Kindle review
My previous blogpost was about how I had finally decided to get an e-reader. Well, my Kindle finally arrived this past weekend. Overall, it was well worth the $99 that I spent. My main reason for...
View ArticlePower outage reading
Last night, from 7:30pm to 2:30am, my block was without power. No lights, no internet, no TV, no fans. Let me say that again, no fans. And I sat trapped in my stuffy apartment with a tiny flashlight...
View ArticleKeep calm and read on
As a child who grew up in the 1990’s, my life was quite different than children in the 21st century. Remember how kids used to play outside? Yeah, I do! Now when kids step out of their video game and...
View ArticleRecently read
It’s official, I read an entire book on my phone. Back in the spring I bought a Kindle, which was a great investment. It was great to be able to get public domain books for free instead of buying them...
View ArticlePaper or Paperwhite?
There is a popular dispute constantly occurring over paper books vs. e-readers — e-readers save paper and individual e-books cost less, while paper books are more authentic and look nicer on a...
View ArticleThe great e-reader debate
I may be the last person on the planet to enter in on the e-reader debate, and am certainly the last avid reader to not own an e-reader. But as my life is changing, I’m an on-the-go, fast-paced person...
View ArticleFinding time to read
Sometime between elementary and middle school I stopped reading for fun. I spent the majority of my time outside, even in the winter, because living in the south means that, on average, the...
View ArticleHow digital didn’t kill the printed book star and e-books by the numbers
A recent article in Forbes pointed to some research by Pew Research that showed that e-books haven’t made the printed book a strange relic of the past, like CDs or VHS tapes. According to the article,...
View ArticleWhy I don’t use an e-book reader…yet
I would consider myself a bibliophile. However, I do not quite have the collection I want just yet, but honestly, I think every book collector would say the same for themselves. Plus, we still need...
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