Post by @francois
Do you read books, short or long ones?
Personally, I love reading! (
Currently I read "Star Trek: Enterprise", three books in one, in German.
I found it on a park bench, some days ago.
What I love about reading is that it sparks imagination, creating visuals in one's mind, the images being a bit different between each reader, no two being the same.
That's the beauty of reading, isn't it? ☺️
@openculture@toot.community
Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/why-americans-stopped-reading-books.html
A lot - roughly 2 books per week, and several newspapers every day (*).
A couple of years ago I decided to keep track and opened a BookWyrm account:
https://outside.ofa.dog/user/FrankAuLux
(also based on ActivityPub)
Mostly fiction those days.
But then I don't have any cable or TV subscription, so all I got is the local channel for the news.
When people binge on netflix series, I read my book with the radio on 😸
(*) feel free to try my system to avoid wasting time: https://francois.thunus.org/rss/NOD.php
@francois
Neat RSS-tool!
Well, I don't read that much and sporadically, during the last months and years.
Lately, I started reading more ebooks (Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes), as I want to get rid of nearly all my books.
@fasnix
yes, I love ebooks too, but for other reasons.
- The first one is of course that reading as fast as do, I would have to constantly transport loads of books (which is what I was doing when I was younger and I don't feel like going back to that).
- The second is the storage. Even having switched a while a go, I still had to get rid of thousands of books when I downsized recently.
- But the main one is probably that my sight is not what it used to be, so being able to get a bigger font is a real bonus.
- Another nice side feature of ebooks is the build-in dictionary. As I read in plenty of languages, having a dictionary at my fingertips is really nice.
I documented the process to create dictionaries for various ereaders here:
https://francois.thunus.org/dicos.htm
the ereader page is here:
https://francois.thunus.org/readers.htm
