Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by narenst on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:58PM (#25451437)

I have a toddler at home. I purchased a kindle a few months ago and it has drastically increased my reading time. I try to carry the kindle around the house instead of my phone. And read whenever I can - 15 to 30 mins chunks. I also read in bed before going to sleep and the backlit kindle is great for that.

Also I have been renting kindle books from my library. Very easy to try books and continue reading only if I find it interesting!

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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by kqr on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:13AM (#25453925)

My son is still an infant, and sometimes things (teething, stomach aches, who knows) keeps him from sleeping. The Kindle makes it much more tolerable to walk around and rock him at night.

Of course, it also helps that my employer will reimburse any book purchases I make.

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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by scruple on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:25PM (#25451627)

How does renting Kindle books work? I'm intrigued.

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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by eej71 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:31PM (#25451665)

Our local library makes it pretty easy. Ours works through an app called Libby that connects with my library card and I then download books to the kindle.

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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by jelliclesfarm on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:52AM (#25452974)

I also recommend Libby. It used to be Cloud Library with our public library but they phased out of it and it’s Libby now. I like it much better. They also have audiobooks.

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