[tomsem]

1. reading more
2. 99% digital
3. go to small local independent bookstore every couple of months, look around, nothing there, leave (force of habit, sense of obligation to support local business)
4. visited library just to get a card so I could borrow ebooks online. Prior to that it had been years (the library here is open maybe 20 hours a week due to budget cuts, and wasn't that good to begin with)
5. reading variety is greater
6. reading more classics because they are free and available with one click and did I mention they are free?
7. magazines, they are dead to me, in print and digitally. I tried a couple of $5 subscriptions from Zinio, but won't be renewing. As Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland, There's no there there. (but actually Oakland definitely has a there, and it is not so far from here)
8. that's because I'm an RSS fiend and magazines just don't scratch that itch any more
9. ok, I lied: I have a Kindle subscription to Atlantic Monthly. It's good, I like it.
10. don't care about DRM except for reference books (I buy lots of ebooks from O'Reilly). Most things I'm only going to read one time. There's no sense of pride in collecting ebooks, at least not for me, I wish I could dump my print book collection, which I feel burdened by somehow, but for obscure, complicated psycho-emotional reasons, I cannot.
11. I cannot stand going into a Borders or Barnes and Noble. I can never find a damn thing I want to read there, and it is depressing to think there are so many books that I don't want to read. I love reading!
12. Amazon is completely different. This leads to that, ratings, reviews, it is great. My wish list is long and growing, I have no fear of running out of things to read before dying.
13. I have had to purchase ebook editions of books I already own, just so I will actually be able to read it (I travel a lot and books are not as portable as they used to be).
14. I'll pay up to around $15 for an ebook, but only occasionally, and only if I can clear space in my 'currently reading' queue by finishing something, which I try to limit to about 5 books.
15. Lately my 'currently reading' queue is dominated by library ebooks. So not buying very many books. I keep thinking the collection is small, I'll have read everything of interest real soon but it has been six months now and I haven't run out of things to read yet.
16. I have started to listen to audiobooks (I do a lot of driving, and suffer occasional insomnia). Wish they included text however.
17. Kindle's TTS is underrated and useful. I've read entire books using it. Why doesn't anybody else do this?
18. Books are strange antiquated objects. Why can't they read to me? Why can't I touch a word and have a definition pop up? or do a wikipedia lookup? What are books for, anyway?