We’re lucky as RVers because we have the opportunity to read often, and read often in beautiful places across the country. There’s almost nothing better than pulling into a new campsite with a beautiful view, grabbing a book, and plopping down with a beverage of choice and spending some time in a new story in a new place. Do you agree?
Do you typically have a genre you always read, or do you branch out and read different things? Do you usually find yourself reading more fiction or non-fiction books? Or is it about the same?
Tell us in the poll below, and if you have any book recommendations, please leave them in the comments. Thanks!
I am more intrigued by the result that 14% of respondents don’t read books.
Schools quit teaching reading, writing and and what ever that other thing is.
Sadly true, Russ.
I’m in that club because I prefer electronic print and consider books as obsolete as scrolls.
Books take up weight and space, require external light to read and their font size can’t be adjusted. Obviously books don’t need a recharge like a Kindle or tablet but that’s not enough of a plus to steer me back to them.
Now if the poll considers electronic print and books the same thing, I share your intrigue on that percentage.
I like ebooks for the reason you state, but what I don’t like is that they are not really mine– I can’t sell them and I can leave them to my kids. My late mother-in-law had thousands of hardbacks and paperbacks and at least 1000 ebooks. The real books are now sitting in my basement awaiting donation, sale or shelving; the ebooks are gone.
I answered the question considering physical paper books and any kind of e-books to be the same. I have off loaded several big boxes of paperbacks as my wife loaded all these and more on to her iPad; her historical romance library is now over 300 books (and growing).
I read non-fiction downloaded to my computer, or listen to books on podcasts.
Interesting that the majority finds their escape in fiction or not reading at all. I escape reading real history, not the PC kind that they are feeding the kids now days. Sad. Teach a false narrative and those who believe it true will be less able to accurately discern truth in the future.
I have spent my entire life reading books! Up until a few years ago, most of my pleasure reading has been fiction of different genres. These days mostly travel books and biographies of presidents…reading bios of early presidents, it’s amazing America survived! We are bound to repeat history if we don’t remember or we’re never taught it! A book is a book whether it’s electronic or hard copy, but it is true that ebooks are not really our possessions…we have ‘leased’ them and when the account is closed, the books disappear. They can’t be transferred to another generation after death. Apparently keeping the account open is the only way for others to have access to purchased ebooks.
I’m not sure that the next generation really wants a hard copy book. They can use the electronics of this new world to access any book that they want. If one wants to impart the information for a particular book to the next generation, just leave them a note as to which book inspired you and why you feel it may be important to them. We have thrown away 2 sets of encyclopedias because both libraries and recycle would not take them. We have had to toss other types of books for the same reasons. I’m afraid that when we die there will be a dumpster full of books when our house is cleaned out.
Mine too, it’s a shame.
I definitely consider ebooks and print books the same. A book by any other name….. Whenever I travel, by plane or RV, my ereader makes it easy. I am a voracious reader, so a plane trip requires 2-4 books each way. That’s a lot of weight and bulk, even in PB. Ereader gives me basically unlimited number of books in just ounces. Since I’ve always been a library user, not having the physical copy to pass on is not an issue. Anyplace I have a wifi signal I can borrow a new ebook from my local library via Overdrive
I got the impression from many of the respondants that they do not consider ebooks to actually be books.
Folks, reading ebooks is the same as reading physical books.
Currently, I prefer historical non fiction books.
I respect that but like others, I differentiate between the two for many reasons just like one might do for fuel. Diesel and gasoline share a common function in the combustion chamber but are vastly different from each other in properties. Neither are interchangeable but both have their pros/cons.
Several fiction in different genres. I’d rather have it in paper copy. Thus this makes the run to the recycle center great to turn back a book I’ve read and snag another one or two books. I was a book hoarder with collectors books bought throughout my tours in Europe and the US but parted ways with them after moving boxes and tonnage across country and my kids don’t want them. Though my daughter took Grimms fairy tales, Gone With The Wind and some others. But glad they’re gone along with that aged smell.
I prefer non-fiction, especially world and American history, geography and adventure, but I’m now reading titles from the list of banned books.
Hubby and I are both voracious readers. We don’t have, or want television. We have our laptops and Kindles to keep us happy.
Interesting that some think (or say they think), teaching today is not PC. But they are in fact stating a political statement. But maybe they aren’t correct so Just a bunch of “P”
I like “historical fiction”, so it’s kind of in the middle…
It doesn’t matter the method, e-books or physical books. I don’t read ‘books’ I read stories. I love my Kindle. I read murder mysteries mostly. Fantasy, SciFi. People who read a book every day cannot carry that many books with them. Between my home base library and Amazon I can read to my hearts content and not add an ounce to my cargo
We listen to audio books while driving and bring books, AARP magazines, Rvlife magazines for reading while camped. And we will read a book over watching television any day. Even been known to not read Rvtravel for couple weeks, read while camped.
While I read more fiction than non-fiction, I still expect factual information on which the fiction is based to be accurate, or the author in some way give me a hint when factual information is being altered for the benefit of the story. Fictional characters placed in a historic setting is a case in point.
As a kid I read every how to build a birdhouse, or build a go cart book there was. Dick and Jane , as short as it was, just put me to sleep. Every night I read one of the many specialty magazines that I subscribe to. I read many required books throughout school and cannot remember a one of them except Catcher In The Rye and have no Idea what it was about. I just know that my teacher did not like my book report because of my spelling. I had to prove to her that both “phony” and “phoney” were correct spellings. (raised my grade from a “D” to a “B”)
I read non-fiction almost exclusively as l have a history degree and a basement full of books I collected while working. I read a chapter a night to make them last and give me time to cogitate on what I’ve read.
I had to say I read non-fiction the most. That is because what I read most are theology, philosophy, and history books.