Burned through two slim paperbacks last weekend: A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño and The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato. On my e-reader (which I use mostly for older classics), I just finished The Fortune of the Rougons, the first of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, and am partway through the introduction for The Kill, the second.

  My slower, long-term reads currently include re-reading Moby Dick, which I feel I didn’t absorb too well on the first read (a quarter of a century, ago as a middle-schooler), a huge collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov, another huge collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, and Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (two volumes down).

Nico Verbruggen does good work. I have a huge collection of his typefaces on my Kobo (but if we’re being completely honest, I mostly just use his variation of EB Garamond 😆 ).

There’s always an XKCD: Borders

I’ve gotten tired of that and now the duvet cover is always in a load by itself. A bit wasteful, but it preserves my sanity.

Yeah, I can’t really help you in the Manga department, but my Clara BW is basically just stuffed full of free classics from the likes of Standard Ebooks and The Gutenberg Project.

I used the Kobo store once, and that one paid ebook is the only one with weird cover issues in the overview screen and has arguably worse formatting than most of Standard Ebooks’ offerings. If I’m really interested in a book that’s too new to be in the public domain nowadays, I usually just buy a hard copy instead.

I haven’t heard of that one. I’ll have to look into it. 😀

The Lost Room. A forgotten SyFy channel gem.