Seriously guy, quit with this shit. Let people like shit and have access in the way they want it without having to wonder if they’re going to be called out as fake fans. We have enough of hard time getting people into reading in the first place, without having to deal with shit like this on top of it.

You can listen…

It’s a shitty high-horse opinion that separates “real readers” and “fake readers” so you can feel good about that book you read this year. 

Correct. I am telling you that as a professional librarian of over a decade, with the degree and knowledge to back it up. You’re confusing container and content, and pretending that preferring physical books is the only way to go about it. Stop that shit.

Yes. If you sat through children’s hour, or only listened to audiobooks, I would consider you a fan of reading, books, and literature on a whole. Books are the physical containers (carriers in metadata speak), the information is what it contains (content in the same). Trust me, it’s not about the format but the…

Yes, I’ve watched a ton of sports. Never liked a single bit of it. Watched people play video games in arcades and on couches, also never much like that.

It’s fine to not like this as well, and not understand why people do like it. As long as your not casting stones, do your own thing.

True, he’s welcome to it. I just prefer being pedantic and right, to being pedantic and possibly right based on information that was unsaid and unable to be inferred.

And you are correct, that some people pay taxes that go to the library to help fund it, doesn’t actually mean they pay for services rendered later.…

We used the BPL during MLS classes to talk about stakeholders, and our group project involved mapping them out prospectively for a project involving underserved populations. It was my first experience with Boston libraries, and I’m madly impressed. Yall have your own music librarian, who is an actual composer. I’m…

We have two libraries here in Jonesboro, Arkansas, both of which do their damnedest to serve their communities well. Our local public library holds tons of events, exercise classes, planetarium, board game nights, music on the lawn, craft shows, and million other things to both help the community and keep them…

Psychodog didn’t state what type of library he was speaking of. There’s several different types of libraries, only one or two of which get your local taxes. So I’m giving him benefit of the doubt and going with his statement until proven otherwise.

That is very true. It’s not the glamorous stuff you see in movies, or the Brent Weeks works (awful, just awful). I think she did well to show what it would cost him (Chade), and followed through with it.

Totally fair IMO. Authors have been doing that for decades and decades. Any trilogy written continuously is effectively a single really long novel broken into three parts.

It is a hard start, it’s not just you. While I like the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, it pales in comparison to her other works, Dreamblood Duology and Fifth Season. If I had a to pick, I’d probably offer Dreamblood Duology as a starting point for new readers over Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. But really I love everything…

I’ve read that too, loved it when I was younger. It doesn’t hold up very well as I’ve aged though. I couldn’t finish a reread I attempted a few months back.

Or my Jennifer Fallon and Trudi Caravan? V. E. Schwab and Susan Cooper? Leguin?

That’s because she literally is one of the best in the business. I have yet to turn someone on to Hobb’s works that did not enjoy them, often falling in love with them too. 

West is definitely a fantastic author. I reread some of her works every few years.

This. Do not skip the first stuff for the latter.

It’s much better than the extension even, but does require a bit of manual searching. There’s a place for both of them.

You will not be disappointed.

Or both. People get very prickly about books, the physical nature of them, in a way that doesn’t often make sense. Even people who don’t visit libraries or collect them.