Where I spend my money instead of on poison

[RainbowHeart]

I try not to think of it as too many books 📚

Instead, it's not enough storage!

This pile is about 1/3 of my books. A third are actually in a bookcase, and a third are in plastic bins waiting for my second wind.

Anyway...if I'm ever wondering where my quit money has gone, I will just refer back to this picture:

 

[YoungAtHeart]

..and it could not have gone to a better place!

😁

[YoungAtHeart]

..except maybe to a Kindle.  I don't know what I'd DO now without mine.  Easy to carry anywhere, no need for bookshelf storage.  I thought I would miss the feel of a book in my hands, but got used to it quickly.  You can even remotely check books out of the library!  

[AnnetteMM]

I absolutely LOVE having piles of books to be read and organized! (I also love my Kindle, but it's just not the same, is it?)

[Metroguy]

@RainbowHeart Thanks for sharing this. I love reading posts that talk about money saved or money re-directed from being a former smoker. I saw "Feeling Good" in the pile of books. That particular read is one of my favs 🙂

John

[RainbowHeart]

@YoungAtHeartI have a Kindle that I use when traveling. But @AnnetteMM is right, half the fun of books is organizing them. My daughter pointed me to an app called "Storygraph" that you enter your books and then you can search "by mood". LOL, I liked that, for some reason. And I found "Feeling Good" at NAMI a few years ago @Metroguy , it is wonderful 🙂

[Patrick1234]

@RainbowHeart great pile of books!  I also collect books. I have two 6 foot shelves full of books. And another armoire with some books in it. There is a used book store near my house i buy books from. I also have a kindle I mostly read on that now. I have the stupid habit of buying a physical copy of a book ive read on kindle. So, im buying the book twice.

[RainbowHeart]

Thank you @Patrick1234 , there are a few favorite books that I have multiple copies of, and a few I buy, read to tatters, and then buy again. Some people have comfort shows, I have comfort books 📚

[Livebetter2023]

@RainbowHeart I love this!  If you’re looking for a new book to read, I really enjoyed The Measure by Nikki Erlick.  I haven’t read Feeling Good.   I will have to check it out!

[Wozlik]

I’m kind of sorry I found this conversation.  I loved to read.  I had a library of probably a couple thousand books.  The grandkids thought I lived in a library.  It was marvelous.  Then, when I got Covid in March 2020 I couldn’t read.  Words didn’t make sense. Sentence’s didn’t go together.  One daughter said, “Mom, it’s like you caught dyslexia and ADHD.  I cried about it for a long time.  After about 6 months I found I could read large print on the Kindle, as long as there wasn’t much “meat” involved.  I kind of stick to young adult fiction or fantasy 🥴.  I have given away most of my library.  I may have 100 books left, maybe less.  Every now and then I manage to read a physical book.  In 2021 I read a Frederick Bachman book that I really enjoyed.  I was solo primitive camping in the woods for 10 days.  Last year I read a book about living the Reiki way.  I read a book in July while camping at a music festival, but I can’t remember anything about it 😳 other than the weight of it in my hands and the dust jacket was grey.  So celebrate all that reading.  I’m celebrating that I have begun to be able to write/type again.  And I hope I’m celebrating more in 3 months when the personal trainer I’m paying for with $$ saved on my forever quit has made me stronger. 🚭🙏🏽✌🏾

[RainbowHeart]

I'm so glad you can write again. I'm just coming out of a far too long span of time when I didn't read at all really. I kept all my books in storage though, because my books have always been my friends. I listened to audiobooks during my commute, but maybe actually read 5 physical books in as many years. Something I thought of when you mentioned dyslexia, what helps me is to use two bookmarks to cover the lines of text above and below the line I'm currently reading. It slows you down quite a bit, but it helps a lot with making sense of the jumble of letters a whole page wants to be.

Sorry for the wall of text, a quick p.s. - I love Frederick Bachman. I've loved every book ever. And a recommendation, the last name is Towles, I can't quite remember the first name, maybe Amor? A Gentleman in Moscow is a wonderful book but like Bachman I don't think they're capable of writing a bad book 📚

I hope you make a full recovery very soon. Doing everything you can to be healthy is so good. 

[Wozlik]

@RainbowHeart   I agree about Bachman.  Even with the black holes in my brain that get in the way of remembering specifics, I can remember the feelings and my investment in his too human characters.  I think the first one I remember reading is My Grandmother Asked Me ToTell You.  The last one I read was about a bank robber who wasn’t..l ♥️🚭