Thread: Have ebooks changed your reading habits?
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Old 06-30-2015, 06:35 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
A. I live in Oaxaca, Mexico, and prefer to read in English. So, for twelve years I read what I could find. It wasn't totally hopeless but sometimes it got a bit grim. With my Kindle I can read what I want to read.

B. I used to read series but have abandoned most of them. I got fed up with Mathew Scudders alcoholism and AA fundamentalism. I got tired of hearing about Kay Scarpetta's lesbian niece who was the FBI agent. And Inspector Ian Banks' love life is a bore.

C. I agree with a previous poster. When I bought paper books and lugged them home I tended to read them. Now, if a book a bad I'll dump it. My record was a book that started with five pages of detailed torture and when it shifted to the gang rape of the tortured woman I dumped it. I think I was on page six.

D. FWIW, when I was working my reading was 98% non-fiction and was work-related. Once I quite working I flipped and now my reading is 95% fiction.

E. I know it's just a business but I appreciate Amazon making the first Kindle, pursuing the market when it was almost non-existent, and being a source of books for me to read. Thanks, folks.
About your comment point C - That is a short enough "dump" length that a sample would have indicated the book was not for you.
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