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Originally Posted by wildhoney66
i love the twilight zone and Time Enough at last is a great episode and if that was me i would have told her off. anyone keeping me from reading is gonna get a peace of my mind unless i'm at work of course, and if i am reading at the wrong time that's different. and i don't have kids either. anyways, i have the entire Twilight zone on dvd and even season 1 on blu-ray as well.
this may sound like a strange question but am i the only one that whenever i get really good and involved into a book my bladder says it's time to go. i hope that's not just me
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It's not just you. Usually it hits me toward a book's end. Then I find myself trying to hold it all in while trying to finish the book. I know I could just put the book down, do my business, and then come back to it. But who cares about common sense when you're trying to find out if the villain is getting theirs in the end.
Anyway, a little while back I posted about an experiment I was conducting to solve the tactile memory problem that comes from reading Ebooks. My theory was to google search an image of the cover of the book I was reading, size it and print it out, laminate, and secure it to my Ereader cover with Velcro tabs. Total crafting cost about 1.00-1.25 USD.
I am pleased to report that for the most part I am happy with this method. I have done this with 4 books, and the results are most promising. The first is that I am better focusing, and retaining what I've read on my current book, and the second is more of a happy side-effect. The custom cover on the ereader is actually announcing to those pesky chatterers that I'm reading a book. They are tending to leave me be rather than attempt the dreaded 'social interaction'. Even the most anti-book, pro-social media tech enthusiast, knows a book cover when they see one.
Back in the day I was one of those readers who judged a book by its cover. Any book art by Michael Whelan convinced me that the book had to be amazing. It was not always the case, but one should not argue with Whelan.
So every two to three weeks my ereader cover gets a change. Pros are the visually appealing aspect of book covers, the convenience of a ereader, and the focus that comes from the almost tricking your brain into believing you are reading from a dead tree format. Cons I can't go back to paper, no matter how good those dead trees smelled, because of the amount of money I've spent into ebooks. People know what I'm reading, and I won't lie about it with a false cover. Another is I find myself unwilling to abandon a boring book if I've invested the time to craft a cover for it. That might actually be a pro since I kind of have a completion complex.
If anyone else has attempted this please post up about it, share your thoughts about how it goes for you. I'm not advocating going back to paper, but sometimes the old ways are still good ways.
