[magkelly]

In the past week most of Heather Graham's series thrillers in order, Harrison, Flynn, Ghost, Vampire, Evil etc, so far about 26 of them. I still have some 9 to go to finish her up. Also about 10 NF books, various topics. I'm reading one about Jack the Ripper I haven't read before. I just finished up a book about the last week of Lincoln's life and I've got one on Andersonville on the disk too that I've been half reading off and on between thrillers. I'm a history buff and I read a lot of vintage true crime stuff. I spent most of last week reading some Holocaust/Nazi bio related stuff and some Civil War stuff. This week I'm kind of continuing the latter but also adding in some fiction. I always have a bunch of the romantic poets and a few classics on my tablet. I started out with the Cruz by reading Stoker, LeFanu, Polidori, and Shelly, all the classic monster tales plus a lot of Byron. (He's a favorite.)

It's not uncommon for me to read 40-50 books a week. I'm a very fast, comprehensive reader and I don't watch too much TV besides. I'm self employed, not exactly busy at the moment, and I don't sleep a whole lot so I usually have plenty of time to read. A 500 page book is about 2 hour read so I can sit there and pretty much destroy a folder of books in a long night. I'm probably going to wear out this Cruz in a year and/or need a new one or a new battery at the very least. I'm thinking about ordering one pretty soon anyhow just to have a backup. I do try to use it on the charger sometimes too but I can see myself using up a battery pretty quick considering how much I am reading every day.

I have eye issues and I'm sure my eye doctor would have something to say about it if he knew how much time I spent reading every day, laugh, but I suppose the reading in night mode on the Cruz is at least a bit less stressful to the eyes than using the computer at least. At least I think it is. I like it a lot more than reading paper or in day format I think.