I read for different purposes — for learning, for satisfying a curiosity and for entertainment or escapism.
Knowing we share many of the same entertainment reading interests, my son, Aaron, for Christmas gifted me a couple of Quill Award winning novel’s by Patrick Rothfuss, “The Name of the Wind” and “The Wise Man’s Fear.” Great gifts and a third book of this trilogy is yet to be released.
These first two books are substantial in their own right with 700+ and 1000+ small type set pages in their paperback versions. I mention this because having been use to doing almost all my recent reading on my iPad4 using the Kindle App, where I can set the text size and contrast to my liking, my first experience with the first book brought home how spoiled I’d become.
I had to finally gave in and put a brighter bulb in my reading lamp so I could more easily make out the lower contrast and smaller type. The interesting thing is I can remember wondering, not so long ago, if I’d ever be comfortable using an e-reader.
Change — it happens whether we acknowledge it or not.
As this is my first post of 2014 – let me wish everyone a very wonder new year. May all the changes you experience be for the better and may you be aware they are!
Happy New Year Earl! My wife is an avid reader, so I would be curious at the basic plot/theme of these books. Perhaps a surprise gift is in order.
An interesting enough, the other day she mentioned she had run out of books to read on her iPad Mini, but had some hard covers in the other room. When I asked her why she didn’t pick one of those up, she mentioned she got so used to reading on her iPad that the hard covers now feel too heavy. :-)
Mark, funny your wife mentioned the weight of hard cover books as a negative. I’ve even thought a couple of time how it takes too much effort to hold and keep these paperback books bent back and open to the right spot…LOL! Spoiled I am!
Mark, About these books — are fantasy…stories of a “hero” told somewhat uniquely in his own voice. He tells of sorrow, survival and his search for the meaning of the universe and how it all gave birth to a legend — his legend. Long and a bit wordy but well done from what I’ve read so far.
Happy New Year to you and Bonnie! Kathy is also an avid reader, preferring crime thrillers and who-done-its.
I know what you mean about putting brighter bulbs in the reading lamp, especially once you get used to reading on an illuminated screen.
Hi Tom, thanks! Those new bulbs are bright — I may go back to the old ones once I finish these books! :-)
Happy New Year, Earl. I read a couple of paperbacks over the holidays and found that I greatly prefer my Kindle reader on my iPhone. I had to turn up the light a bit to read the books. LOL
Enjoy your reading.
I’ve not tried to read a whole book on my iPhone, Paul. More power to you but, for me, I think the screen would be too small. I could see it on a 7 inch screen but not much smaller then that. Maybe my age is showing. ;-)
Best wishes Earl for the New Year.
Hi Steve, thank you and my best wishes to you as well in 2014. May we all have a very rewarding year!
A belated Happy New Year, Earl. I can relate to the e-reader. I left my kindle paperwhite on an aircraft a week ago last Friday. I tried to track it down but it’s gone. I contacted Amazon to have it deregistered. I went 3 days with out it before I broke down and purchased another one. Happy camper again. :-)
I’m doing okay with the paperbacks now but I still prefer my ereader!