I know a lot of people love and prefer audiobooks, but I just can't listen without getting distracted. Even when I go on my daily run, which seems like it would be perfect for audiobooks, I end up not really listening. The only time I've ever been able to enjoy audiobooks, is on a plane. Because there is literally nothing for me to do, and reading makes me sick on a plane.

My nighttime bedtime reader is a PocketBook InkPad Lite with 9.7-inch screen. It's got a large screen, and soft front light. I have so many, because I just like the tech, but I have talked myself out of buying anymore. I try to keep on a budget now. Well, except for today, I ordered a miniature phone sized e-reader called the Xteink X4. Now I'm done tho buying them though!

I mostly read fiction. Right now I'm reading Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien. It’s a post-apocalyptic survival fiction novel from the late 70s, told in first person by a teenage girl trying to survive on her own.

Yesterday, I just finished up reading Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, believe it or not! That girl is my spirit animal, because I talked just like she did when I was a kid. No wonder my parents would kick me out of the house and tell me to play outside as soon as I started talking about my day! 🤣

KOreader is a game changer when it comes to ebooks!! I have installed it on all the ebook readers I was able to. My main nighttime reader is a Pocketbook with KOreader. My fav opensource software ever.

You can globally change fonts, sizes, margins, linspacing etc, across all your installed books in one shot. I just read novels and short stories. No need for color or graphics or anything fancy, so global changes works out for me. The fact that every single book I read now has the exact specs I prefer for reading is amazing!

True, but I do stick to a huge amount of DRM-Free books that are offered legally, like Baen books, gutenberg, manybooks. For modern mainstream ones, I do buy the paperback version for my shelf, then do what I have to do to get the DRM-free version if you catch my drift. I want the author to be compensated. But when I buy something I want to own it for real, not license it.

But people the biggest consumers of ebooks are women and the genres are romance, light mystery, etc. That consumer target, buys via kindle, reads, deletes and on the the next one. I don't agree with Amazon donig what they are doing at all. But the vast majority of consumers just don't care. Which is how a lot of these sorts of things work. Frustrating for those of us who do care though!