I’ve known for quite a while that the main reason my book backlog is growing (other than “I keep buying books”) is the same device I draw my cartoons on.
The iPad’s always ready to offer me a quick distracting endorphin hit: check my feeds! watch a BSG video! play one more of the billion Wordle clones out there!
It’s especially bad when I’m reading an e-book on it, what with notifications popping up — few of them worthy of my attention, but all of them stealing it.
Still, I have a few in my queue that I’m really excited about. I just finished Mick Napier’s Improvise. Scene from the inside out, and started Tom Blank’s The Principles of Comedy Improv. Next up in fiction is Lake of Souls, a collection of Ann Leckie’s short stories, and then Samantha Harvey’s Orbital (which I think will be my first time reading a Booker Prize-winner — don’t judge me).
if you enjoyed a movie/show, and it was based on a book, there’s a 90% chance that the book is even better
And you get the characters’ mental commentary that a show usually has trouble getting across
The 10% is Philip K. Dick
TAKE HIS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH
hehe it’s “dick”
but seriously, disagree. they are pretty different tbf
I can’t throw stones when I have a stack of 27 sitting next to me.
But I’d also add “Heard this is really good, too bad the author went crazy.”
My TBR is never ending. Like a ratio of 10:1 (added:read), but I’m pretty happy that my “pile” is down to a very sensible: 4 in the bedroom, 3 in the bathroom, 2 in the living room.
But I’d also add “Heard this is really good, too bad the author went crazy.”
I’d add “the author is a real dick” because that actually matters to me.
You forgot the one where your favorite author turned out to be a crazy rape demon.
Hardback is always worth the price
Honest question: what is the appeal?
I usually only get them incidentally, but don’t notice a difference other than the book feeling harder.
- They are sturdier and require less delicate handling, lest you damage a paperback’s cover, or accidentally bend some of the pages
- i always remove the paper graphic covers from HB so i just have the bare cardstock cover
- this is handy if you need to travel with it, say on vacation, or to / from school or work
- the spine is a lot sturdier and looser
- with PB, the spine is just the same paper material as the cover, and it forms creases as you read
- with PB, the spine is usually really tight, which makes it really hard to lay out the book flat
- with hardback, the spine is separate from the cover, which lets it flex more easily, and the material that binds the pages is generally more durable to flexing over time
I should probably note, i mostly read from e-ink tablets these days
But i still prefer HB over PB if i need / have a physical copy
That’s some good points. I hadn’t associated a tight spine with paperback, but now that you mention it, I can see it. I hate when you have to tilt a book left and right to read into the dark inner margin (looking at you, Sarum, at over 1000 cramped pages…). Anyway, I think you’ve sold me.
i always remove the paper graphic covers from HB so i just have the bare cardstock cover
Yeahhh, I like that too. The paper covers annoy me, actually. So loose, and always sliding around.
Thank you for taking the time to write that out! :)
- They are sturdier and require less delicate handling, lest you damage a paperback’s cover, or accidentally bend some of the pages
I do like reading a book after watching the adaptation though. Like reading Cloud Atlas after loving the movie was a treat.
