I’m totally fine with the idea of spending more for a really nice copy, but I prefer reading paperbacks, so my limit usually ends up being $20 if I buy them new.

Yeah and they try really hard to hide it 😒 I knew the “hours” of free listening time stank of corporate, technically true speak. I had to dig through the FAQ to find the exact number.

This book was far past what my tolerance for purple prose is

Yeah I don’t know, I feel like kids aren’t given enough time in school to read anymore. My niece has an assigned hour of reading of anything she wants every week, and it’s pretty easy for her because she likes reading, but I think about all the kids who don’t have books at home or don’t have parents who will bring them to the library or who don’t like it because it doesn’t come easy to them or who have a lot of extracurriculars… when I was in middle school, which wasn’t very long ago, we had an hour of quiet reading built into our schedule every week and everybody loved it. Like idk if schools care about reading scores dropping, maybe they should give kids space to read.

High school with assigned books is a little harder, but we still had time in class to read. Although then my enjoyment heavily depended on which English teacher I had… I remember hating all the books I read the semester my English teacher was terrible (told us what to think without giving us any room for discussion, played favorites with a couple of the boys and punished girls for everything, etc)