Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

Project Gutenberg started up in 1971. However many.dod not start reading online until the 2000s and then another group until during the pandemkc. Does all this ebook reading and eaudio book listening signal the death of the book? Maybe we don't too much care. Some of us like being spared the teip to the library.

I use Kindle Unlimited, Scribd, and library services. I also use audiobooks posted to You Tube. The convenience is alluring. The TBR lengthens. It is the life of a reader.

Do you use eservices and how do you use them?

I’m a big fan of Project Gutenberg and the work they’ve done to digitize classics and out of copyright books. I also love my Kindle app and audiobooks, but if you stopped by my house, you would find lots of physical books as well. So many choices for readers! I particularly like physical books for classes and books I need to make notes on — they just work better for me for studying and reviewing.

I use Storytel a lot, specially for audiobooks but I have around 1000 physical books at home and loan from my library. Physical remains my preferred format, specially if I want to own the book.

I too get most of my ebooks from Project Gutenberg and our local library. I just love the conveniences ebooks offer. I also love the text-to-speech feature of some ereaders, especially when reading really long books (War and Peace, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, etc.).

Project Gutenberg blocked Germany a few years ago, due to some copyright issues. I never bothered to check back in. Is it open again in Germany? Have to check.

I used to have a lot of physical books, but eventually stored them and then gave them away, when I started moving a lot for work. Then I lived in countries where I had very limited access to physical books in English and ordering them resulted in my parcels getting lost a lot of the time.

So my preferred medium are ebooks. My audio consumption has also gone up quite a lot in recent years.

It used to be Amazon and Audible, because their catalogue is simply the best. I still use both, but I am trying to reduce. I buy ebooks from German booksellers as well now, as long as the price difference to Amazon is not crazy. I also look for other alternative sources.

For audio I use Libby a lot and I also started to use Storytel. The unlimited version is pretty expensive though in Germany. Still, unlimited! 😏

I love Kindle Unlimited, and I also borrow ebooks from the library. My library uses Borrow Box rather than Libby. I don't know if that's a British thing or just my library. I am hearing impaired, so I don't have Audible or get audiobooks out of the library.

Project Gutengerg is awesome too. I don't read on it much, but I might have to change that!

Oh, yes, I currently have 3 free months of KU. I always keep my eyes peeled for those free periods, as I am not paying for KU—there is not enough content there that I really want to read. I have an extra KU list for those free times.

I use Libby for ebooks and audiobooks, but my house is full of paper books too. I always have more than one book going at a time, in different formats.

Melanie, Kindle Unlimited is becoming a real resource, isn't it! After the local library system stopped using Hoopla, I restarted Kindle Unlimited. It has a growing list of options.