I get nearly all my books from the library.
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Or a rather frustrating experience. This is coming from my personal experience with a Doctor who book. Thankfully it was a one time thing.
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Browsing is really the thing I miss. I love walking around in a bookshop and finding interesting books I didnāt know I needed, and online kinda ruins that.
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In another lifeā¦
Once upon a time I enjoyed browsing books and finding things to pique my interest. That faded before the demise of brick-and-mortar bookstores. I read mostly fantasy books as a teen and into my early 20s, I guess. But then the New Adventures came along, went monthly, were joined by the Missing Adventuresā¦
That was pretty well the end of me reading anything other than Doctor Who and spinoff books. Sure after the insane 3-book-a-month period where every month there was an EDA, a PDA, and a Benny NA, things calmed down a bit, but by then I had other things going on in my life and wasnāt reading as much. Hmmā¦where was I?
Oh yeah, at that point browsing had been replaced with checking for new Who material. There was a certain tingle of anticipation there, as I never knew just when something would show up, especially here in the US where arrivals were more erratic. But those were quick visits, not the leisurely pleasure of browsing.
Heck, at this point, Iām surprised I even remember browsing!
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Physical. Nothing makes reading prose more enjoyable in my opinion that been able touch and flick the pages with your own fingers. It makes the attachment to the book grow and keeps me invested.
I feel that personally I already spend enough time with a screen in front of me so its nice to just surrender myself to a book for half an hour or so each day. The feeling of flicking to the page and removing the bookmark, putting it back in. Seems really daft but I feel like Iām experiencing a book that way, rather than just consuming it.
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