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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

Who loves books?

Who on here has an unwavering appreciation of books and all things bookish?

Who still visits (or even remembers) libraries? Those wondrously wondrous buildings filled with publications galore.

Some people just like to amble about in bookshops. Some people just collect books to fill their moth-eaten wooden bookcases.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I still like reading paperbacks. Currently reading an early one by Peter James called Billionaire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One of my first part time jobs was in a friend's second hand bpon store

Over the years built up a huge collection which recently had to get rid of as could not afford to transport them over here

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By *hisisthewayCouple
over a year ago

ipswich

Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I haven't been to the library since before COVID. I love going, the sheer number of possibilities is overwhelming.

We both have loads of books I'm currently looking at 8 on the coffee table

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I borrow audio books from my library... I read 4-6 a month

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I have too many books and not enough time to read

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By *rMrsBrightsideCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle

One of my favourite things to do is browse a bookshop. We have a massive 2nd hand one not too far from us and when we don’t have the kids it’s somewhere we go together and just get lost in there. Had a cafe and a lovely fire to sit in front of on big comfy sofas.

There is something comforting about reading a proper book. I did have a kindle for a while but it just wasn’t the same although it does save on storage.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"One of my favourite things to do is browse a bookshop. We have a massive 2nd hand one not too far from us and when we don’t have the kids it’s somewhere we go together and just get lost in there. Had a cafe and a lovely fire to sit in front of on big comfy sofas.

There is something comforting about reading a proper book. I did have a kindle for a while but it just wasn’t the same although it does save on storage.

Kx"

There's a massive charity shop near me, and a full third of it is a book section. I have to be dragged out

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

Definitely. I always have a book on to go

I'm currently halfway through a 950 page paperback and have the last of the series to follow.

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

I live in a non English speaking country and I miss going into a big book shop and spending hours browsing.

Most books I read now are on Kindle, but I'm a big fan of guide books and the like, which adorn my shelves.

I miss libraries too!

Gbat

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I read a lot. Proper books, not kindle and whatever else is available now on line.

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

I think we should do a -Face In The Book- "photo challenge".

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

I love books. Love the children's book sections in charity shops. I rarely buy books for myself these days but do pick them up for the kids. I don't read as much as I used to but will happily plow through new books at bedtime.

Library trips are mostly for children's books as my little local library has little to interest me. I like science fiction and fantasy books mainly and if they have anything it'll be book number 4 in a series of 8. It's a pain tracking down book 1 if it's fairly old.

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By *eadinthecloudsMan
over a year ago

Manchester

I love me a good book. My Goodreads is pure fiyah!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

Books are one of the simple pleasures in life. I can't imagine being without a book to read.

I'm just about to finish Fast Track, the latest in the Spider Shepherd series. I recently finished the Winter King by Bernard Cornwell.

All I need is Ian Ranking to get his arsebin gear and write another Rebus then I will be as happy as a pig in s***e.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Books rule. Anything printed actually. There is something about the object itself. I read stuff online or on tablets too but books are superior in my opinion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love a book. I keep those special to me and donate others. I do like a kindle for travelling though..

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By *ustmemyselfandi1Man
over a year ago

southampton

"Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader "

Ditto.

Love some fantasy and am addicted!!

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By *ustmemyselfandi1Man
over a year ago

southampton

"Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader "

Ditto.

Love some fantasy and am addicted!!

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By *rsPricklePantsWoman
over a year ago

Room 237 at The Overlook Hotel, Suffolk

Yeah definitely like a good book as for libraries I actually got married in one and have one a short walking distance from home

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By *hisisthewayCouple
over a year ago

ipswich

What’s your favourite fantasy book? I’m a lover of jay Kristoff atm

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

In the words of the great Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges:

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Add a couple of gloryholes and I'd have to agree

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Picking up a book, sitting somewhere quite and having a nice read is great. I buy far too many books but it's just what I have always done. I don't read as much as I used to but still quite a bit when I get the chance. I also like looking at all the ones I got over the years as usually I associate them with something or someone

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By *ensualMan
over a year ago

Sutton

"Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader "

I ran out of space too, which is why I went digital. I also get comics digitally or in paper.

