Reading is one of the few constant pleasures I’ve had my entire life. As a young boy, I used to accompany my mother to the local Barnes and Nobel once a week, not to purchase but to read books — my mother was kind enough to purchase me a book once every other month or so, but that’s a story for another day.
Overtime, my reading habit started to get a little too costly and I quickly had to turn to some desperate sources, such as the Dunellen Public School library who, despite doing the best they could, had little more than a shallow offering on a relatively narrow range of subjects.
One day everything changed. One day Amazon released the Kindle. The Kindle was a revolution for me and significantly lowered the cost of my drug of choice. Unfortunately, it turned out to the heroin to my cocaine and my habit became an increasingly frequent one.
Oyster aims to act as a methadone of sorts for my reading habit. Basically, Oyster is a subscription service for ebooks. It works in a very similar way that Netflix or Spotify do but you can tell based on the selection that this is an area that the publishing industry is not exactly jumping into lightly; indeed, it can be a challenge for me to find titles that are of interest to me and that I haven’t read. Still, for the price (just under $10 per month), you can’t go wrong if you can manage to read at least two books per month.
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