#paperbooks

[beautifulsoul247]

Two reads starting for this year polar opposites but I’m diverse like that & I cannot believe Gracie’s title lol but that’s so real & I have a feeling BOTH books are exposing the business & I’m ready to get lost in them soon the Bible is still the most consistent book I aim to read daily (sherlyleeralphDIVAbook) #diversereads (updated 9/29/24)

[omelettemyu]

That long-standing debate

[engagemythrusters]

i think the "character from futuristic society reads only paper books bc they're quirky and different" trope is stupid as fuck bc it's not really... a thing we even do now.

sorry, but I don't know of ANYONE in this era who goes out of their way to only read things from traditional vellum. and if they were, it's generally not because they're "not like other girls" or whatever...

[downthetubes]

Next issue of Paperbook Fanatic on course for release this month

The latest issue of The Paperback Fanatic, edited and published by Justin Marriott since 2007, will be published by the end of November

[gae-ta]

problem isn't that people don't know shit, it's that they think they know shit

[trusoulchristmas]

[megankoumori]

Amazon's new printing and royalty policy has forced me to increase my price on "Moon Face and the Dragons." Internet says a typical paperback goes for about $9.99; for now, I'm offering it at $8.75.

I'm extremely grateful for any and all support I get! Thank you!

[alceste99]

#portrait #Ka #dessin #acrylicandink #paperbook #helenecamus https://www.instagram.com/p/Cou4LVSIJKU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[renrappinghood]

#coffeewithaspoon #paperbook #hardbackbooks #reading #spare not #heir (at Grampian Coffee House) https://www.instagram.com/p/CochP1aqZ-FKuGuEym2l16BZrPQ_5y_PmgOxQc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nasykuching]

Have you seen ORV taiwanese paperbook? They had a galaxy themed wedding

[allpiesforourown]

you know what fuck it !! i'll channel my inner "erotic paperbook novel in the 90s with an oil painting cover" and write a beast peak disciple shen yuan monsterfucker fic

[luci-in-trenchcoats]

Somebody got a lil glow up... before and after!

The new Paperbook version (only a cover change) is now live!

Everything I Need

[magicalrocketships]

Books!! Thanks to @officialmood for the tag :)

An estimate of how many physical books I own: Me, staring at my bookcases and doing an estimate per shelf x number of shelves... maybe 500? (and if you include ebooks, then there are 304 books in my to read folder and 339 in my read and keep folder). AND I did a big clear out before I moved last year. And took four bags to the charity book shop earlier this year. I cycle a lot of second hand books in and out tbh.

Favorite author: There are loads of favourite books and I could pretty much go on about most of the books on my shelves, but I think I could continue to lose myself in Lois McMaster Bujold's books over and over and over again. I know that Georgette Heyer books are very much Of Their Time but it is also true that if I ever need a comfort read then I know what to reach for.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: Godddddddddd. Liza said Infinite Jest and I also have zero intention of ever reading this. But SO MANY.

A popular book I thought was just meh: Red, White, and Royal Blue. I did not get along with Wolf Hall, but I also didn't get that far into it before giving in.

Longest book I own: Toss up between the Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle volumes, War and Peace, Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree (although I've lent this out and probably won't get it back), and Victoria Goddard's Hands of the Emperor / At The Feet of the Sun. They're all pretty chunky, without doing any specific investigation.

Longest series I own all the books to: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series (approx 62 books, depending on which editions you own). After that, Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series.

Prettiest book I own: I don't own any where the cover is the prettiest thing I've ever seen, but I do own a queer historical photography book where together the inside and out is the prettiest visual history. Some of my books are v pretty because of the way they make me feel, but that's a different question.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Maybe Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard? There's a core few of us that feel a lot about it. One of my very oldest internet friends that I haven't seen in years sent me a package earlier in the year that was just a notebook that had reminded her of this book and therefore it was a necessity to share it with me (she was right to do this). I also kind of want more people to talk to about Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea series.

Book I’m reading now: I'm listening to Jingo by Terry Pratchett, have just picked up the second Sandman volume, and I'm partway through Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield (although I realised last night that it was too creepy for me to read in bed, lollllllll)

Book that’s been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven’t gotten around to it: BRB just going to stare into an invisible camera, my goodreads to read pile is 462 books long and is only made up of stuff that I own / once owned and is probably not up to date with paperbacks. Let's say The Simarillion, because I've probably intended to read that since I was a kid (and have not yet managed it). I've read 133 books so far this year and yet my to read pile never gets any fucking smaller.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: Nope. I used to own some HP books in German and Latin but I did not keep them. I am not very good at languages, although me and the Duolingo owl are trapped in a daily standoff.

Paperback, hardcover or ebook?: Mixture of all three. Love a good paperback but I am... gently allergic to paper, so sometimes if I've read too many paper books my hands pay the price, and on the whole I do believe that skin should stay on my body, where I've put it, rather than peel off and bleed. A healthy mix of ebook and paperbook in general, with the odd hardback.

People have probably already done this, but tagging @junkshop-disco, @magog83, @dearmrsawyer, and @pennyplainknits.

[girlbob-boypants]

you reminded me that the library i went to when i lived in the city had a bin where you can buy paperbooks for five cents and i opened one to check it out and had to read the lines "he rubbed her breasts, her nipples feeling neglected and like puppies begging to be petted" or something like that and it still makes me cackle when i randomly remember it. no i didnt buy anything <3

SHUT UP THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF IS THAT KIND OF STUFF

[aemarling]

I’m dancing-on-photons happy to reveal the cover by Rita Fei for my upcoming solarpunk novel, Murder in the Tool Library. You can pre-order it on this site as well as on some more mainstream ones. The paperbook will be available on Barnes and Noble closer to the release date on Dec 8th.