Some of the comments in this thread are like the vinyl v CD argument, in my view all is good, it is the expression that counts and not the medium, well except the weekend newspaper that has to be...paper!

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x"

A series?

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Love a good book and I also listen to audiobooks

Crime, drama type thing

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

I'm pleased to hear that there are sufficient fellow/fellowette bibliophiles on this thread.

Books are great. They maketh the person. It's also an attractive trait.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive been round Malvern today into all the second hand bookshops. I didnt quite have enough time to look but have bought a new pile of things.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I'm pleased to hear that there are sufficient fellow/fellowette bibliophiles on this thread.

Books are great. They maketh the person. It's also an attractive trait."

Do you have a favourite author OP?

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By *urplechesterCouple
over a year ago

chester

I really love books, and struggle to let go of them once I’ve read them, but really should before the shelves break

Miss pc

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"I'm pleased to hear that there are sufficient fellow/fellowette bibliophiles on this thread.

Books are great. They maketh the person. It's also an attractive trait.

Do you have a favourite author OP?"

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I don't have a favourite author because I follow most genres. Someone above mentioned fantasy...I do enjoy the stories from Terry Brooks.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I'm pleased to hear that there are sufficient fellow/fellowette bibliophiles on this thread.

Books are great. They maketh the person. It's also an attractive trait.

Do you have a favourite author OP?

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I don't have a favourite author because I follow most genres. Someone above mentioned fantasy...I do enjoy the stories from Terry Brooks.

I can't get into fantasy, even HP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x

A series?"

A series by different authors. I've another 3 to read by Steve Cavanagh, 4 by James Patterson and one by an author I've not read before, Chris Carter. All brand new books x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a member of the British library before covid. But haven't renewed it after that. I mostly read books on Kindle though. I alternate one fiction and one non-fiction. Read about 2 books a month. Can't live without them.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x

A series?

A series by different authors. I've another 3 to read by Steve Cavanagh, 4 by James Patterson and one by an author I've not read before, Chris Carter. All brand new books x"

I've read a few Steve Cavanagh and Chris Carter, they are a little different to other crime authors. I gave up on James Patterson though as each series was too much to keep up with.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"I'm pleased to hear that there are sufficient fellow/fellowette bibliophiles on this thread.

Books are great. They maketh the person. It's also an attractive trait."

Books are a buffet of ideas, a springboard of possibility.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x

A series?

A series by different authors. I've another 3 to read by Steve Cavanagh, 4 by James Patterson and one by an author I've not read before, Chris Carter. All brand new books x

I've read a few Steve Cavanagh and Chris Carter, they are a little different to other crime authors. I gave up on James Patterson though as each series was too much to keep up with. "

You recommend Chris Carter then? I'm looking forward to reading it, it's The Crusifix Killer I got. I can see why you'd say that about JP, they do go on a bit. I've got a big collection of the Alex Cross series x

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By *hloetTV/TS
over a year ago

Nottingham

I go through phases, once I get into the habit of reading I really enjoy it. But not a prolific reader, probably read 6-8 books last year.

At the moment I'm halfway through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I prefer paper to digital but the open library is a good website. Especially if the book your after is a few years old.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I love books. I've always been a reader. I'm currently coming to the end of a good crime thriller and I've another 8 to get through x

A series?

A series by different authors. I've another 3 to read by Steve Cavanagh, 4 by James Patterson and one by an author I've not read before, Chris Carter. All brand new books x

I've read a few Steve Cavanagh and Chris Carter, they are a little different to other crime authors. I gave up on James Patterson though as each series was too much to keep up with.

Yes I reallyike CC's books and his character Robert Hunter. I've read about 4 or 5 over the last year.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

I love books but I never read a physical book any more, only on my kindle. It's less of a tactile experience but just so convenient I'm happy to sacrifice the feel and the smell!

