#audio books physics

[otrtbs]

hello ! y’all give me ur favorite books ever so i can maybe check them out and read them maybe,,,👉🏻👈🏻

[storiesofsvu]

Bonus points for WHY! 👀👀✍🏻✍🏻

[islanddads]

if anyone is wondering how i’m doing with the uk release of somewhere beyond the sea being tomorrow i’m actually just rocking back and forth in my room waiting for an illumicrate shipping update that isn’t just “expects to ship september/october :)” LIKE HELLO THIS ISN’T A JOKE THIS IS MY LIFE

[neathdarkwcters]

🍏 tue, aug 13 / day 9 of my personal productivity challenge :) got my x-rays done, was nervous because it's a weird area to get a clear shot of on an x-ray table. also organized alot of my new work area and decorated for the rush of people coming in on thursday. 😵‍💫 tomorrow is a short day so i have time to prepare myself for the most people-ing i'll probably do all semester. i also checked Rate My Professor today. the professors i chose were all my only options, but i like to get a feel ahead of time... one of my professors doesn't wear shoes, and about half the reviews felt the need to mention it... he's rated very highly, though?

🪴 tasks completed today

2 recipes into my book

x-rays done and follow up scheduled

started my book

🌿 tasks left for today

weight lifting

currently reading Graceful by wendy mass

[newtness532]

how can they bring my books to my house on friday but i can go get them from the store on monday?

[flopsy-art]

what would you think if I (the fractured left overs of the dead god who created you) just stole your personhood so you could make me whole and also we made a mecha of roots and dirt and bone in order to fight the person who you love who is also trapped inside a giant mecha(s brain) would that be weird or no?

[vivacia-18]

I'm about halfway to two thirds through You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, and asdjasdlkajsadjal

The reveals, the implications, I can't even - mentally I'm rolling on the floor frothing at the mouth. I want to go back and listen to season 3 and season 1 all over again, holy shiiiiit

[raspbeare]

just finished re-reading little mushroom for the second time, and FINALLY after 3 reads i’m on tumblr looking for it

on a related note: seeing the array of new readers’ responses from “i’m finally going to read it! :D” “haha silly mushroom guy” to “what does it mean to be human.” “experienced the full spectrum of human emotion” is amazing and hilarious lmao! like yess the world building and cute little mushroom catches you, then BOOM. existentialism.

it’s so good.

[rosewind2007]

Some really fascinating data courtesy of the amazing @wyndlerunner who looked at the number of copies of the Murderbot Diaries series American libraries hold and the format they are in—so physical books, e-books or audio books.

This was inspired by the observation that their library had a LOT of audio copies of the books!

They got data from thirteen major libraries for the books All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect and Fugitive Telemetry; and partial data for System Collapse—total n=2407

I’ve thrown together some graphs—all errors are mine!

BUT I thought others might be interested—and yes! Audio is popular, especially in the partial data for System Collapse (70% of all copies are audio)

The traditional physical books are (and this graph doesn’t include SC data as I think it may balance out later) possibly surprisingly popular still, around 42% of all copies—except for All Systems Red! (also, as you can see from above, current incomplete data for System Collapse)

[otrtbs]

hi 👋 team !

[hopecomesbacktolife]

when you’re reading a book that’s already mostly bad less than halfway through so you go to check the reviews on storygraph and see lots of “the first half was better but the second half of the book was a letdown” “second half of the book brought down the rating on this one” “was so disappointed with the latter half of the book”

[molloytheboy]

Libby my new best friend libby my beloved

[veilk]

i wish house of leaves gave me less of a headache to read i want to reread it so fucking bad it's killing me. but good god.

[queer-reader-07]

unexpected side effect of getting into reading fic is that i usually read them at night so now I'm redeveloping my habit of reading physical books before i got to sleep at night, like i just casually read 5 chapters of a new book last night and i haven't done that in ages

[neil-jortson]

I cannot begin to describe my level of confusion rn