In which there are books. In various formats.
I’ll start school in eighteen days (if the financial aid office at WWCC ever awards me any aid, that is) and probably won’t read much that isn’t assigned for the next nine months. That being true, I thought I’d share my current reading-for-pleasure list with you.
“Real” Books
As far as treeware goes, there’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-third Annual Collection that I haul out every once in awhile. I’m not sure if I’ve read it before or not, but I don’t remember the stories so it’s just like reading them for the first time anyway. There’s also Eternal Wisdom, Upadeshamritam Part 2. I have read this before, but it was different water then and I was a different bridge.
Ebooks
The last three items I opened on my Kindle were the October 2010 edition of Asimov’s Science Fiction (the double issue! yay! delivered wirelessly while I wasn’t even looking!), Bright Of The Sky (a loss leader Amazon.com suggested to me and which I downloaded because hey, it was free), and Free As In Freedom: Richard Stallmann’s Crusade for Free Software.
The last three ebooks I added to the Kindle were Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, Galt’s The Life of Lord Byron, and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
I have fifteen non-fiction items on the Kindle, all free samples from Amazon, that I have not yet begun to read, and I’m on page three of Cory Doctorow’s Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. I guess I forgot it was on there because I buried the ebook in a folder I haven’t looked into for awhile.
I bought the latest Clarkesworld Magazine a few days ago and am about to crack into that, and I’ve been reading Cryptonomicon on and off for months. It’s hilarious and brilliant, but somehow I never feel compelled to read it. (My favorite Stephenson book was Anathem; I actually finished that in a reasonable amount of time. It took me forever to read Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, and forget about The Baroque Cycle; I’ll never read those. NOTHING should require that many words to convey!)
Miscellaneous Book Facts
Total number of ebooks (including magazines and today’s NYT) on my Kindle: 79
Total number of ebooks on my iPod (in five different reader apps): 110 (a few of which are duplicated on the Kindle)
Total number of ebooks in Calibre: 304 (about a sixth of which are DRM-locked to devices I no longer have but most can be re-downloaded for the current device)
Total number of “real” books I own: 113 (most of which are cookbooks, and 6 of which are musical scores)
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Wow, I’m jealous you have “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.” I really wanted to get that because I’m hoping to read myself into a coma. *eye roll*
I have problems deleting e-books, it just goes against the grain. I have only done it for a couple that I HATED, but because they don’t really take up space I just put them in a file and pretend they don’t exist. I give away paper books pretty easily.
I probably have about the same in paper books as you, maybe a few more including cook books. Ebooks. Umm. I’m not sure exactly. 750 maybe? Lots of short stories though, ranging in length from 12-30 pages so that makes it seem like more. Really. I also review for Torquere so I don’t pay for my review copies. (Can you feel me madly scrambling to justify the numbers vs my bank account?)
I’ve read them all except about 50 in my TBR file. This heat has put a cramp in my reading. I can’t focus when I’m hot, thus have read hardly anything this week and it shows on the blog. Bleh.
You review for Torquere? Niiiiice. I didn’t count all the ebooks I own but don’t keep local copies of, e.g. the books in my Fictionwise, Baen Webscriptions, Amazon.com, and Mobipocket accounts. -m