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Originally Posted by purl4peace
I loved to read as a kid and read Tolstoy while I was still in High School. But going into college, I really didn't have time for "recreational reading" any more. Then, add a job, husband, and babies and by then about the only "literature" I was reading was "goodnight moon".
Last year, I got one of the first batches of the next gen Cybook and that was ok. But there were problems with that first batch -- like bookmarks didn't work and formatting wasn't great and lost interest again.
However, when I bought my Sony Reader, I have taken a huge interest in reading again. I also gave my Cybook to my son (11 years old) and he is more interested in reading on that than reading an actual book -- I guess if it doesn't have buttons, he doesn't want anything to do with it!
Right now I'm reading East of Eden by Steinbeck and don't remember having enjoyed a non-fiction book this much since high school.
This forum helps keep me interested and helps me know where to look for books but have to say that my reading "ideas" are still what they were back when I was in high school -- Literature -- particularly Anthony Trollope, Tolstoy, etc.
I do think that the price of ebooks is highway robbery -- not to have the other thread bleed into this one. I wanted a nicely formatted "East of Eden" for my Cybook and the online bookstores were charging 8-17 bucks for them... Ridiculous! I can understand paying this sort of money for a "new" book -- the author is still alive, there are marketing costs to recoup... But a work of literature that has been around for over 1/2 a century? It also seems like the cost of ebooks has gone since Christmas like they are wanting to capitalize on all the readers given as christmas presents and take advantage of folks new to the electronic read scene who don't know about how to get cheaper content or may not have the computer skills to use format converters etc. Again, I think that is where this forum really helps...
The thing I really like about readers is that sometimes I'm not always in the mood to read whatever I may have had with me in the past. So I wouldn't read. But with the reader, if I'm not in the mood for East of Eden, I can look around and usually find something on the reader that I am in the mood for...
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I'm guessing you are a knitter? Have you tried putting a pattern on your Reader at all?