I don't use apple books anymore. What I'd love to do is have a list of all of the books that I purchased on apple books in a spreadsheet or something, so I could see if they're on amazon. #bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
@chiraag@Eceni@bookstodon For ease of use and reading officiency, Kobo is...not great. There's no feature for having the page auto scroll with my screenreader. There's also all this extra fluff. I have to sit there and fumble around the screen at the bottom to find the next/previous page buttons, and by this point I've lost interest in reading 😬
@chiraag@Eceni@bookstodon I encourage you to turn on the screen reading feature of your phone and try navigate some of these apps. if you have an iPhone, you can turn on Voiceover in the accessibility settings, or just tell Siri to do it. I'd love to use something like Kobo, but poor accessibility means I don't, and probably won't.
Currently reading an inspector Harry Hole novel, by #jonesbo. It's the third I read in a row.
Speaking of this... Do you binge read books till you finish the entire series or you'd rather read other things in between? #bookstodon@bookstodon
@GelatDeTramussos@bookstodon I binge. The availability of titles on my library app for ebooks rate limits my ability to read them in a timely/sequential fashion.
Okay, now I want to know if there are any academic journals devoted to speculative fiction. I know there are the anthologies like BtVS and Philosophy (or the book I have on my TBR, the Religions of Star Trek).
If there isn't, must look up what it takes to start one, because that would certainly fall under the umbrella of something I'm working on.
@mycotropic@SteveClough@KitMuse@aram@electricarchaeo@bookstodon I mean, I did not provide a comprehensive list of everything I mentioned. I did mention Inception, too, even though its version of the dreaming argument is incredibly stupid.
@likewise@bookstodon I went for The Double by Saramago. I'm one third in. It's very literary; long sentences, pages upon pages without paragraph breaks, dialogue is written in one single sentence with commas as only punctuation. Quite a bit of breaking of the fourth wall as well. It's not the easiest read, but it's not a slog. I keep picking it up. 🙂
Taking the form of an extended mission message to earth from an intergalactic exploratory mission, Becky Chambers' #scifi novella, To be Taught if Fortunate (2019), is a quick read. While lacking narrative fireworks its a pleasing matter-of-fact description of space exploration & the ethical dilemmas it will encounter. While ultimately rather melancholy, it is an interesting afternoon's read if you like procedural #speculativefiction @bookstodon
Heinlein did about the ultimate gender reassignment in "I Will Fear no Evil"...when Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain is transplanted into Eunice's body, and it turns out the body had a "mind" of its own.
Small independent publishers are having a hard time right now - in the UK both Red Dog Press and Louise Walters Books have announced closures recently - so here’s a profile of a great small publisher, Galley Begger Press, to give them some love! #bookstodon#publishing#ReadingCommunity@bookstodon
@sarahmatthews@bookstodon Leonard and Hungry Paul was one of my favorite reads last year! I like how this published focuses on quality - I’m excited to try more of their books.
Picked up the Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec for vacation next week. I loved her first book The Witch's Heart, it's a retelling of the Norse story of Ragnarok told from the perspective of Angrboda, who is a hermit witch living in the woods. Loki and Thor make appearances. I haven't read any summaries of this book because I know it will be fabulous and I want to be surprised, but I expect it's also based on Norse mythology. @bookstodon#Bookstodon#Fantasy#Mythology
@DuBusGuy19@ExcessivelyDiverting@bookstodon (sorry for the late reply: procrastination combined with a holiday to Brittany) It does look like the glowing profiles in the media were a bit overblown indeed. Thanks for sharing.
I’m reading Star Wars Ahsoka (trying to finish my books TBR this month) and I must say I really like her. It’s an interesting character and a nice addition to SW stellar crew. But I think it’s so upsetting all this discourse of “not being a Jedi” just because she doesn’t belong to the Jedi Temple Studio 54. So, to be a Jedi you must be a member of a country club and that’s it? #starwars#ahsoka#books#reading@bookstodon
it’s coming on winter here in the Northern hemisphere, so I’m counter-programming by reading “Thirst For Salt” by Madelaine Lucas (lovely so far), and I love a Jane Harper thriller.
I discovered them in the 00s and found paper copies of all of them in used bookstores. Now I see on Amazon, some are available in paper (for a king's ransom), some in ebooks.
All of them are on LibGen for free. The author has been dead since 1964, so I don't worry about what the publishers think is piracy in this case...