Lemmy will hate me for this but I subscribe to Amazon kindle unlimited. Since I read so much, I definitely couldn’t afford to pay for each book and the local library is pretty hit or miss on availability. Ultimately most of what I read is entertaining garbage but when you read compulsively like I do, the entertaining part is more important than the quality.
The term is ‘slop’ I believe. I had a KU account for years and since I mostly read GameLit and LitRPG I have been tied to Amazon because very few KDP Authors publish traditionally outside of special print runs.
What annoyed me most at the time I cancelled was authors putting book 1 in KU and then not the rest of the series. Forcing you to buy the books at inflated prices. Kind of like drug dealers.
I don’t read nearly as much as you, but something like 60 or 70 books a year. I found the opposite to be true: I could find way more that I wanted to read on the Libby library app than on Kindle unlimited. I mostly read SF and fantasy, so I go though all the Hugo and Nebula nominees and read recommendations from places like Locus Magazine. Then I tag those books that interest me in the library app, and place holds (reservations) on a handful of the ones not currently available and start reading ones that are. It seems to work pretty well with zero dollars.
I always have a bunch of books on hold on Borrowbox so there’s always one available when I need a new book. Then I start that one and take the rest off hold.
I read Going Postal and Making Money every year. I have every audiobook version for the books. I sometimes read the third one but I’m still annoyed that his Alzheimer’s got bad before he could write ‘Taking Taxes’ and we got a simpler one about trains.
Though given how later on he tried to weave all his books together into a single shared universe, there’s probably a bunch of arguments out there about which order to read them in.
How do you find new books to read?
Lemmy will hate me for this but I subscribe to Amazon kindle unlimited. Since I read so much, I definitely couldn’t afford to pay for each book and the local library is pretty hit or miss on availability. Ultimately most of what I read is entertaining garbage but when you read compulsively like I do, the entertaining part is more important than the quality.
The term is ‘slop’ I believe. I had a KU account for years and since I mostly read GameLit and LitRPG I have been tied to Amazon because very few KDP Authors publish traditionally outside of special print runs.
What annoyed me most at the time I cancelled was authors putting book 1 in KU and then not the rest of the series. Forcing you to buy the books at inflated prices. Kind of like drug dealers.
I don’t read nearly as much as you, but something like 60 or 70 books a year. I found the opposite to be true: I could find way more that I wanted to read on the Libby library app than on Kindle unlimited. I mostly read SF and fantasy, so I go though all the Hugo and Nebula nominees and read recommendations from places like Locus Magazine. Then I tag those books that interest me in the library app, and place holds (reservations) on a handful of the ones not currently available and start reading ones that are. It seems to work pretty well with zero dollars.
I always have a bunch of books on hold on Borrowbox so there’s always one available when I need a new book. Then I start that one and take the rest off hold.
Get old enough, and you forget them faster than you can read. Just rotate
I’ve forgotten how often I’ve read Pratchett’s Night Watch.
I read Going Postal and Making Money every year. I have every audiobook version for the books. I sometimes read the third one but I’m still annoyed that his Alzheimer’s got bad before he could write ‘Taking Taxes’ and we got a simpler one about trains.
I mean, Stephen King has something like ~60 published novels (from memory)… that would keep even the most passionate readers busy for a year!
Though given how later on he tried to weave all his books together into a single shared universe, there’s probably a bunch of arguments out there about which order to read them in.