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I have read off and on during my illness. Sometimes I can focus and sometimes I can't.
I love to read and would be interested in trading books if anyone has some they would like to share.
I do paperbackswap.com It is fun, but always looking to find other ways to get books for minimal money (postage mainly).
Looking for a book, maybe I can help you.
I have many many books. Actually, I am addicted to books. Need to move some and get some new. ones.
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lpkayak
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when i moved i gave so many away. now down the street is a bookstore where you trade them in for credit andthey sell them about 1/2 price.
i want to say i think it is really impt for us to read as much as we can as long as we can cuz after awhile we cant. i watched this happen to my mom.
the same thing has happened to me with movies. i watched mom not be able to follow a plot-even when i got her old frank sinatra movies etc...and it happens to me when i am at my worst.
so reading and movies are a priority for me now...something i kept putting off when i was working and raising kids.
im not ready to swap cuz i gave a bunch away and the others are still packed...but i hope this thread takes off. maybe you should change the title to BOOK SWAP and we can post what we have and what we want ...
i'll keep following...but just want to make sure everyone knows...its really important to do what you can when you can. no guarentees it will continue.
and you know those threads about how awful lyme is and we remind ppl to focus on what is good and fun NOW...often reading is one of those things.
i just realized this might sound like a real downer to young ppl with lyme. i am 63...slowing down...work is done ...kids raised. if you are young and starting out i dont want you to think you cant get better. you can. and you can live a good life. they know a lot more about treatment now than they did when i got sick in the early 80s. and i didnt get treatment for 15 yrs...so i am slowing down earlier than some...but i am so much better than i was.
i'll shut up my rambling now...hope i got my point across.
HAPPY SWAPPING!
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MannaMe
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I love to read ....... but my books are my friends! I reread them and re-reread them!
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Books are my everything. I love to read and as an editor, its kind of my job. I read at least 2 books a day. My ability to speed read is one of the few things that I haven't lost to this illness. If I couldn't read, I wouldn't want to live. Jess.
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I am also a huge reader- have been my whole life, a passion.
I found it very odd and disturbing that my first year of Lyme treatment, that besides reading many Lyme books
and online, I did not read a single fiction book! Been back with them for a little while now, it's great.
I fought electronic books for awhile- until I got an iPad, and for FREE, you can preview the first chapters of a new book
before purchasing. Love that!
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I've loved to read since I was a kid. Read everything on my own bookshelf, so then started reading my Mom's books (age 10).
Couldn't get enough reading, went to the library all the time growing up...would check out stacks of books, and the librarians were always worried I wouldn't get through them all, but I always did, and always returned them long before they were due...
Then got hooked on Sci-Fi books in High School...Mostly Star Trek & Asimov.
But this year, my hands & wrists would no longer hold real paperbacks without severe pain and injury sensations...so I had to switch to ebooks. Now I love, love, love my e-reader...
I had some times when I could not read from Lyme, and it sure bummed me out. I don't know what I would do if I no longer could read books on a regular basis...the few weeks I went without being able to read was soooo hard... Reading is my escape, always has been (I've been sick since 1977).
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I don't have too many books. Love to go to the library. Like MannaMe most of the books I have I like to reread over the years.
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randibear
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I love to read. Kresley cole. Christine feehan and Lara Adrian to name a few
Could read for hours
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One of the best books I've read recently is a novel titled, Killer Angels. It's about the Civil War and focused on the Battle of Gettysburg.
It's one of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time. Sounds like it would be dry, but it's absolutely not.
I recommended it to my mom, and though she initially balked at the suggestion, she found she couldn't put it down and even recommended it to her book club.
Oh, and it won the Pulitzer the year it was published.
Unfortunately, it's out on loan, but I do recommend it.
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randibear
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I Read that one also. Great book. If you get a chance read anything by Shelby foote. Wonderful southern author and great historian. Puts the civil war in A whole new perspective. Very readable
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It is an incredible site. I've been a member for years, and can't count how many i've sent out and received. It feels great to be able to send out a book knowing that the person you're sending it to wants that book!
As someone with chemical sensitivity, it has been somewhat of a challenge, in that people who use fragrances, etc. aren't always aware of this.
On paperback swap you can have "request conditions", meaning you can ask people not to send a book from a smoker's home, etc.
Also, it isn't only paperbacks. All books in good condition that have no underlining can be traded.
Highly recommended:
paperbackswap.com
I have no commercial interest, and have plenty of credits, so if you join, tell them that cozynana sent you ;-)))
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map1131
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My husband bought (?) me a Kindle for Christmas last year. He loves it when I take him to the store and pick out my own gift. He doesn't have to think.
I love it. I'd been library book hunting for so long and I just wasn't able to find books that I hadn't read. Of course I always came home with books that I forgot I'd read.
I now download ebooks from the library. I was afraid I would have to spend money buying from Amazon, but I've only bought maybe 3 all year and only if they are on sale for $1.99. lol
I used to get brain fog really bad being in the library. I guess it was overloading my nervous system looking.
You don't need wi-fi to download books. The $79 Kindle comes with computer port so you can download.
Pam
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randibear
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my husband has a kindle but he forgets that even those 1.99 or 2.99 books add up when you order so many....
watch those charges...
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I wanted a Kindle last year for Christmas. Couldn't really afford it. Maybe this year. I NEED so many other things!
map.. Do you order the e-books from your local library? You know, the problem with your library may have been the molds that collect on the books.
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map1131
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Yeah, I had told Dr C once my goal was to open a used book store. He proceeded to tell me all the reasons why one with lyme & co could not handle the used book world. Apparently it's a dirty world even in the library.
Yes, I download from the local library. I've even discovered good authors that I'd never read before.
The cheap Kindle if you only want it for book reading is all you need. Every once in a while I'll go to Starbucks and enjoy a coffee why I use their wi-fi.
Pam
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I loved to read my whole life, and was a speed reader. When the Lyme got bad, I couldn't read anymore. I had to re-learn how to read, and it's still really hard.
I go through phases where I can read a little bit, but most of the time I can only stare at the tv. Before I got sick, I was not at all a tv person.
Now, when I'm well enough I read, but haven't been able to do a lot of that in a long while. I have a huge library, which I was downsizing early in the summer when I had a semi-well phase. I purged a ton of books that I knew I'd never read. I still have many that I've never read but would love to if I could.
When I can read, I usually have to stick to fiction that's a relatively easy read. Even with that, I often realize that I've stared at one or even a few pages wihtout realizing what I just read or even absorbing what my eyes are looking at. I miss reading!!!
Jenni~
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I too love to read......also love to crochet. But over the past two years, have had to pack my yarns away..between the pain in my hands,arms and wrists and the whole brain thing, I was just not managing. I do still try and read, but it's hit and miss a lot of times. Just can't focus real good. I usually just put in one of my favorite movies to sit and watch (or listen too) when I'm feeling really crappy!!! I also find the books start getting heavy and my arms and hands start hurting...
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AuntyLynn
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Avid reader as a kid. Now I mostly read online.
Asked the local library if they could get a copy of "Bail Out" for me - new book by the former gov't legal investigator of the 2008 TARP crisis. Compelling story ... but time to read? Ha!
That Civil War book sounds intriquing though. My favorite genre was always historical novels!
A real good one I read a while back is called: "In the Heart of the Sea."
It's the story of the whaleship Essex, that was sunk by a whale in the south pacific. This was the real life sea disaster that everyone talked about in the century before the Titanic... and the saga upon which Melville based his novel "Moby Dick."
Entirely researched by curators of the Nantucket museum - it was a fascinating read.
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