A Reading Habit
I've always been an avid reader, but I've taken it up a notch recently. I've read 36 full-length novels so far in 2025 with a little over 2 months remaining in the year. I follow a few people who have blown by that number, but I'm happy with it considering my lifestyle (dad of two, primarily).
My reading is almost exclusively at night, while and after putting the kids to bed. I've been reading on a current generation Kindle Paperwhite. I know they recently made some user unfriendly changes concerning ownership/exporting of purchased books, but I rarely if ever actually purchase a book as I prefer libraries.
For many years, I used the Libby/Overdrive integration to borrow books from our local library. Unfortunately, our library system recently migrated away from Libby to CloudLibrary. To put it simply, CloudLibrary is awful. It is an ebook provider that does not work with Kindles. While they claim to work with other hardware, you have to jump through a lot of hoops. Your only option, natively, is to use a smartphone or tablet. Even if I was happy to do that, the app is terrible.
ℹ️ If you're determined, you can use a convoluted mess of Adobe Digital Editions and Calibre to skirt some of the restrictions.
My genre of choice is Historical Fiction with no particular focus. World War II is always a popular choice, but I've also been drawn to the Napoleonic Wars, the Israel/Iran mess, King Alfred's time, and a few one-off random things.
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