The problem with books is that I read too darn fast.
I picked up The Revolution Business by Charles Stross and Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi on Sunday at around 10 AM. It's now 10:30 PM on Tuesday, and I've finished both.
I liked both! But if I made reading my full-time hobby, I'd need a LOT of books.
Given an infinite supply of enjoyable books, I blow through the average 300-400 page novel in roughly 4-5 hours. It just feels... inefficient, somehow. I mean, I'm paying $15 a month for my WoW subscription, and (at least until my work hours changed recently) I'll easily get 12 hours of raids a week out of that. I bought the Orange Box for $60 a year ago, and I'm still playing TF2 several hours a week. Compare to the books I bought, which were $8 for the paperback and $25 for the hardcover, and lasted three days between them.
It's not about the money; Code Monkey am paid decently, and if reading ever got to be too expensive I'd just visit one of them "library" thingies that old folks talk about. And if time per dollar was really the unit I used to quantify entertainment, well... I'd have more important things to worry about.
Still, it's kind of... "wow, that was good. Now what?"
I liked both! But if I made reading my full-time hobby, I'd need a LOT of books.
Given an infinite supply of enjoyable books, I blow through the average 300-400 page novel in roughly 4-5 hours. It just feels... inefficient, somehow. I mean, I'm paying $15 a month for my WoW subscription, and (at least until my work hours changed recently) I'll easily get 12 hours of raids a week out of that. I bought the Orange Box for $60 a year ago, and I'm still playing TF2 several hours a week. Compare to the books I bought, which were $8 for the paperback and $25 for the hardcover, and lasted three days between them.
It's not about the money; Code Monkey am paid decently, and if reading ever got to be too expensive I'd just visit one of them "library" thingies that old folks talk about. And if time per dollar was really the unit I used to quantify entertainment, well... I'd have more important things to worry about.
Still, it's kind of... "wow, that was good. Now what?"
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