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I'm continuing my reread of Proust, still within the first volume (Du côté de chez Swann, in English better known as Swann's Way). Not to give any big spoilers but I'm at the part where the narrator is spying on the much-gossiped about daughter of a piano teacher, page 162 in my paperback "folio" edition.
Yes, I said paperback. Most of my reading is done with the e-book version but I find myself referring back to my print copy for its superior explanatory notes and summaries. This is despite my paperback's rather densely packed fine print. To illustrate, I've attached a sample of the text, and this comes from a book that's mass-market paperback sized, 527 pages for this volume.
The reading experience really is better as an e-book for this title, because I can resize the text or call up a dictionary at a touch. As for the book itself, it's a time-consuming text that demands your full attention to understand it. At the same time the book is beautifully written, with complex characters and some quite funny moments.
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