Being seventy years old and an avid reader from my early years I have around a couple of thousand books (I hate getting rid of books) that make moving house a particulat nightmare, not so much the sheer number of books, but the problem on arrival at the new house of unpacking them and finding places to store them all. The choice of our current home was largely decided by it having an extra bedroon which is twenty feet long by ten feet wide and this immediately became the study.
My interests range from science fiction to historical fiction but concentrate on military history, particularly the aviation side of the Second World War where I engage in detailed research on several aspects. My wife is also a keen reader and she shares my love for historical fiction and adds romance novels as well. I don't remember reading much in the way of Enid Blyton type books when I was a child and the first that I really recall are those marvellous books by Arthur Ransome which I devoured, which I introduced my children to and a set of which I still have. I am looking forward to starting my grandchildren on them but that won't be for a few years.
We live in southern England, about twelve miles inland from Bournemouth, and are enjoying our grandchildren and our retirement. Neither of us is very energetic, in fact I would go so far as to say that in a choice between sitting reading and walking somewhere, the book will win every time. Although I like to watch the news on the television, that medium does not generally attract me and the only other thing I usually watch is the occasional film that I thought when it came out "I'd like to see that" but never did. They usually arrive on the television eventually.
My wife and I are now both Kindle users and find that when we go away somewhere the weight of the suitcase is greatly reduced as a result of this, something to be considered at our age.