Best book to take camping

[Eggscape]

That would be the Escape manual...

[Mike Lewis]

I just finished reading William Gibson's "Blue Ant" trilogy: "Pattern Recognition", " Spook Country", and " Zero History". Although Gibson is known as the science fiction author who invented the cyberpunk subgenre, these are more mainstream novels, not really SF.

I like the realistic way in which Gibson portrays his female protagonists in the trilogy. They seem like real, normal people. I think that would be hard for male authors to do well.

[TravelerX]

I have Kindle, which is always full of sci-fi classics, but physical books are still more pleasant to read.

[John in Santa Cruz]

I have kindle and read vast quantities of cheap space opera and fantasy pulp fiction on it, via Kindle Unlimited... and there's decent bit of good stuff on there.

The Aeon 14 series that all tie together, dozens and dozens of novels worth.

The Kutherian Gambit and spinoffs... probably a dozen series of 4+ novels each.

The various stories around the Oriceran world. again, lots of series that all tie together, and share various characters.

I'm just starting a new series, with Magi Dawn as the first story, where magic is real for a fraction of people, set in the modern world, but there's at least three forces fighting over control.


I'd far rather read pulp fiction than watch video stories.

[James Gang]

I am heading to west Texas in May for a week and Magi Dawn sounds interesting. I will download it before I go. Mostly though, I am into alternate history.

[Starbrightsteve]

Originally Posted by h2owmn

I'm fond of, and currently re-reading The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey which I bought at the john wesley powell river history museum in green river, utah this summer.

Whenever they sell that book they automatically send your name to Homeland Security.

[EdColorado]

Anything by James Michener
If you’re going to Alaska, read Alaska
If you’re going to Texas, read Texas
Same with Mexico, Colorado (Centennial), Chesapeake Bay Area(The Watermen)

Entertaining and educational.

Enjoy

Ed

[padlin]

I do the same as Ed, try to books related to where I am.

[Bobbie54]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

The Big Rock Candy Mountain. By Wallace Stegner or The Masters by C.P. Snow although An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is a favorite also.
Iowa Dave

Nice to find someone else who is a C.P. Snow fan.

[EscapeBoulder]

Desert Solitare by Edward Abbey would be a good book if you're in & around Moab, UT / Canyondlands. Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is another good naturalist type book if you're in the north mid-west (Wisconsin).

Also... If you're a Kindle user, Amazon has, to my knowledge, recently been republishing for Kindle some out-of-print, post WWII personal accounts of the war. They cost $0.99 for the full Kindle edition! One that I found interesting is: The Story of Wake Island (James Devereu), who was the head officer on the island just after Pearl Harbor.

[Rrgramps]

Ditto on the kindle reader that many of you folks have mentioned. If I’m using my iPad or iPhone, with the kindle app, I might get sidetracked and start surfing or get on social media apps.

Last year, I read all of the Harry Potter series, and sort of got hooked on the science fiction/fantasy genre. Yep, kid’s fairy tales. Heheh

I’m using Libby, my library’s apps, and Amazon prime.

[steve dunham]

One with large print .

[cpaharley2008]

Originally Posted by steve dunham

One with large print .

Yes and the same for your road atlas, large print.

[Donna D.]

I love to read. I read every single day. But I prefer printed books. I guess I love the smell of paper, ink and... dust. There's usually a half-dozen books in Ten Forward. One thing about paper books, if I drop it in the dirt.. no harm done. I don't need to carry 100 books, electronic or paper. I love the 'Little Libraries' and often find something interesting just by reading the dust cover. I've been enriched by reading authors I've never heard of and genre that I thought I wouldn't like... but did.

[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by Donna D.

I love to read. I read every single day. But I prefer printed books. I guess I love the smell of paper, ink and... dust. There's usually a half-dozen books in Ten Forward. One thing about paper books, if I drop it in the dirt.. no harm done. I don't need to carry 100 books, electronic or paper. I love the 'Little Libraries' and often find something interesting just by reading the dust cover. I've been enriched by reading authors I've never heard of and genre that I thought I wouldn't like... but did.

My wife and I both have kindles . They have been gathering dust for about 4 years
Reading real printed books is much more enjoyable for us
Reading a kindle for some reason just doesn’t feel right

[padlin]

has anyone used a PaperWhite? I like regular books as much as anyone, but the PaperWhite is a pretty good replacement.

[EdColorado]

We both use the Kindle app on our iPads and are very satisfied.

Our local library has thousands of digital books that we can check out plus magazines, videos, on-line classes, etc.

Last year my wife took water color classes while traveling.

Should you be in “Q”, you can go to the city library and get a free library card. Then you can check out their digital books.

Ed

[Bobbie54]

Originally Posted by padlin

has anyone used a PaperWhite? I like regular books as much as anyone, but the PaperWhite is a pretty good replacement.

I have one but currently use an Oasis (which is waterproof so skips all the plastic bags on the Paperwhite. Plus it has buttons and touch. Anyway, love the Paperwhite, easy to read, light is never and issue, easy to change text size, too. Not like reading a computer screen.

As far as "real" books go- Kindles have real books on them. As do audio players. Some of us can't easily ready regular print books, not everything is readily available in large print, which is still harder to read than a Kindle screen. The book isn't the paper it is printed on or the cover or the slightly moldy smell from the used bookstore. It's what's inside.

[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Yes and the same for your road atlas, large print.

I bought a magnifying glasses so we can read our road atlas .

[Mike Lewis]

I've started reading a three-volume history of the U.S. At the rate I'm going, though, I'm afraid that when I finish there will be a fourth volume.