I still read plenty of paper books, but I think ebooks have changed my reading in two main ways:
- It's so much easier to get hold of things. It's easy to look them up. Easy to buy them. And you can start reading pretty much instantly. I'm never really stuck reading something I don't care for. I used to pick up cheap books that might be ok just because I might otherwise get stuck with nothing new to read. That's never going to happen again.
- Availability. Even if I don't have my reader with me, I'm still likely to have my phone, and it's easy to make sure I have a few short story collections on there. I can take one ereader on holiday and not worry about running out of reading matter.
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