The Reading Joy & Delight Thread

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Finished it today! Took only 98 days.

100,000 words doesn't seem a lot. Are you sure you didn't miss off a few zeros?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

100,000 words doesn't seem a lot. Are you sure you didn't miss off a few zeros?

I think it's probably a million, going by an earlier post.

[cgsmom]

I know that most people here think that color is unnecessary for just reading books, but I am enjoying it. Since most of my books are either from Amazon or BN, I usually read on the reader that the book was purchased on.

I recently decided to reread the Robert Langdon series which I purchased from BN. I was reading on my Nook GL4. When I got to "The Lost Symbol" I realized that I had the illustrated edition. So I used Send to Kindle and opened on my Colorsoft. It is kind of silly that I enjoyed it so much more because all the illustrations were in color. But, there it is. It brought me joy.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by cgsmom

It is kind of silly that I enjoyed it so much more...

No, it's not. In this vale of tears we must find our joys where we can.

[hildea]

When I buy book bundles, I often end up reading only one or two of the books in the bundle, but the current Storybundle (https://storybundle.com/fantasy) - up for one day more - I haven't come across a dud yet.

Suzannah Rowntree: Tall & Dark, in a 1800-ish Europe where royalty are literal monsters, a governess and an inventor cooperate to impersonate a missing princess to steak an inheritance.

Tansy Rainer Roberts: Power and Majesty, about a dressmaker in a renaissance-ish city with Roman culture, where a dysfunctional gang of superheroes defend the city against supernatural threats in secret.

Stephanie Burgiss: The Harwood Spellbook. Ever since Boudicca drove out the Romans, women have been politicians and men have been magicians in Angland. But things are going to change.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by hildea

When I buy book bundles, I often end up reading only one or two of the books in the bundle, but the current Storybundle (https://storybundle.com/fantasy) - up for one day more - I haven't come across a dud yet.

Suzannah Rowntree: Tall & Dark, in a 1800-ish Europe where royalty are literal monsters, a governess and an inventor cooperate to impersonate a missing princess to steak an inheritance.

Tansy Rainer Roberts: Power and Majesty, about a dressmaker in a renaissance-ish city with Roman culture, where a dysfunctional gang of superheroes defend the city against supernatural threats in secret.

Stephanie Burgiss: The Harwood Spellbook. Ever since Boudicca drove out the Romans, women have been politicians and men have been magicians in Angland. But things are going to change.

Thanks. I searched out some of those books, they seem interesting.

[nana77]

While returning the borrowed book at the library, I've took some time to see the place, turns out that - wasn't the librarian to have put parfume on the book - that tiny hamlet library have had a single donation of 3500 sci-fi books, time ago. A wall entirely full of them, from the '70/'80/'90. It made me wonder to drop the 2026 goal of following the Urania e-book releases, and just go in there, pick up 4 at once, and so on; for free. Not really for the monies, but looking at those books, the covers, the aged paper, the thickness... also them printed characters aren't too small; just first/second OMG good editions.