to read them? Do you have any other hobbies?
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I got three or four magazine issues, a couple of collections and about 15 books IIRC. Plus a few freebies and short stories.
One of my problems is that I read quite fast. I'm still only getting about 30k words/hour out of the Sony, I think it's a combination of small screen and slow page turns[1]. But that does mean that a 90kw novel only takes about three hours. I've given up trying to train myself to forget books, now I just leave them for a year or two before I re-read them. The problem with that is that library books wear out and vanish but books that I buy stack up (two to four novels a week, 52 weeks a year, two year's worth of reading... more than 200kg of books).
One irritation I'm finding with books that I scan and OCR is that I remember much of what I've proof-read so that the final book is half-familiar. But poorly proofread books annoy me a lot (so even many bought works are hard to read... hmm, maybe that also helps account for my slower reading on the liseuse).
I have lots of other hobbies, but I like to read for an hour or so before I go to sleep each night.
www.moz.geek.nz/mozbike for example.
[1] (edit) I'm using a 9pt font in LibPRS I think, so I get about 27 lines per page. This is why I'm so intent on getting a double page reader or one with a bigger screen. I might have to drop another point in text size.