Pretty much what you said.

"I'm all over the place and read a lot of different books, though mostly fiction. Some of my favorite books are fantasy novels and some are collection of very literary short stories and some are neither of those things."

I would think since no one is making any money and you are doing for yourself it wouldn't be any different that recording a TV show to be watched later or even a movie to be watched a number times in the future.

I have thought about doing that with some older books that aren't on eBook or Audible. The poor paperbacks are falling apart and some can't even be purchased any longer.

Some of my friends have written stories and shared them with me. Kindle has an app or had one anyway (it still shows up on my computer but I haven't used it in a few years) that your could upload a document onto your Kindle. I have a number of my friends stories. They aren't professional writers but like to write and I like what they have written. It is simpler to carry my Kindle around that a bunch of papers I've printed off my laptop.

I usually answer "Science Fiction, and Fantasy" which is true more or less. When I dip out my usual genres it's because I went looking searching for something. A while ago, when I was going to roleplay as a gang lord style character, I read a book about a guy in the mafia that gets "killed" on the record, but off the record is set up in Vegas.

Recently I've been sticking with my normal genres. I read a couple of the Witcher books, and after that I read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Maybe you should read the article instead of leaving such a pointless shallow comment

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I figure many people here are aspiring authors as well. Many of these aspiring authors may also be looking to make it their living or make it "big" and may not have the same "You bought your ticket, you may pass" mentality as I have. A person forced to buy a second book is just more profit, after all.

Law and ethics are separate and they are forever arguable. For those that would profit from an extra copy sold or those that would advocate for the people that write those things which they hold dear... I can understand it.

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But I still hold that this is harmless and ethically neutral... The copy is for one's own use and they already paid the author and publisher the asking price as you said.

Memoirs, creative non fiction, Christian books, and fiction.

I gravitate toward memoirs and short novels based on true stories. Also recently books on new-age philosophy.

Sex books mostly

I personally tend toward science fiction, fantasy, gardening and books on Australians at war. I will however read any book that someone says is good. I am reading a series of books at the moment by Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins on the falsity of religion. That’s way off my market. I think most people have an eclectic taste when given something of interest?

Im surprised to see this so downvoted Its not even advocating for piracy, just using long-established AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER PERMISSIONED [READ: LEGAL] rights.

EDIT: The post as a whole is also downvoted, just for asking humbly. Hmmmm

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”

"None of this would have happened if it weren't for the she-shed."

Suburban Hell

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

I just realized I left out the words "from a library". It appears Australia also has public libraries that are free to use. Mine has a couple of apps Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy that allow me to check out a variety of digital media.

There is a YA series where the font is red or green, depending on the character POV. I don't remember the title, and it may be a really good book, but it hurt my eyes too much. Generally, anything other than black doesn't work. And as I get older, white-white pages make my eyes more tired than creamier white pages...

And there have been a few books where the font didn't work well for me. I like ebooks because I can change font, size, background, etc. It definitely is better in that regard!

Guess the author isn't Ukrainian themselves since Ukraine has banned Russian lit.

(Also, I've exhausted my monthly free article quota so can't read the link.)

It's likely. Mould and perfume allergies both run in the family. I've been trying to live around that regardless of if I have it, so my family can still visit.

"It began as a mistake."

The opinion as an author is definitely appreciated! I had no idea making a book could be so expensive. Thank you for both the insite and your contribution to the world of words.

I usually just skim the page that I am on/ the previous page to try to remember where I was when I left off

Will definitely look into that! That's well within the budget both for rebuying and for the wanted list. Patients and wanting the same thing for years before I get it are both my strong suits. Thank you.

I was under the impression that you need a prescription to get reading glasses? Or do mean the magnification style ones?

Thank you! I'm mostly ok as I'm I slow reader that likes to stare into the distance in thought, just automatically. It's still good to keep in mind though. (Damned eyes and their many refusals)

I'm in QLD Australia. Are there specific sites or do you just find a random site and hope it's legit?