I have read hundreds of books lately. To be precise, I have heard them.
It is most convenient to listen to e-books while I drive to work and back.
I dont have audiobooks from a paid service. I have hooked a couple of library accounts into overdrive.
I can download books in minutes, vary play speed skip ahead if necessary.
However, I do often feel restricted by the supply thats available at NYPL.
For example, I've just blitzed through the Foundation series(for the umpteenth time!) but no library I know has a copy of the e-book for "Robots and Empire".
That book has been particularly difficult to find. It hard copy is not easily available in bookstores either.
I would have also liked to read "Mother Earth" by Asimov, and to hear the extensions to the Foundation universe by other authors. Those are simply not available in ebook form.
I'm also running short of options at this point. I'm an author-centric reader. Meaning once I like an author I will exhaust everything he or she has written.
I've done this with Rex Stout(of Nero Wolfe fame), Isaac Asimov, Philip K Dick, P.G. Wodehouse, Ed McBain, Dick Francis, Lee Child, Franz Kafka.
I have tried to be captivated by other authors, but without much success. I liked a couple of Heinlein stories, I also caught up on some classics I had missed out in my youth(Dostoevsky, Bulgakov).
Unless I find some inspirational new authors, I will have to resort to picking Sci-fi authors out of a hat!
It is most convenient to listen to e-books while I drive to work and back.
I dont have audiobooks from a paid service. I have hooked a couple of library accounts into overdrive.
I can download books in minutes, vary play speed skip ahead if necessary.
However, I do often feel restricted by the supply thats available at NYPL.
For example, I've just blitzed through the Foundation series(for the umpteenth time!) but no library I know has a copy of the e-book for "Robots and Empire".
That book has been particularly difficult to find. It hard copy is not easily available in bookstores either.
I would have also liked to read "Mother Earth" by Asimov, and to hear the extensions to the Foundation universe by other authors. Those are simply not available in ebook form.
I'm also running short of options at this point. I'm an author-centric reader. Meaning once I like an author I will exhaust everything he or she has written.
I've done this with Rex Stout(of Nero Wolfe fame), Isaac Asimov, Philip K Dick, P.G. Wodehouse, Ed McBain, Dick Francis, Lee Child, Franz Kafka.
I have tried to be captivated by other authors, but without much success. I liked a couple of Heinlein stories, I also caught up on some classics I had missed out in my youth(Dostoevsky, Bulgakov).
Unless I find some inspirational new authors, I will have to resort to picking Sci-fi authors out of a hat!
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