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By *urga2076Woman
over a year ago

London

I adore paper books. I can still turn to my favourite sections in most of them. Just published my own ebook on Amazon this week but I know nothing will compare with receiving the actually paper copy through the post and relishing the feel of “I made this”.

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over a year ago

"I adore paper books. I can still turn to my favourite sections in most of them. Just published my own ebook on Amazon this week but I know nothing will compare with receiving the actually paper copy through the post and relishing the feel of “I made this”. "

Oh what’s your book called? Sounds fascinating x

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By *urga2076Woman
over a year ago

London

Oh what’s your book called? Sounds fascinating x"

Hard On Us: Memoir of a sexless marriage.

Not sure I’m allowed to self promote in forums so won’t say much more. Feel free to PM if you want any more info. Xx

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By *ustmemyselfandi1Man
over a year ago

southampton

"What’s your favourite fantasy book? I’m a lover of jay Kristoff atm "

Anthony Ryan is my current read but love Brent Weeks, Robin Hobb, anything by Sanderson…..

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By *hisisthewayCouple
over a year ago

ipswich

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By *hisisthewayCouple
over a year ago

ipswich

Robin hobb is on my list. What book do you recommend?

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By *iggyStarjumpsMan
over a year ago

Stockport

I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy.

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy."

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I think you deserve a "Hurrah!" for that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy."

Can't remember last time was in a library though did get locked inside one once

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

I love my hardbacks. Could never use a kindle. These is something so satisfying turning the page x

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy."

I usually go to the library but the opening times have changed and they have reduced the number of books they hold.

Most of the books I see in theb2 local to me seem to cater for older men & women.

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By *iggyStarjumpsMan
over a year ago

Stockport

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy.

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I think you deserve a "Hurrah!" for that!

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By *iggyStarjumpsMan
over a year ago

Stockport

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy.

I usually go to the library but the opening times have changed and they have reduced the number of books they hold.

Most of the books I see in theb2 local to me seem to cater for older men & women. "

I'm fortunate to live between a city and large town so the libraries and their stock is pretry good. They often have a late opening one day.

I agree that there's a lot of fiction that you could say is aimed at older readers. I mostly read non-fiction so it maybe affects me less

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I just got home from the local library with 7 new books. I love browsing and trying new authors or subjects without having to buy.

I usually go to the library but the opening times have changed and they have reduced the number of books they hold.

Most of the books I see in theb2 local to me seem to cater for older men & women.

I'm fortunate to live between a city and large town so the libraries and their stock is pretry good. They often have a late opening one day.

I agree that there's a lot of fiction that you could say is aimed at older readers. I mostly read non-fiction so it maybe affects me less"

It is sad to see the number and type of books being reduced. What makes it worse is I have been going to one of them for 50 years and I remember it being crammed with books. And all the trees surrounding it made it a natural playground.

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By *for2Man
over a year ago

Bristol

I am a total bibliophile, I have in excess of a thousand. I never get rid of a book, they are like old friends you can revisit every so often. I do have a kindle for the bath(waterproof one) and for holidays but there is something about the 'feel' of a real book that there is no substitute for.

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By *adeiteWoman
over a year ago

Staffordshire

I love my kindle. Because of the 700 ish book I've got on there to read (yes, I know it's alot) I'd never fit them all in my house

And it's so lightweight.

Just pop in a bag and off you go on your way.

Easier to read at night with the built in light rather than a table lamp too.

My sister would live in a library if that was an option, she adores proper books as she calls them, always opts for the hardbacks. Waterstones should give her shares

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love books and reading, i use my precious Kindle for novels (mainly crime/thriller). It's easy to carry around hundreds of books plus its lightweight (no hand or wrist pain) and i alter the text to the size i like to read.

I do buy childrens books in paper though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh what’s your book called? Sounds fascinating x

Hard On Us: Memoir of a sexless marriage.

