Reading

I love reading books.. I read books especially if its being recommended by my friends. Exploring new books also is fun....

Years ago before Amazon and technically downloading books to what ever device we have now; I would go to the used book store and check them out by title, reading the description on the back and maybe a few pages. Also I would pull them by the author, description on back and reading a few pages. Now I get 99.9% of my reading material downloaded to my phone from Amazon. I type in the subject matter like 'historical romance' 'time travel' 'Amish romance' or 'mystery thrillers'. When the books come up I just scroll until I find an interesting title. I can read the description, and the first few pages of the book. It has worked pretty well. I have gotten a few lemons but that use to happen at the book store and library too. I'll tell you what I have learned by downloading. I make sure I'm not getting a 'Novella' I hate those things. You pay for pages, I mean literally pages. That's all the book consists of is about 60 pages a few more or a lot less. I saw one that only had 26 pages. I don't even want one of those for free. Some are pretty good and that's what makes them so bad. They have all this potential and you only get minuets of what could have been a fantastic story.

It's a combination for me. If friends happen to mention the great book they are reading, I find out more and if it sounds like something I would get into. Sometimes, it's specific author's work. If I'm looking at ebooks,I watch the recommendations that come up based on my searches. If I'm looking at regular books in online stores, I watch the "other customers have bought this also" or "you might also be interested in" as well as the personal reviews on the book I am looking at. I shop the thrift stores for books a lot. In that case, really different intriguing covers always seem to catch my attention. I check out what it's about and maybe even read a few pages to get a feel for the writing style if it is an unfamiliar author to me. These usually work. It's very rare that I end up with a book I don't like.

All of the above. I like recommendations from friends, but some of my friends read very different books than I do. But I read the Fifty Shades trilogy because of a friend's recommendation recently, so that was good. But sometimes my friends suggest books that I know I could never get into (romance or historical fiction - BIG YAWN!). Other times I generally just try out new authors, or continue reading some of my favorite authors (James Patterson & Lisa Gardner & Tami Hoag are my favorite crime novel writers - check them out if that genre interests you!). There are always more books to read. I find them at the thrift store normally for like $1 or less per book - it's a pretty awesome deal!

I have several favourite authors, and I tend to make my first selections from those. Next, I'll go on friends' recommendations - it's how I came to read '50 Shades of Grey,' and I'm so glad I did. Finally, if I have nothing else to go on, I'll read the cover blurb, and make my selection that way.

I choose the book not primarily by its cover but for me it's the contents that really matters. Something which I'm interested. I like to buy old, worn-out books as long as it's in mint, readable condition.

I love reading, and there are many ways that I might choose a book. Sometimes when I don't have anything to read I will just go to a library and pick up a book at random and start to read it just to see if I like it. I have found many amazing books using this method, so it is something that I would recommend. You have to know when to stop reading if the book is annoying you though, as it can be hard to give up on one. I always listen to things that my friends and family have said as well; if they've enjoyed a book I will give it a go as they often have the same kind of tastes as me.

I choose the book to read myself. Although I receive some advices from friends on the books that they have read, most of the time I will find out that their taste or preferred genre is not suitable to my own preference. What I usually do is I search on the net for reviews about books on a particular subject or plot that I want, I make a list then I check the book out by reading a couple of pages. If I like how the author plays with the plot and constructs it, then I will read it.

Not only the t but i read few pages, and i go a lot by who the author is. ASome writers are good story tellers and others not.Also the type of book it is western, adventure,romance. Then it depends on the mood im in.