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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Does anyone else get annoyed when you *have* to read a paper book? I'm being forced to read "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers" (grad school requirement) and it's not available in e-book format. I find it really inconvenient that I can't change the font size, and that it doesn't fit as well in my bag as an e-book reader.
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On the other hand, I put my feet up on the edge of the bath yesterday, happily reading without fear of damage
(*) a pbook recently bought.
But, seriously, yes, I have all these TBR pbooks I really wish I now had in ebook form.
Incidentally, the pbook (no ebook available) was a small book of short stories called
how a moth becomes a boat (<---linky), by Josephine Rowe. Less than one hundred pages long, and each story only lasting a couple of pages or so, it's a book you can just pick up, read a story, and put down. But you'll probably pick it up again later and happily read the same story. Each story feels like a novel-conflated-from-a-moment-and-then-condensed-into-a-very-short-story. Each words feels precisely chosen; as if each sentence took a day or more to write; as if each two-page story was the work of a hundreds of hours. They're condensed from large seams of text into perfectly faceted diamonds. They're very affecting emotionally. I'm loving it, as you can probably gather.
Cheers,
Marc
(* I realise there are accessories that will let this happily happen with the device, but I don't have one )