I do read, mostly while eating. But being a speed reader, I can cover a lot.
I will also re-read. If a book is fascinating to me, it will be read over and over.
While not an ebook, Owen Gingerich's book "The Book Nobody Read" chases down the early history of printing to figure out how many copies of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus" were printed. Don't know how many times I've read that, along with the books on the Mars Rovers.
There's some old SF worth a read - "A Logic Named Joe" still can make you laugh.
I look for new and read the old. Sometimes an author review on PBS "News Hour" will make me buy a book - preferably ebook. I'm out of storage space.
I got the other half hooked on ebooks. He started really reading when I told him to go read a Tony Hillerman mystery on a boring cruise. Then I got him hooked on Ben Bova.
Gave him my old Kindle and he's been getting a couple of books a month. I prefer that since he can read the descriptions for himself and not ask me what it's about.
So between both, we do well over 50 books a year each. We also have some magazines.
We just don't post about it.
I have an Acer 10" tablet. It's simply too heavy to hold and bulky to deal with in a case. I have an inkBOOK reader. A lot of my books were downloaded to FB reader on the ext, SD card and I could just plug and play. All were EPUB.
Gutenberg Press and Smashwords had most.
The other half likes the 10" tablet for astronomy, but doesn't like the size and the glare to read on it. He prefers that old Kindle.
Last edited by Alpha o; 08-12-2016 at 09:42 AM.
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