What are you reading right now?

RednScarlet said:
Wife gave me her tablet that she no longer wanted to haul around.

Thought I would try out ebooks and lighten the load in my backpack.

Heck, I just got my first 'smartphone' 5 months ago...yea, I still wear a watch every day.

Discovered Zinio digital magazines through my local library.

Now I can catch up on some mags I would sometimes get:

Bicycle times and Bicycling

Canoe and Kayak

Outside and Backpacker

Nice addition to the ebooks, audio books, and freegal music they offer.

Couldn't find my copy of " King Rat " so stopped in at the main branch and checked it out.

( will always enjoy holding a book...)

Find that I need to reread it every 3 months or so, same with the Foundation Series by Asimov.

You can teach an old dog a new trick!
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I bought a Kindle three or so years ago. One of the best decisions I ever made. There are some functionality issues that would piss off a dedicated annotator, but if all you want to do is read and maybe highlight an occasional passage or two, it just makes sense to get an e-reader.

I'm contemplating a cross-country move in August, and one of the things that occurs to me every time I think about packing my books is that I could quite literally carry a library ten times the size of the one I have in my pocket. You can't really put a price tag on that kind of convenience. Probably not the right thread, but I think e-reading is the future of books. I prefer the Kindle design to a backlit tablet screen (Fire model, Ipad), but whatever floats your boat, it looks like a rapidly growing number of people are with me on that one.

Oh, and if anyone likes to read classics, you will literally recoup the cost of a low-end Kindle in about thirty minutes of clicking for free books. That's to say nothing about the (generally) reduced prices, daily deals, the monthly specials, the (frowned upon) possibility of torrenting, etc., etc.

There's a whole conversation to be had about the future of the publishing industry. Whatever that future looks like, as a reader I feel like I struck gold living in the here and now. Almost anything you want is a click away. No shipping. No bulk. No BS.

 
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So incredibly good so far, and I'm told that I haven't even gotten to the best parts of it.

I don't have a statistics background per se, but I do have an interest in stats and their proper acquisition, study, and usage as a result of a lot of biology study. Plus I'm really into sports, sports betting, poker, and stuff like that. This does a great job explaining common missteps regarding the use of statistics in various fields and applications, as well as some ways you can use data effectively. Sounds boring, but I promise you it is no textbook. Real-world examples from everything from finance, flu outbreaks, politics, chess, baseball... This book is a fantastic read.

 
Husker_x said:
Just (re)started Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I keep getting warned not to get my hopes up, that Gaiman is aces but this isn't his best book.

So far the protagonist has the personality of burnt toast. Best be patient, I guess.
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perhaps you meant milquetoast?

 
I'm currently reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. I've read The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and I've purchased Inferno, but I'm waiting to finish The Lost Symbol. Also on the list are Brown's novels Digital Fortress and Deception Point.

So far, The Lost Symbol has been OK in comparison to his other novels that I've read. Not as good but still enjoyable.

 
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I'm currently reading the William Gibson works. Started with Burning Chrome, went through the Sprawl series and the Bridge series and now I'm reading The Difference Engine. Good stuff, and he's a visionary writer, but it's funny sometimes to see how far off some of his predictions were. Faxes still being used 100 years from now? I'm guessing not. :D

 
knapplc said:
I'm currently reading the William Gibson works. Started with Burning Chrome, went through the Sprawl series and the Bridge series and now I'm reading The Difference Engine. Good stuff, and he's a visionary writer, but it's funny sometimes to see how far off some of his predictions were. Faxes still being used 100 years from now? I'm guessing not. :D
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What are these like/about, and what genre?

 
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"Midnight Assassin" (non-fiction)

On a moonlit night in December 1900, a prosperous Iowa farmer was murdered in his bed--killed by two blows of an ax to his head. Four days later, the victim's wife, Margaret Hossack, was arrested at her husband's funeral and charged with the crime. LINK

 
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NUance said:
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"Midnight Assassin" (non-fiction)

On a moonlit night in December 1900, a prosperous Iowa farmer was murdered in his bed--killed by two blows of an ax to his head. Four days later, the victim's wife, Margaret Hossack, was arrested at her husband's funeral and charged with the crime. LINK
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Is that the one with the haunted house now or am I thinking of something else?

 
Enhance89 said:
knapplc said:
I'm currently reading the William Gibson works. Started with Burning Chrome, went through the Sprawl series and the Bridge series and now I'm reading The Difference Engine. Good stuff, and he's a visionary writer, but it's funny sometimes to see how far off some of his predictions were. Faxes still being used 100 years from now? I'm guessing not. :D
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What are these like/about, and what genre?
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My bad. I spaced off this thread/comment.

Gibson's work is largely considered seminal in the cyberpunk genre. He coined such terms as "cyberspace" and generally came up with the concept of the internet 10-15 years before it became reality. They're dystopian sci/fi and I'd recommend them, even if some of his future predictions do seem out of date today.

 
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