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How to revive your love of books
- nephihaha 11mo agoRead them and buy them in physical form. Don't just feed the coffers of Amazon. I have read two backs in the last two days: Paul Laird's "Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones" in hardback and Sally Rooney's novel "Normal People" in paperback. I'm currently reading a book about female Scottish painters.
- Ayanonymous 11mo agoThe article makes some good points about rekindling a love of reading, but in small spaces like mine it’s not just about motivation — it’s a logistical puzzle. When your bookshelf becomes a stack of teetering towers and you’re living in a rabbit hutch of an apartment, the next “reading goal” becomes “figure out how to store all these books.” Anyone else battling space constraints for your library at home?
- turtleyacht 11mo agoAs a riff on Parkinson's Law [1], "Book collections eventually expand to fill all available space." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
- FrankenDino 11mo agoUse your public library and/or read ebooks. In the US, the Libby app is great for finding, borrowing, and reading ebooks from one or more public libraries.