I have had that problem but it isn't that I want to put the book down, I want to wiz through to see what happens.

When that happens I will often start the book over once I've finished it. I often pick up little items that I missed while just trying to get to the end.

As a mature woman (74) I find audiobooks the same as reading. I like fiction stories. Often there are a number of characters. Keeping them straight is a bit harder in Audio than print form because it is a bit harder to go back and double check.

I have read that following action and characters in books is good brain exercise.

Since I am often knitting while I listen to a book it adds a bit of a challenge, but I want to keep my brain working well

Those are just great.

An eReader is a life saver.

I'm older and downsized a year ago. I've had a Kindle for ages but still bought books. When It was time to move from 2400sq ft. to under 1000 I knew I had to so something.

I only kept special books. I have a few 1st editions, some that were my grandma's and have some books that are so old they aren't available on Kindle or Audible and my cookbooks, though I went through those.

When you browse your book stores and find interesting books, take a pic of the cover and get the eBook. I know it isn't the same but now I have room for all of my books and can add to them without worry about where I will put them.

My TBR is long but unpurchased. That make it all the nicer.

I am a bear about keeping books in categories. I even have one labeled ICK since I like to reread and there is noting more aggravating than downloading a book and it isn't the one I think it is.

It all depends on why I am reading a non-fiction book. I much prefer a good fiction since I am not longer reading for school.

There was a time when I read a lot about finance. I had to make some decisions at work regarding benefits and I wanted to be well informed. I used the old yellow marker in those books. They belonged to me and I still occasionally check them out.

I went years without reading non-fiction and then my daughter suggested Quiet:: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't stop Talking by Susan Cain. I got it in audiobook and just loved it. I've known for years I was an introvert and suspected as much about my son. I could see us both in places in that book.

I have trouble putting books down when I am really into them. I'll flip back to a logical start of something happening instead of just jumping in.

I love to read books more than once. When I do that I don't usually go back as far.

I would think since no one is making any money and you are doing for yourself it wouldn't be any different that recording a TV show to be watched later or even a movie to be watched a number times in the future.

I have thought about doing that with some older books that aren't on eBook or Audible. The poor paperbacks are falling apart and some can't even be purchased any longer.

Some of my friends have written stories and shared them with me. Kindle has an app or had one anyway (it still shows up on my computer but I haven't used it in a few years) that your could upload a document onto your Kindle. I have a number of my friends stories. They aren't professional writers but like to write and I like what they have written. It is simpler to carry my Kindle around that a bunch of papers I've printed off my laptop.

Yes the author was writing it and posting to his blog. A lot of people wrote him and asked him to put it no Amazon as a self-written book. I understand it was harder to download from his blog.

He redid parts of it and posted it on Amazon.

When I bought it for my Kindle I paid 99 cents.

Not long after that the price whet up and everything went crazy.

Keep trying on Lord of The Rings. It is an amazing series, different in places from the movies.

The Martian was originally a web novel.

Reading fiction is not a waste of time. I have a good vocabulary but I run into words I don't know. Can usually figure them out, but I always look them up to be sure.

One of the biggest advantages of reading is that it exercises your mind. Read fantasy or sci-fi and keep characters straight. Have you tried A Clockwork Orange or Lord of The Rings.

It allows your imagination to take you places you've never been. The Pern books are a whole world filled with interesting characters.

A lot depends on how well the book is written. Most of my life I was a romance fan, but not the gooy, silly female ones.

When my marriage was breaking up I recovered murder mysteries. My favorite author was Connley. I read some Sandelforth but his books seemed to repeat themselves.

Now I am a huge fan of books about women during WWII in Europe. I look for ones based on real events. I have read some excellent one and some really stupid ones. I won't bother with the authors of the stupid ones again.

Those books all have women doing unusual, for them, and important things. These women were doing men's work while the men were away fighting and dying.

Two of my favorite are The Rose Code and The Girl With No Name.

