Member Eat_Read_Knit(She/her)

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Catherine
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A (very) hefty pile of romance, covering a range of subgenres. Sci-fi romance is my current not-even-remotely-guilty pleasure.

Some general fiction, golden age crime, and some fantasy. Odd bits of historical fiction and non-romance sci fi.

A scattering of classic literature - some of which I have even read. (I may or may not ever get round to reading the rest. I acquired War and Peace as a pretentious teenager determined to read Proper Books, and 30+ years on I still haven't read it. Frankly, it's not looking promising at this point.)

Assorted popular science, and a bit of some health and nutrition. Some politics and social issues. A handful of biographies.

Stacks of old history and religion books. I have BA and MTh degrees in history so old they're practically part of history themselves, but I rarely part with my old history books even though I don't read much history or archaeology now. I'm gradually weeding the religion ones out each time I have a clearout: it's been a solid decade since I was in any way religious, but I still have a complicated relationship with religion and find the books hard to throw out.

Anything to do with property or tax is work-related.

Plenty of my books are still the old-fashioned kind, made out of bits of dead tree, and ink, and glue - but these are now less than half of my library. The vast majority of new acquisitions and actual reading are ebooks these days, thanks to a mixture of space limitations, portability, and my middle-aged eyes not liking tiny fonts so much now. But while I read more on the Kindle/Kobo than in print, but I often pick up cheap paperbacks of things I have as ebooks (and cheap ebook deals of things I have in print) if it's something I really liked and plan to keep/re-read.

I have separate collections for paper books and ebooks, mostly because it's the the only way I'll avoid wasting hours hunting through the shelves for something that only exists on the kindle or kobo. There's an audiobook collection too, but I very rarely listen to audiobooks. I never remember to look at the media field when adding books, so that field bears no relation to reality, but my collections and tags for ebook/paper/audio are usually right.

Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth (okay, some time around 2014), all of my tags and collections were beautifully organised. Now? Yeah, not so much. The tags and collections that are present are usually correct, but there are big gaps. Oh, and there'll probably be some in the To Read collection that I have in fact read.

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Middle-aged pencil pusher with a tendency to accumulate more books than I have have time to read, more games than I have time to play, and more yarn than I have time to knit with.

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