[Katsunami]

Weird. I'm reading Lord of the Rings again. On paper.

Well, that's not the part that's weird per se. What I mean is the following. I can't get "into" the books I've been reading lately. I read a few pages (screens), and then I'm distracted, or have the feeling I want to read something else. Then if I read something else, I get the same thing. It doesn't matter what I read; Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, a Sherlock Holmes story, or some short story in an anthology.

Because I often read Lord of the Rings in December/January (something I started doing in 2001, when the movies came out in December), and I haven't read the illustrated version of the book yet which I've owned for years, I decided to do so.

I've read to page 54 in one go (this includes the Note on the Text, Foreword, Prologue, etc) before I went to bed yesterday.

This book has 67 characters per line, and 41 lines per page, which gives it 2747 characters a page. I use 2100 for my e-books (with Count Pages). So, these pages are 1.309x the length of the ones in my e-books.

This means reading 54 pages in this version of LotR, is akin to reading 70 'pages' in the e-book version. It's a long time ago that I've been able to read that much in one go on an e-reader without putting it away.

I wonder if the ease and lack of distraction with which I'm reading this book is because it's a paper book, or because it's LotR. (I can basicallly read that book in a repeat loop; together with all the other Middle-Earth stuff.) Maybe I could switch back and forth to the e-reader and the book and find out.