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I've had very similar experience. I remember as a young boy, when I got money for my birthday, the very first thing I'd do with it was to head to midtown Manhattan and pick out as many of the Hardy Boys books as I didn't already have and could afford. When I was done with those, it was Tom Swift and then, I don't remember what else. But I loved reading when I was a kid. I still love reading, but I remember a couple of years ago going into the big Barnes and Noble and feeling kind of let down. I guess it looked bigger and more exciting to my 10 year old eyes than it did to my then 34 year old eyes. I just got my reader and have been devouring books on it, sitting up in bed reading much later, because I've discovered so many things I want to read that I didn't have access to before (I now live in Israel so English language books are few and far between and even though I speak fluent Hebrew and own a handful of books in that language, I still very much prefer to read for pleasure in my native language).
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