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Apr. 1st, 2025 03:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicebentleyI'm often drawn to reading here, but rarely comment or (even more rarely) post. And I'd like to change that.
But I stutter to a stop trying to craft posts about work (surely only interesting to myself) or home dynamics (very stable, pleasant) or projects (haven't been doing gardening for more than a year).
This morning I realized that one activity I could easily spout out about is reading, which went from not very active, hardly more than a book a month or so, to three or four a week. The biggest instigator of that change is audiobooks, which I never really got into until last spring and The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I had read them all as hardcovers as they came out, but found that the audio adaptation read by Kevin R. Free bought a new level of enjoyment.
Changes at work also led to a better environment for listening to books - I might now spend as much as a third of my work day assembling models that I've become very familiar with, and can build swiftly and well without constant referral to Standard Operating Procedures.
Another audiobook series that prompted my listening change from "never" to "commonly" is Dungeon Crawler Carl, which had the perfect mix of entertaining, imaginative and, well, flighty - not something I have to pay close attention to - which lead to my binge-listening at every good opportunity.
It helps my budget that I make good use of the Libby app from the King County Library system - their selection is limited compared to the big audio suppliers, but there's enough to keep me busy and FREE is a very attractive price point. Better than free even, because I know the borrowing activity helps the library and the authors.
Today's audiobook, via Libby, is Babel by R. F. Kuang.
But I stutter to a stop trying to craft posts about work (surely only interesting to myself) or home dynamics (very stable, pleasant) or projects (haven't been doing gardening for more than a year).
This morning I realized that one activity I could easily spout out about is reading, which went from not very active, hardly more than a book a month or so, to three or four a week. The biggest instigator of that change is audiobooks, which I never really got into until last spring and The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I had read them all as hardcovers as they came out, but found that the audio adaptation read by Kevin R. Free bought a new level of enjoyment.
Changes at work also led to a better environment for listening to books - I might now spend as much as a third of my work day assembling models that I've become very familiar with, and can build swiftly and well without constant referral to Standard Operating Procedures.
Another audiobook series that prompted my listening change from "never" to "commonly" is Dungeon Crawler Carl, which had the perfect mix of entertaining, imaginative and, well, flighty - not something I have to pay close attention to - which lead to my binge-listening at every good opportunity.
It helps my budget that I make good use of the Libby app from the King County Library system - their selection is limited compared to the big audio suppliers, but there's enough to keep me busy and FREE is a very attractive price point. Better than free even, because I know the borrowing activity helps the library and the authors.
Today's audiobook, via Libby, is Babel by R. F. Kuang.
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Date: 2025-04-01 02:53 pm (UTC)I don't know whether/how lending ebooks to people who don't live in King County affects their budget, though. I'm trying to get more of my books from BPL, which I am helping fund, and then look at KCLS if BPL doesn't have them, or has a long waiting list for the book in question.
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Date: 2025-04-02 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-02 12:29 am (UTC)