The Little Free Library is so awesome, and yours is particularly neat! :o) Thank you for the explanation the other day! We do have more and more "public bookshelves" being more or less in use, depending on the area, location, and how well they're known, but in general this works well. Some of these are sponsored by the commune, others by institutions or private persons, and most are taken care of by volunteers (making sure the bookshelf is all right, checking for vandalism, taking away the leaflets somebody always leaves there, or pamphlets camoufalging at books. We're only two humans in our none-too-large house and thankfully the cats don't read, but shelf space is limited enough, too, and the husband adds half a bookshelf every year or so. /O\ The advent of the e-readers was a blessing for me as it made reading easy and comfortable again, and increasingly so. I have various eye- and sight-related issues, including by now also presbyopia, and reading books in a comfortable position (as in, in bed) had become more and more difficult and eventually impossible without the birghtest light - which in turn sucks if your bed partner wants to sleep, and makes yourself awake again, too. At the beginning, I used my kindle mainly to read fandic, though, to save paper and printer ink as reading fanfic at a computer or laptop never really worked for me. Roughly at the same time came the phase when I discovered bookcrossing and weeded out my own books, donating nearly 2/3rds of my own novels to it over time, including favourites I wanted to re-read but got myself as e-books instead. I still have a lot of books and am still buying some, but not novels etc. beacause reading them doesn't really work any longer (by now I need to sit upright with bright ligth to be able to, and that's nothing I fancy for leisure reading, rather spend that time doing needlework *g* ). Some are cookbooks, some are coffee table books, some are beautiful hardcover editions of alltime favourites (for example, I have several editions of various of Tolkien's books in German and English, some "regular" ones to lend to family members, some beautiful editions for the sensual and haptic pleasure *g* ), and I'm also keeping a lot of my books just because I can't let them go, but have digital copies now to re-read them.
For my tally, I'm reporting in for days 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 (OMGoodness how can it be so many I missed? /O\ ), and I'm missing on days 20, 21 and 22. Sorry for popping in so rarely, this is really not a good month for me. *sigh* I finished NaNo on the 25th and have been only doing alibi work for NaNo since - I want to finish the month with working on the WIP but am not in the mood for it, so I'm doing file housekeeping, character list editing and such. But "winning" NaNo was totally anticlimatic, as was the whole NaNo experience, like last year. The relative ressure of the daily word count goal was really helpful, but I had no sense of communtiy whatsoever this year - likey because the easy way to encourage your buddies via PM no longer is easy, and the forums haven't worked for me even before, and are more difficult to use now, too, I've been told. [Bad username or unknown identity: https://shopfront.dreamwidth.org/451595.html]shopfront did a NaNo chat post for us WEDs which is a super idea, and altough it didn't really take off this time, perhaps soemthing of the kind would be an alternative. I confess I forgot about the post a while in, and had so little social energy throughout the month that I wouldn't have posted/commented much anyway.
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We're only two humans in our none-too-large house and thankfully the cats don't read, but shelf space is limited enough, too, and the husband adds half a bookshelf every year or so. /O\ The advent of the e-readers was a blessing for me as it made reading easy and comfortable again, and increasingly so. I have various eye- and sight-related issues, including by now also presbyopia, and reading books in a comfortable position (as in, in bed) had become more and more difficult and eventually impossible without the birghtest light - which in turn sucks if your bed partner wants to sleep, and makes yourself awake again, too. At the beginning, I used my kindle mainly to read fandic, though, to save paper and printer ink as reading fanfic at a computer or laptop never really worked for me. Roughly at the same time came the phase when I discovered bookcrossing and weeded out my own books, donating nearly 2/3rds of my own novels to it over time, including favourites I wanted to re-read but got myself as e-books instead. I still have a lot of books and am still buying some, but not novels etc. beacause reading them doesn't really work any longer (by now I need to sit upright with bright ligth to be able to, and that's nothing I fancy for leisure reading, rather spend that time doing needlework *g* ). Some are cookbooks, some are coffee table books, some are beautiful hardcover editions of alltime favourites (for example, I have several editions of various of Tolkien's books in German and English, some "regular" ones to lend to family members, some beautiful editions for the sensual and haptic pleasure *g* ), and I'm also keeping a lot of my books just because I can't let them go, but have digital copies now to re-read them.
For my tally, I'm reporting in for days 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 (OMGoodness how can it be so many I missed? /O\ ), and I'm missing on days 20, 21 and 22. Sorry for popping in so rarely, this is really not a good month for me. *sigh* I finished NaNo on the 25th and have been only doing alibi work for NaNo since - I want to finish the month with working on the WIP but am not in the mood for it, so I'm doing file housekeeping, character list editing and such. But "winning" NaNo was totally anticlimatic, as was the whole NaNo experience, like last year. The relative ressure of the daily word count goal was really helpful, but I had no sense of communtiy whatsoever this year - likey because the easy way to encourage your buddies via PM no longer is easy, and the forums haven't worked for me even before, and are more difficult to use now, too, I've been told.
[Bad username or unknown identity: https://shopfront.dreamwidth.org/451595.html]shopfront did a NaNo chat post for us WEDs which is a super idea, and altough it didn't really take off this time, perhaps soemthing of the kind would be an alternative. I confess I forgot about the post a while in, and had so little social energy throughout the month that I wouldn't have posted/commented much anyway.