Not sure I’m allowed to self promote in forums so won’t say much more. Feel free to PM if you want any more info. Xx"

I've bought it via my Kindle

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Never counted how many books I have, but it's somewhere between a very large number and infinity. Ran out of wall space for bookshelves about twenty years ago. Got multiple cubic metres of literature piled up around the house and in a rented storage room...

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By *ussetdevilCouple
over a year ago

Swindon

I love wandering around a second hand bookstore or a charity shop.... Pre covid it was a regular past time...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had hundreds and hundreds of novels and it was hard for me to feel ok about giving them away but once i'd done it i felt brilliant, no more dusting books

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

I always think that a good book is never owned but simply handed down from generation to generation.

You can't do that with a Kindle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I always think that a good book is never owned but simply handed down from generation to generation.

You can't do that with a Kindle.

I can pass on my kindle password

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

This is going to be a really rather predictable comment from me, almost painfully so but not enough to stop me posting it.

I absolutely love reading. Love finding out what others are reading, what ignites that spark in them. I love being able to delve into another zeitgeist, get lost in the brilliance of another's mind. Spending time in bookshops with precariously stacked shelves offering glimpses into other worlds, passing on wisdom from generation to generation, healing texts in the form of love notes, affirmations.

I have a rather extensive collection of books (at one point I was having to read a text every week alongside accompanying materials so you do rack them up) and it's still growing now.

And because this is a sex site, I'm going to add an element of smut to it. My greatest, still to be realised, fantasy is to do Hysterical Literature (or a kind of pastiche of it). One day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This is going to be a really rather predictable comment from me, almost painfully so but not enough to stop me posting it.

I have a rather extensive collection of books (at one point I was having to read a text every week alongside accompanying materials so you do rack them up) and it's still growing now.

And because this is a sex site, I'm going to add an element of smut to it. My greatest, still to be realised, fantasy is to do Hysterical Literature (or a kind of pastiche of it). One day.

I just had to google hysterical literature. Sounds fun

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

Of Alder the bookshops in this place she walked into ours. Your quizzical mind is in for a treat.

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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago

Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds

"Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader "

This

with bells on

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

So, where do you all store your books?

Are they proudly displayed in a bookcase or a bookshelf?

Or scattered about the home in some shabby-chic fashion?

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By *awty nannaWoman
over a year ago

sheffield

"I still like reading paperbacks. Currently reading an early one by Peter James called Billionaire."

Love Peter James, The Roy Grace series is brill

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

"I still like reading paperbacks. Currently reading an early one by Peter James called Billionaire.

Love Peter James, The Roy Grace series is brill "

The TV programme was good as well but they only screened one up here.

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By *eisty LadyWoman
over a year ago

Count Your Blessings Cottage, Gratitude Grove

I buy tons of books, but don’t get time to read much. I always have several audiobooks on the go as they’re easy to listen to when I’m doing housework or driving somewhere

I try to vary the genres so I read a good cross section

When it comes to reading nothing beats sitting in a chair with a paperback and having a cuppa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I always think that a good book is never owned but simply handed down from generation to generation.

You can't do that with a Kindle.

I can pass on my kindle password

Me too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So, where do you all store your books?

Are they proudly displayed in a bookcase or a bookshelf?

Or scattered about the home in some shabby-chic fashion?

I used to have several bookshelve units plus books in piles around the house and on the table ... everywhere.

Most are gone now, i have just a few paper books left, everything else is on my Kindle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One paper i did keep is "A Child's Garden of Verse", my aunt gave it to me, it's very well read

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Love a good book me, but only with big text, simple English and lots if pictures

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"I always think that a good book is never owned but simply handed down from generation to generation.

You can't do that with a Kindle.

I can pass on my kindle password

Me too

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Bloomin' philistines!

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By *for2Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Thisistheway(couple)

"Me! I love books…buying them…. Reading them… smelling them…. The only problem is storage. I’m a big fantasy reader "

Who do you read? I like Eddings, Gemmell,Feist,Donaldson,Pratchett, McCaffrey to name a few and my particular favourite is Mercedes Lackey.

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