Very different books Rose Code is about the female codebreakers and the The Girl With No Names is about a young German Jewish girls who is put on the Kindertransport and her life in England after that. both are good for different reasons

Though none of them fall under the category of horror unless you consider what Hitler was doing horror.

When I get that feeling, I pick up the book and read it all over again. I always find something I've missed and it helps fill the hole.

Have you checked eBay for a used Paperwhite. I have had mine since they first came out and they are much easier on the eyes.

Isn't the Fire like an iPad that has back lighting?

I used to read a lot of fanfiction, even wrote some.

Kindle has an app that allows you to upload documents onto the eReader. Last time I used it it was free. I could read my fanfiction right out in public without having people think the old lady had finally gone around the bend. I have always been embarrassed that I read it.

This doesn't really answer your question, but you are reading and that is what is important. There are some good FF authors out there. Andy Weir started out that way with The Martian.

The Martian was on his site and people wrote and asked him to do a self published book and put it on Amazon because it was easier to read that way or so the story goes. I know I originally got The Martian for $.99, just before it took off.

You are the one who decides what you read and that is the way you choose the material.

A Tale of Two Cities

1984

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

I think the other way around. To each his own.

I've got to try that on my iPad.

Wow I never knew that.

I would use a book mark to underline a row and move it on down the page. It helped to keep me focused. I did the same thing when tests so I wouldn't accidentally mark a wrong box and end up failing a test because my answers are all off.

When I follow a knitting pattern, I have them on my laptop and leave my cursor under the stitch I have just completes. Keeps me on track.

They sell boxes of dryer balls nowadays. They work great to separate clothes

As audiobooks have become more popular the techniques have changed.

I have almost all of Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb - In Death series. The very first book is read by the same reader who reads them all, Susan Erikson. Going from book one to book two there is a huge difference in the quality of the production.

Not sure why. The books were popular before they went to audio so it wasn't that much of a gamble.

This is really interesting. Here I thought I was the only one to have that argument with an English teacher, granted it was a poetry class not literature.

College is a number of decades behind me and I've come to realize that reading is a personal experience. No two people necessarily get the same thing from the same book, short story, or poem.

Scholars may thrive on digging out deep symbolisms but I think they belong in the same box as movie and art credits. I like what I like. I find beauty, sorrow, and joy when I read, watch movies, or visit museums.

It would take me about as long to read a book as have it read to me, but I wouldn't get anything else done. I love audiobooks because I can listen while working around the house, cooking, baking, driving, knitting and just about anything except watch TV or listening to music.

I am a slower reading and words form in my mind so that is no different that if I was speaking them or listening to them.

You comment about comprehension was interesting. Over the last 2 or 3 years I've read a number of books that have 3 or 4 female characters in them. I've been reading a lot about women in WWII in Europe. Along with factual books I've been reading historical fiction. One was about women spotters at RAF bases.

I found that with the audio books it wasn't as easy to flip back and check to the section where the characters were introduced. I often listened to the book more than once because of that.

At my age memory retention helps with brain health. i read an article that suggested if comprehension is an issue to take notes. It helps the brain as it ages.

The article could have been nonsense, but it can't hurt.

I'll have to check out those movies especially the Train. I just looked it up and it sounds great. I really like The Monuments Men. I know everyone pans it, but the art, I tear up every time I watch it.

I think I saw an educational version of The Train in history class. I know there was a Hollywood movies about getting art away from the Nazi's.

I like Band of Brothers though it is a series and Saving Private Ryan. I just wish the they didn't have to use the F word so often.

Inn of the 6th Happiness was the first movie I saw in a theater. I really enjoyed it. For the 1950's it was a movie about women power.

I was 12 or 13 when I saw The Guns of Navarone. That and 12 O'clock High are really great WWII movies. Though I do watch "In Harm's Way" on Pearl Harbor day every year but never saw it as a kid.

The movie I bristle at when I see it listed as a children's movie is Watershed Down. Just because it is animated, it is so very violent. I love the book.

Inception -

Okay here is where I show my age.

Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Auntie Mame (not the musical)

Mr. Roberts

The Guns of Navarone