/lit/ - Literature

Money can go both ways, time however has only the one.

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these are all correct.

generally OP a lot of children's books (classic children's) are comfy. if you want a more serious tone while still being comfy you go with classic sci-fi or gothic. if you want a more positive tone and faster pace while still comfy you go to more absurdist fantasy (discworld) or sci-fi (hitchhiker's guide). classic epics or hero arcs can sometimes come off as comfy too. something not mentioned anywhere here but mentioned in the charts is jane austen character dramas. that's essentially the middle ground between slow gothic and upbeat fast fantasy / sci fi (in terms of comfy). I looked a lot into comfy literature after experiencing The Hobbit.

I just finished a book yesterday, and I'm comfy right now but I don't know which book to start. I just read a light fantasy one-off. I'm in the beginning of a lot of different books that I picked up and dropped. I have some new books I bought and want to read. I have the last book in a trilogy, and the first book in a different trilogy. I also have a kindle and libby so I'm in a very severe case of analysis paralysis. How do you usually decide what comes next? Sometimes it's intuitive and clear for me but sometimes it's not.

I'm curious about this because I was just reflecting on my own life and was wondering how people become these avid readers.
>read all the time when I was younger, before middle school, loved the library and looked foreword to it, loved comic books
>major drop off in middle school, on and off reading occasionally (one or two a year), still enjoyed library but mainly went for movie rentals
>high school: stopped reading fiction entirely. didn't read at all beyond what I had to in school, stopped going to the library
>college: spent all my time at every library on campus for school/studying, got back into reading via nonfiction, read one or two nonfictions a year no more than 4
>post college to the past two years: can easily binge a nonfiction. on and off nonfiction often 2 one month and next month nothing.
>mid to late 20s (now): started getting back into fiction, just about a book a month. can still binge nonfiction.
Reading is a much more active process now because I have to take the time out and sit down for it knowing I could be doing something else. I want to know if other people had similar paths or just read more and more as they got older.

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no but this made me realize when I was thinking about it how libraries changed for me over time

as a little kid:
>fun places of solitude where I can find almost anything and rent movies!!! (this was prior to netflix and using the internet)

middle school (netflix and the internet hit)
>barely used the library except for summer reading and renting movies, barely used school library literally cannot even remember it

high school (first iphones in full swing)
>mostly use school library to either meet up with friends after school or for club related reasons
>literally never checked out a book without it being related to our class literally going into the library to get books, did not use real public library

college (a few years ago)
>i HAVE to use literally every school library (i think there were 6?) in order to have a space to properly study, and for the computer labs
>sometimes use the library login to get research papers
>again clocked in so many fucking hours at literally every library doing either entire days of work in the computer labs or studying for full days at a time, sometimes with friends
>literally still know the quirks of every computer lab and which one to go to for what type of project
>used my local libraries for recreational reading again and started to love them, but would never actually spend time in them to read or study because the furniture sucks and there's too many kids and the computers are from the 90s.

and now I go monthly to the library just to rent books to read if not twice a month.

Is there a place to download high quality versions of book cover art? torrent or other.

>How often do you read?
>How long do you read? When do you stop?
>What position do you read in?
>Where do you read?
>If you read in the dark what kind of light do you use?
>Do you prefer reading physical books or reading off of an e-reader?
>Which do you read more often: fiction or nonfiction? What genre do you most often read?
>How do you keep your place for reading later? Dog ear, bookmark, none?
>Do you eat or drink while reading?
>Do you listen to music while reading?
>Do you read the back of the book? Do you read the introduction or the preface?
>Do you re-read books after you've read them once?
>Do you annotate on your books or do any kind of note-taking while reading?
>Do you prefer to own books or borrow them from the library?