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malinaldarose
1. Hardcover, paperback or other format?
Game rulebooks in hardcover (mostly, anyway); reference and general non-fiction in paperback; fiction as ebooks. Ebooks because if I acquire physical books at a high enough rate to keep me in reading material, there will be no room in the house within months.
2. Bookstore, library or other source?
Sadly, much of my buying these days is from Amazon. There are few to no other ways to get new ebooks in this country unless you go through Amazon. I've been getting some reference and non-fiction from the library lately, and I try to buy the non-fiction I want from actual bookshops. The fact that they can take weeks to get me something is unhelpful in the context of Amazon getting me stuff the following day for half the price, but I'm trying.
3. Place marking – how? Cracked spine or dogear?
These days, with the physical books, paper bookmarks. And by bookmarks I mean old train tickets, receipts, backing cardboard from packaging, old playing and CCG cards, and any other flat piece of paper that comes to hand. Some game rulebooks get sticky page tag things.
4. Keep pristine or annotate?
I love annotations in other people's books; I never got into the habit myself. I use notebooks instead; a "scratch" notebook for piecemeal notes, a "Miscellany" notebook for longer quotes. Or first one and then the other, depending on which notebooks are to hand.
5. Standalone or series?
Series, in preference. I love long-term continuity, so a good series does a lot more for me than a standalone ever will.
6. Non-fiction or fiction?
Both. My reading to relax, per se is fiction, but I read a reasonable amount of non-fiction in my areas of interest. In food & agricultural history, that's mostly in hard copy; for gaming it's almost all online.
7. Favourite tropes and genres?
Fantasy, for preference, although I read a bit of sf, some queer romance, a bit of what's now called Dark Academia, and I try every once in a while to read non-genre books, and wonder what the point is. In tropes, I like female or ungendered protagonists - at this stage, straight-white-male points of view are just boring - and the queerer the better. I like economics and agriculture and good worldbuilding; I like a sense that a world has history.
8. Adult fic or YA?
ABout 15-20% of what I read is YA, although I don't really distinguish much anymore. YA books tend to have better representation, so the female/queer/not-white-male protagonists I like crop up more.
9. Long or short books? Short stories?
Long books, generally. But ebooks don't have the physical feedback of the thickness of the book, so that's starting not to be a thing I can judge. I like short stories, but I don't read as many since I stopped buying the big Year's Best anthologies in hard copy. I should see if they're available as ebooks.
10. Read where?
Anywhere, everywhere.
11. Read when?
Evenings, mostly, these days, or when waiting for something, or on public transport.
12. Authors you'll always read?
Too many to name. T. Kingfisher, Barbara Hambly, Martha Wells, off the top of my head.
malinaldarose1. Hardcover, paperback or other format?
Game rulebooks in hardcover (mostly, anyway); reference and general non-fiction in paperback; fiction as ebooks. Ebooks because if I acquire physical books at a high enough rate to keep me in reading material, there will be no room in the house within months.
2. Bookstore, library or other source?
Sadly, much of my buying these days is from Amazon. There are few to no other ways to get new ebooks in this country unless you go through Amazon. I've been getting some reference and non-fiction from the library lately, and I try to buy the non-fiction I want from actual bookshops. The fact that they can take weeks to get me something is unhelpful in the context of Amazon getting me stuff the following day for half the price, but I'm trying.
3. Place marking – how? Cracked spine or dogear?
These days, with the physical books, paper bookmarks. And by bookmarks I mean old train tickets, receipts, backing cardboard from packaging, old playing and CCG cards, and any other flat piece of paper that comes to hand. Some game rulebooks get sticky page tag things.
4. Keep pristine or annotate?
I love annotations in other people's books; I never got into the habit myself. I use notebooks instead; a "scratch" notebook for piecemeal notes, a "Miscellany" notebook for longer quotes. Or first one and then the other, depending on which notebooks are to hand.
5. Standalone or series?
Series, in preference. I love long-term continuity, so a good series does a lot more for me than a standalone ever will.
6. Non-fiction or fiction?
Both. My reading to relax, per se is fiction, but I read a reasonable amount of non-fiction in my areas of interest. In food & agricultural history, that's mostly in hard copy; for gaming it's almost all online.
7. Favourite tropes and genres?
Fantasy, for preference, although I read a bit of sf, some queer romance, a bit of what's now called Dark Academia, and I try every once in a while to read non-genre books, and wonder what the point is. In tropes, I like female or ungendered protagonists - at this stage, straight-white-male points of view are just boring - and the queerer the better. I like economics and agriculture and good worldbuilding; I like a sense that a world has history.
8. Adult fic or YA?
ABout 15-20% of what I read is YA, although I don't really distinguish much anymore. YA books tend to have better representation, so the female/queer/not-white-male protagonists I like crop up more.
9. Long or short books? Short stories?
Long books, generally. But ebooks don't have the physical feedback of the thickness of the book, so that's starting not to be a thing I can judge. I like short stories, but I don't read as many since I stopped buying the big Year's Best anthologies in hard copy. I should see if they're available as ebooks.
10. Read where?
Anywhere, everywhere.
11. Read when?
Evenings, mostly, these days, or when waiting for something, or on public transport.
12. Authors you'll always read?
Too many to name. T. Kingfisher, Barbara Hambly, Martha Wells, off the top of my head.