It seems like your attention span doesn’t allow you to build worlds in your mind so you prefer forms of media that basically show you instead of having you use your imagination.

And also, what makes it different, movies and cartoons (most of them fictional) unless you only watch non fictional movies eg documentaries.

Writers who step into their writing is the whole point of enjoying reading because you can have the same premise for a book but if written by different writers with distinct voices and ways of description in their prose, they would become different books. That is very very fun.

(Also this feels like a post by a teenager who is like “omg I have grown up and grown out of reading made up stories I am an adult omg so busy to read.”)

Pdf drive can help.

Actually I thought of a better answer: another sequel to Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. It's been a long time since The Iron Council.

I read ebooks and listen to audiobooks, but my preference is still for physical books.

No I didn't and I was just kidding yo

Had to happen. Sounds like Ballard's High-Rise meets Traven's The Death Ship.

The film rights are going to be worth a bundle.

You can always read non-fiction.

I don't push anyone to read what they don't want. If novels aren't your thing, that's fine. But you don't see the irony in proclaiming that "this is a made up thing that never happened" and then saying you like movies and cartoons?

I’m using Scribd and most of the time I can find what I need for audible needs, sometimes I get it on Libby as well.

Yes but there is a certainly point where ridicule makes sense. War and Peace in 3 days is just a great way to make sure you don't let anything sink in.

That makes so little sense (but then, book bans rarely do). These guys are working incredibly hard in a world that has no place for them, all for a dream of having their own home/farm, which they will presumably also work hard on. I never saw either of them as particularly lazy.

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If it’s not a rare book, do whatever you want with it.

I would honestly recommend ebooks for you since it seems very hard to get physical ones in your location. There are loads of EPUBs and stuff if you google the title etc.

Just distance and time, no drama, just busy with our own lives.

Even if it’s not self-published, I think editors for pulp entertainment reads is a thing of the past. I am constantly finding typos and wrong word usage that an editor ought to find

Another day, another ebook vs audiobook vs paper book debate on Reddit 😀 . Not everything has to be tribal , you can actually do all 3 and there is a purpose and occasions for all 3.

I just read it a couple of months ago, I thought it held up really well. There are a few bits of language that are racially a bit shocking and as someone else said, the descriptions of some female characters can be quite overly-detailed but the general themes and message are pretty right-on I thought. :)

My two running series' are The Locked Tomb (waiting for Alecto the Ninth) and The Masquerade (waiting for the next The _______ Baru Cormorant) and I think I'd take the latter since the former just came out. Would also take the final book in Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography, though I feel like a poser because I've only dabbled in that set rather than actual sit down to read.

What I am not interested in taking: The Winds of Winter.

Does anybody know how to remove sticker residue off of a dust jacket without damaging or staining the dust jacket? I tried researching this sub. People said Goo Gone but other people said it stains, so I don’t know. I have isopropyl alcohol, if that works.

Out of the loop… who and what?

Thanks for that info. I don't know anything about how the publishing industry works. The book says Simon & Schuster on it so I guessed that would mean it should've been seen by an editor.

There’s an annotated version.

I adore this book and the film is my all time favorite animated movie. I hate how Beagle was treated though.

Yeah for that one I immediately pictured someone reading out loud at full volume in a library, recording it on their phone and then playing it back to themselves (also at full volume) because that's the only way they can read a book somehow, and getting really defensive with anyone who asks them to shut it lol.

I'm not against reading goals, and believe they can help if done right. But you need to set REALISTIC goals. If you're not used to read A LOT and, on top of that, you have attention span issues, your reading goal seems way too high!

How many books have you read last year? How is your routine? Do you work full time? Study? Etc.

Make yourself these questions before you set a goal. If you haven't read any book past year for example, and you set a goal of 6 books this year, this means that, if you reach your goal you read 600% more than last year, which is a huge improvement.

And if you read beyond your goal that's even better! There's nothing stopping you to go beyond it or even raise it after you actually got there.

But, specially if you have ADHD, setting up an unrealistically high goal will only make you anxious and frustrated.