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azazel1024 · 01-25-2012, 09:41 AM

Hmmm a thought I just had, my wife just got an iphone in part so that when the latest (and last) baby is born, if she is stuck in the nursery for an hour or some in the middle of the night nursing, she isn't stuck with nothing to do. Maybe I'll try to convince her to do a little reading on her iphone (admittedly the WORST ebook reading platform/format because of the small screen). Maybe if she can get in to that a little, I might be able to woo her over to a kindle or nook st.

My final "reason" for the ebook. My wife and I live in a ~1960sq-ft townhouse (including basement and unfinished storage/utility room) with shortly to be 3 kids. We are here for at least another 2-4 years most likely before we can sell it and buy a larger single family home (hopefully out towards the country more). Previously I had around 300 books taking up precious shelf and closet space. I've gotten that down to around 25 books that I just can't bear to part with (like leather bound with gold filigree Lord of the Rings trilogy "tome", US, UK and French editions of Harry Potter and a couple of other special books). My wife still has roughly 80-100 books on various shelves that it would be real nice to be able to get rid of as we already have electronic copies of roughly half of them and some of the others we could get electronic versions if she got rid of the hardcopy.

In some future ideal house I would have a room all to myself (read, I'd delude myself in to thinking it was my room) that would be combination office and honest to goodness library with at least one wall to wall built in bookshelf (I am a pretty good cabinet maker, carpenter and general handyman/jack-of-all trades) for books galore. Even with an ereader I like collecting rare/special books...and that would give me a great opportunity to collect and display them (and I'd probably even read most of them, at least the once, even if I read Treasure Island on my nook ST normally, and not some 19th century edition I manage to find in this future scenario).

Until then though, space is precious.

01-25-2012, 09:41 AM	#28
azazel1024 Groupie Posts: 182 Karma: 346596 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ellicott City, MD Device: Nook simple touch, iPad 2	Hmmm a thought I just had, my wife just got an iphone in part so that when the latest (and last) baby is born, if she is stuck in the nursery for an hour or some in the middle of the night nursing, she isn't stuck with nothing to do. Maybe I'll try to convince her to do a little reading on her iphone (admittedly the WORST ebook reading platform/format because of the small screen). Maybe if she can get in to that a little, I might be able to woo her over to a kindle or nook st. My final "reason" for the ebook. My wife and I live in a ~1960sq-ft townhouse (including basement and unfinished storage/utility room) with shortly to be 3 kids. We are here for at least another 2-4 years most likely before we can sell it and buy a larger single family home (hopefully out towards the country more). Previously I had around 300 books taking up precious shelf and closet space. I've gotten that down to around 25 books that I just can't bear to part with (like leather bound with gold filigree Lord of the Rings trilogy "tome", US, UK and French editions of Harry Potter and a couple of other special books). My wife still has roughly 80-100 books on various shelves that it would be real nice to be able to get rid of as we already have electronic copies of roughly half of them and some of the others we could get electronic versions if she got rid of the hardcopy. In some future ideal house I would have a room all to myself (read, I'd delude myself in to thinking it was my room) that would be combination office and honest to goodness library with at least one wall to wall built in bookshelf (I am a pretty good cabinet maker, carpenter and general handyman/jack-of-all trades) for books galore. Even with an ereader I like collecting rare/special books...and that would give me a great opportunity to collect and display them (and I'd probably even read most of them, at least the once, even if I read Treasure Island on my nook ST normally, and not some 19th century edition I manage to find in this future scenario). Until then though, space is precious.