What book(s) are you reading right now?

[IndigoGolem]

I'm still reading Lord of the Rings and Journey to the West, and more recently i've started The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder, Gesture: A Slim Guide by Lauren Gawne, and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

I've been vaguely aware of Monte Cristo for a while but only started reading it after i found out Librivox has RSS feeds for audiobooks so i can listen to them in my phone's podcast app. I think i've yet to get to the really good parts, but it's still fine so far.

Gawne's book is more technical than a lot of what i read, but not unapproachable. She's definitely not afraid to use big words or assume people reading a somewhat niche linguistics book already have some background in linguistics.

The LCK is more of a manual or guide and i'm making my way slowly through it. I don't yet have much to say about it.

LotR is still good. I like Tolkien's writing.

Journey to the West can be slow at times but it's not too bad, and it does have interesting parts.

[Null]

I recently read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and I really enjoyed it. I've always enjoyed good worldbuilding, and this one is pretty interesting. For a book written in the 1930s, it makes a few predictions that have sort of come true. I really enjoyed reading it because it's one of those books that you really have to analyze to fully understand. 
I actually wrote an essay about it for my English class, and luckily, I was able to convince my teacher to up the maximum word count from 1200 to 2000 for me 
Anyway, I suggest reading Brave New World, because when I like media I always try to get others into it as well. I guess it's human nature or something, I don't know, insert philosophical statement here I guess
Thanks for reading my ramblings :)

[Kiko!]

Recently I've tapped into a suppressed and dormant interest in books that has always been there with me, but was unachievable due to my ADHD. Now that I've gotten on a medication that works for me, I can actually read! And I love to read. 

Yeah, my excessive phone usage had given me neurodivergent tendencies, specifically executive dysfunction. I used to love to read when I was younger an the love never died it's just, one day I just couldn't bring myself to start reading anymore. I would want to read but I wouldn't. I had stopped reading for like 3 years until I had decided to finally pick up a book after like 4-5 months after quitting short for social media apps. My love has re-sparked and I've been on a reading high, although reading slower than I should be because even though I enjoy most of the books I read, picking up a book and staying focused is still difficult.

I have just finished reading "She is Always Hungry" by Eliza Clark, it has been my favorite thing I've read ever since I've started reading again. It's a collection of short stories with each being similar. The narrators or characters of the stories are hungry for something, whether that be for food, for love, or for pain. If you want to check it out, please look up the trigger warnings, it's pretty grotesque but that's just what I love about it. The writing is hilarious and ironic. Some stories don't even try to take themselves serious. Other stories are tragic. It's a treat, I highly recommend it if you are into that sort of thing.

My next eBook read will be "Beware of Pity" by Stefan Zweig. It sounds pretty interesting and like what I'm currently into so I'm very excited but I'm sort of dragging my feet to start for no particular reason ahaha.

[Kiko!]

...i'm rereading the Lord of the Rings in between borrowing other books from the library. Or i was, until i got an ereader and now i have a comfortable way to read everything on Project Gutenberg.

What ereader do you have, and how do you manage to get books from websites like this. I don't really like my Kindle and how Amazon runs it but I am against the idea of getting a new one when I have a perfectly good Kindle. I don't like spending unnecessary money. But morally, my soul is crying every time I buy a book from Amazon. :,(

[IndigoGolem]

What ereader do you have, and how do you manage to get books from websites like this.

After looking into a bunch of modern ereaders i decided i just want something simple that works and doesn't have a million extra features (also true of every electronic device i buy (or haven't bought because i can't find a simple one)). So i got a used Sony PRS-505 (discontinued 2009). It's not perfect but it's fine for most books (barring PDFs with tiny text or one really large book that crashes it). Plus it was about the same price as a not-super-old Kobo ereader.

As for putting books on it, it's very simple. I go to Project Gutenberg (https://gutenberg.org), download a book as an .epub file, and then plug my ereader into my laptop with the USB-mini cord it came with. It opens like any storage drive, i make a folder for the author (optional, to keep things organized), and copy the dowloaded .epub over. When i unplug the ereader it scans its internal storage and SD card for new books and adds them to the list.

I've never owned a Kindle so i don't know if it supports just plugging it into a computer and copying a file over.

I don't really like my Kindle and how Amazon runs it but I am against the idea of getting a new one when I have a perfectly good Kindle. I don't like spending unnecessary money. But morally, my soul is crying every time I buy a book from Amazon. :,(

See if there's some way to borrow ebooks from your local public library and download them straight to your Kindle, like Overdrive or Libby.

I also have heard you can use Calibre to convert your ebooks from Amazon's proprietary format to a regular, DRM-free epub in case you ever do get a non-Amazon ereader.

You could try to jailbreak your Kindle if you want to be able to sideload extra apps, mess with fonts and screensevers, etc. But that's not something i know anything about.

[fablefound]

TIL you can jailbreak ereaders. that sounds so cool, to be honest... though i've only hacked my old nintendo dsi and 3ds, so i also have no real idea what that'd entail 

anyways, obligatory lit update from yours truly: i have two discworld books left and when i finish this series i may be inconsolable. besides that, i'm also reading undine, the old french tale about a water spirit. it's really quite different from what i'd expected. like carmilla, it falls squarely into this box in my head labelled "could be cool to write a retelling someday but i'll probably never get around to it" lol.