E-Reading

For the longest time I resisted the electronic reader fad. Either the romantic, or the psychopath in me that believes a bond is built during the process of a book. Looking back at the last few reads, some books are more weathered than others, some with dog-eared pages, some with notes scribbled, some with water marks, food  crumbs and even hair. Ok, those last few points potentially reinforce why you probably don't want to keep books around. I was recently given "The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear". Now this is a big book, there are times where you could be excused for thinking that this is a phone book on first sight. The sheer logistics of carrying this book around forces you save it for at 'home' reading.

So I decided to go for the impersonal Kindle, a device so sleek and incognito that it shrouds the user in an air of mystery, is it 50 Shades of Gray or The Iliad? Neither actually, currently reading 'A Confederacy of Dunces' both via hard and electronic mediums. In any case, I feel the person loses the tag of being well-read and immediately assumes the "gadget lover" moniker.

Update: Loving the back-lit e-paper, not loving the fact that I can't read during take off and landing aboard airlines.