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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I have rather more than that in both categories. An exact count of the physical books would be tough to do, as many are in boxes in an offsite storage unit. I am double and sometimes triple rowed on the shelves.
Too many adults never do learn to see reading as fun. It's forced down their throats at school, often in manners that will take any fun out of it, and it's seen as a chore to be done because they have to.
The Harry Potter books are a bright spot because they got that kind of readership, and were read by enormous numbers of adults as well as the kids that were their intended audience. It was the first fiction a lot of adults actually read for pleasure.
(And Juvenile/YA publishing is an industry bright spot. I was in a mall Barnes and Noble location a while back. It was on two stories, and almost all of the books were upstairs. The ground floor was given over to the cafe, cards, games, magazines and gifts - stuff that sold. The only books downstairs were current Juvenile/YA hardcover bestsellers. If that store only sold books, they'd have long since been out of business.)
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Dennis
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I have about 8 boxes of books in storage. Only one bookshelf in my tiny apartment. I can't stay away from library sales. I mean a bag of books for $2 is just too tempting. We are talking 10 to 15 books in a bag. They are paperbacks but still... I haven't been to B&N in a long time even though there is one just down the street. Last time I went to one was Tennessee. They had marked up all books by $1 to $2. I found the books I wanted then went home and ordered them on Amazon.
Hubby only read to book 5 on Harry Potter. He said it got too dark after that. I read them all and listened to them all. We have tried to get him into books after that but there just hasn't been any fiction he found enjoyable. He even bought a few action novels and gave up after one chapter. He is a big TV/Movie watcher though. I'm not. I prefer to read or listen to an audiobook.