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  • SinkPhaze@alien.topBtoBooks•Voracious but very particular reading habits as a child/teen.English
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    10 months ago

    As a child if there weren’t dragons I wasn’t reading it. There had to be a dragon in the title, on the cover, or in the text. That’s just how it was. I was particularly pleased when I would hit the trifecta and have all three, books like The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey or The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson. The first book I ever voluntarily read was about a boy and his dragon (Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville) and that was all it took to start that. That was my reading habit all the way up to HS and even then I’d say a good 50%+ of my reading was still dragons lol

    Even now tho I keep a fairly narrow reading habit but it shifts more often. So one year I read exclusively space operas and the next year I might be on urban fantasy. I really only step out of that if a friend tells me I really need to read xyz book. Right now I’m pretty much exclusively reading scifi that addresses AI in some form or another but a friend was asking me about Blood Meridian so I’m on the wait list at the library for it

  • SinkPhaze@alien.topBtoBooks•Continuing book after author dies?English
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    10 months ago

    Man, what i would give for a competent writer to pick up the Dragonriders of Pern lol. Like, theres so many story avenues left to be explored with the world post thread and cultural rediscovery as a colony planet. But then i suppose Pern is a bit more of an expanded setting than a trand sequential series

    …hey, anyone know any good fanfic that covers those topics?

  • SinkPhaze@alien.topBtoBooks•Is printing books worth it?English
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    10 months ago

    Hello, hi, it’s me 👋 I print out entire ebooks

    I also bind those prints in to bespoke hardcovers for my own personal shelf tho. I don’t just have binders of printed ebooks. Honestly, OPs dad sound old old. Thats the sorta thing my Grandfather would do. The piles of printed emails i had to go thru when he died. So many chain mails lol