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Here’s an interesting question. If you had 300 books sitting in your “to read” stack would you be out buying more? As something I read last week observed, most sane people would say no — but that seems to go out the window with e-readers. I’m a case in point. I have nearly 350 books [...]            Tim March 19th, 2013 | Tags: e-books, e-readers, Kindle, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostIn its latest look at libraries in the digital age, the Pew Internet Project last week released a report on libraries, library users and e-books. The study confirms some of what I’ve been thinking about e-books lately and the continuing technological draw of instant gratification. Perhaps the lead item in the study was that 58% [...] Tim June 25th, 2012 | Tags: e-books, Kindle, libraries, Nook | Category: A Reading Life | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post2010 was a record year in one respect. I read more books this year than in any one year since I started keeping a book diary in 1976. This year’s total was 127, quite a bit higher than the 111 from last year, the previous record. I attribute the number to 2010 being the first [...] Tim January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: bibliolust, biography, Books, e-books, fiction, history, nonfiction, Nook, poetry, reading | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostAs I noted at the time, I broke down and bought a nook about six months ago. Overall, I’d say I’m pleased with it (especially since the latest software upgrade allows you to create bookshelves) but can’t say I’m in love with it. I read 18 e-books this year, 16 on the nook. Here’s my [...] Tim December 27th, 2010 | Tags: Books, e-books, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe meteorological conditions were superb. Unfortunately, the bookish ones were not. Despite a blizzard providing a perfect excuse to be sequestered indoors and plenty of books on the TBR shelves and Nook, my reading so far this weekend has been abysmal. First, although about a third of the way in, I gave up on Mark [...] Tim December 12th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSure, the same day my Nook arrives somebody’s gotta release some scientific study on e-readers. And what do they find? People who read books on an iPad read 6.2% slower than when they read a printed book while reading on the Kindle is 10.7% slower than print. Now, granted, the study doesn’t include the Nook [...] Tim July 7th, 2010 | Tags: Books, e-readers, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostMy wife and kids would tell you I like gadgets, especially electronic gadgets. When you combine that with my book addiction, I always knew e-readers would entice me. It was more a question of when (how long I might be able to resist) than if. Blame Barnes & Noble. I’m going to be sipping the [...] Tim June 30th, 2010 | Tags: Books, e-readers, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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