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Originally Posted by manchuia
I actually like the ereaders simply because they are NOT books. They are one page ergonomic machines that extract all the things I like from books and put it into a shell that i could live with on a day to day basis. Now that copy of the Iliad is the same as my copy of The Inmates are Running the Prison. That makes me look forward to reading again.
I was wondering how many people on this board are like me in that respect? I also wonder how many people''s reading habit took a sharp upturn since they bought their reader (doesn't have to be 0 to astronomical, but how many were occasional readers to now constant book worms)?
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In my case, I've found very much the same to be true. There are so many books I've WANTED to read, yet "just never got to". Well, since I've been reading electronically, I find myself going through book after book. And not easy ones, either. I just finished volume one of Proust's "Lost Time", NOT an easy read, and am now enjoying Tolstoy's War and Peace. And yes...ENJOYING. I didn't intend this as a reality test, but the other day I picked up the physical version of a book I have in ebook format...when I went back to the ebook device, it seemed so much more enjoyable to me. There's something else I think is a factor at least in my case, and that is that with the ebook version, I am not aware of where I am in the book, and I like that fact. I'm more involved just in reading than in seeing if i'm one quarter, or one half, or whatever, through the book, which was a distraction for me in the past.
So to answer your question, for me, a very definite "yes", ebook reading has DEFINITELY increased the amount I read. I've gone from occasional to virtually every night and even times in between. Great inventions! Glad you posted this question, not many would have been so honest.