03-26-2007, 09:11 AM | #1 |
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Reading in bed can be hazardous to your health!
As a frequent bed-time reader, I often find myself dozing away with a book in hand. The Sony Reader has made this a bit of an interesting experience.
Twice so far, I've woken up with the reader under my shoulder, which is fine, but a couple of times I actually dropped the thing on my face, not just once, but repetitively. See, as I doze off, the hand holding the reader droops down until... SMACK! I get a faceful of Reader. Then I wake up and start reading again, until... SMACK! it happens a second (or third) time! Now, I have this flat spot where my nose used to be, and noseprints on the glass. What I really need now is some form of protective headgear! Regards, Matt |
03-26-2007, 09:27 AM | #2 |
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Maybe add a layer of foam rubber to the top edge?
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03-26-2007, 09:45 AM | #3 |
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Get more interesting books which do not make you sleepy. :-)
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03-26-2007, 09:53 AM | #4 | |
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03-26-2007, 10:23 AM | #5 |
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Perhaps you need some protective head gear like they have for people with broken necks that could be rigged to hold the Reader in front of your head.
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03-26-2007, 10:49 AM | #6 | |
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03-26-2007, 11:02 AM | #7 |
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Wow, I had completely forgotten until reading this, but I've done the same thing myself with a paper book years ago. Pretty funny!
But... after the book hit me in the face the first time, I just put it away and went back to sleep! I guess some of us just take a little longer to learn our lessons! |
03-26-2007, 11:15 AM | #8 |
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Funny, with me the reader falls the other way and lands on my lap. I do the same, when In wake up I just continue reading until it happends again. Real die-hards if you ask me!
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03-26-2007, 11:20 AM | #9 |
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2 Definitions of insanity:
#1 Insanity is repeating the same mistake over and over expecting different results. #2 Insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over KNOWING what is going to happen, but doing it anyway |
03-26-2007, 03:43 PM | #10 |
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This happens to me when I start a new book. Keep dozing off, waking up repeatedly. I get angry with myself because I want to read!
But once I'm in the middle of a good book the sleepiness disappears and I will often read to 4 or 5 am in the morning. I seem to have hit a lucky patch because my last 4 or 5 books have been un-put-downable. |
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03-26-2007, 03:59 PM | #12 | |
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03-26-2007, 08:17 PM | #13 | |
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Leonard Goldberg - Fatal Care Peter Clements - Mortal Remains Greg Rucka - A Fistful of Rain John Dunning - The Bookman's Wake Joe R Lansdale - The Bottoms Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Michael Crichton - Next Rob Grant - Fat Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint Stephen King - Lisey's Story Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids Hmmm - more than 4 or 5 - all these books have kept me awake well into the small hours. |
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03-27-2007, 09:19 AM | #14 |
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Cool, I have mortal Remains, Lisey's story and Next...... I love Medical who dunnits, I just ran Mortal Remains through the bookdesigner so maybe that will be the book I start to read today.
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03-27-2007, 11:20 AM | #15 |
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Hah! It also happened to me at various times, but I was too embarrassed to tell you about it
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