Right now I'm reading:

-Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - HP Lovecraft (Penguin)
-I Chose The Rails - Bradford Barrington (A self-published travelogue)
-L'Étranger - Albert Camus

Currently reading "Turning Angel" by Greg Iles

Up next: Either "Trevayne" by Robert Ludlum or "The Gold Coast" by Nelson DeMille

Also +1 to krellin. A classic is good here and there, but there is something great about escaping into a good popcorn suspense story like a Ludlum novel.

I read lots ... of ... math & sci. papers ;)

I've recently started reading Wodehouse books. The Blandings ones are rather fun (haven't ventured into anything else yet). Never bought a digital book, and I don't think I will in the near future. Books are just so much nicer.

2 Souls of Socialism (a pamphlet, but whatever)- Hal Draper
Unravelling Capitalism- Joseph Choonara
War- Gwynne Dyer
The Myth of 1648- Robert Bollard

To restart the old books epeen debate, I have a first edition copy of Liddell Hart's The Second World War.

Very active reader. I tend to finish a book a week if not more. Just finished Inferno and Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury now. Not sure what I'll read next. I kinda just pick and chose on a whim and I'm not against reading "fluffy" fantasy books like Mercedes Lackey and the whatnot.

Oh I know I'll probably read some more of the Dresden files books. I've read the first 2 and kinda wanna red the rest of the series.

I used an ereader exclusively (save for textbooks) for four years. Slowly though I went back to books. There were several reasons for this:

1. High maintenance. Worrying about it breaking, being stolen, and frequently forgetting to charge it made reading a hassle on the go.

2. Computer overexposure. My job involves looking at a screen for 40 hours a week. Most of my hobbies are on the computer. I didn't feel relaxed when reading on an ereader. A book does a much better job of allowing you to escape.

3. Outdated and incompatible technology. My ereader was old. I didn't feel like buying a new one, but I was tired of having poor book selection because I had bought an ereader that "lost".

Anyway, ereaders are great but I don't think books are going extinct any time soon.

The psychopath test by Jon ronson
The latest Joe pickett book by cj box - breaking point

What's a book?

Haha seriously though I am reading Orson Scoot Card's "Shadow" series right now. I really like his books.

"The 4th Dimension"
"The Secrets of Pi"
"When Straight Lines Curve"
"Pythagoras' Theorem"
all "proper christian" books, not ebooks
& part of a series of books sold at the local newsagents & designed to make
mathematics interesting & accessible to the "layperson"
I won't pretend to understand all of the content, but I do find it interesting

there was also
"Prime Numbers" & "The Golden Ratio" as part of the series, which I've read

@Draugnar- That store...sounds so beautiful...brings a tear to me eye...

Now reading One Hundred Years of Solitude for the first time after being inspired by these book lists running around.

HOORAH HOORAH HOORAH,

I have been promoted to "Diplomat"

yes, it's perhaps an overblown ranking achieved by playing lots of inexperienced
players in low stakes games and avoiding the "gun players",
but it's on the system and I'll take it & celebrate accordingly ---- yeeeehah !!!!

I don't want to burst your bubble, MajorMitchell, but most of us don't look at the point system at all.
Check out GR (ghostrating) instead. Google it if you don't know what it is.

Oh I'm sure you'll let me know if I bob up anywhere consider'd worthy of your notice
in your quaint & possibly elitist & esoteric affectation, if you have let me join by default
& without any polite invitation been received or accepted on my part
is it like a WebDip sort of Freemasons clubbygang with Ghosty spriritualistic rituals ?

I might leave gigar burns & whisky stains on the furniture
& point out I accept no liability without my prior written consent for any fees you might be charging

What are gigar burns?

50 cent Op Shop novel
James Morton
"Supergrasses & Informers" & "Bent Coppers" Omnibus
Pommy populist crime expose

Gigar Burns is one of MajorMitchell's minions. He emits little noises and smells nearly continuously. MajorMitchell "leaving" Mr. Burns on your furniture is the so-called "nuclear option" in his passive-aggressive arsenal.

Librarian, here. I read all day, every day. Get at me, playa.

When I used to read books it was not a passive consumption of an article for pleasure/escape/cred/status, no... On the contrary...
I'd put the book to proper active use - underline, mark and scribble the margins, lay the book down and meditate on the impressions and trail of thoughts it occasions, learn poems and passages by rote, incorporate them into my language.
This amounts to realizing that the only books really worth reading are those that are worthy to be read aloud in full mental presence, not only skimmed.

A better idea than escape is to arm yourself for the fight. (And the most impending fights you daily face are the ones against your own anxieties and confusions)
Reading, listening, speaking, thinking is also a "handicraft".

Since I now spend more time on the Internet and on games such as Dip than on reading and writing, I have learnt a lot, sure, but my linguistic, mental capacity has suffered some loss, the ability of presence and determination of the character I want to be.