Books and me; we've always been bosom buddies. The printed word in any form; magazines, books, newspapers or billboards. I adore them. That's how my mom figured out I needed glasses. I quit reading all the advertisements and billboards. I'm sure it was a bittersweet moment.
I was always impatient at school. Meaning, when the teacher read a book, chapter by agonizing chapter, only one a day, it was torture. I got fed up and would go check the book out from the library, finish reading it that afternoon, and then be at peace for the rest of the month while she read it to the drooling masses. I was perplexed as to how they could just be satisfied with that one measly chapter a day.
And magazines, oh my magazines. Well, not mine, my parent's when I was a kid. National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Highlights, Ranger Rick, The Friend; I could go on and on. That was one of the first things that made me feel 'grown up'; when I got my first magazine subscription to my own place. My address there in the white box. But magazines were my enemy a bit. I still don't understand why the November issue comes out halfway through October. (for some magazines) Other mags would come the first week of the month, but I would have to pace myself or be doomed to remaining new magazine-less for the other 3 weeks of the month. "Okay, only Highlights this week. Then National Geographic next week." And it would be like Christmas, waiting to peel open the cover and see if they really had discovered another Mayan ruin.
And that's how we come to the digital world. I read a lot online. A lot. Mostly my news, but there are other sites (truecrimelibrary.com) that have books & stories. I'm still not completely converted to reading all digital, all the time. I love curling up on the couch with a new read; something to look forward to all day while I shuttle kids or sort laundry. I've been told the Kindle is really great. You can put books, newspaper & magazine subscriptions all in one little device the size of a piece of paper and thick as a cell phone. I have my doubts, but that looks like the future of my books, magazines and newspapers. Though, just one fantasy thought (for me), I could take 10 different books and just as many magazines on the plane with me and have it all in one place. Ooh, the possibilities!
2 comments:
As someone who lives abroad all i can say is I LOVE MY KINDLE! I still love real books and buy them from time to time but the Kindle is helping save my movers' backs. LOL
My theory on books on the Kindle is that i now read books i probably wouldn't have bought under other circumstances. (Plus a lot are free!) And now i only buy DTB (dead tree book) the books i love and adore. I can read Sookie Stackhouse but don't have to have her books cluttering up my shelves.
Go Kindle!! :)
Airplanes! Yep travel is why we have eBooks - so us book addicts will survive. Esp. when we are stuck for months and month away from our possessions!
I was a born bookaholic too. I'd read all my books in school as soon as I got them, novels, all my text books, etc. ... which often got me in trouble, because I'd retain just enough information to think that I didn't need to study for tests - why read it again? Gets in the way of my reading something more new and interesting! In some subjects, such as English tests, book reports, essays, etc. ... I was fine. But in history class - well, I'd retain the story, but those pesky details like names and dates... not so good.
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