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So far the biggest problem of having an eReader to load books I want to read is that I have access to books I want to read. If I were Evie in Out of this World and could stop time this wouldn't be an issue, but there are only 168 hours in a week, and hopefully I'm sleeping for about 50 of them. This leaves me with 138 hours to work, go to class, do my homework, commute, meetings, and hopefully have time with people beyond seeing them in passing.
I haven't been reading nearly as much the past couple of years because of some attention issues. I also don't have a desperate need to escape every second of every day so I can actually walk down the hall or be in an elevator without my nose buried in a book.
I've kept up with the Pendergast, Sookie, and Dresden series, and those only because my mom buys them and sends them to me when she's done. I take a weekend afternoon and zip through and they barely impact my life. Most of what I'd usually read I now listen to in audio format which does take me longer but makes commutes more pleasant, and combines my fiction time with cleaning time. Or fiction time with iPhone game time.
I ostensibly bought the eReader so I could download news and read it on the train. Of course, I haven't explored google reader as much as I should, much less the news feed options.
See, I'm slowly getting into a news routine although that's getting overhauled when one of my weekday podcasts is switching to weekly. I'll survive, there's another 30-minute daily tech I'll pick up. I also listen to the NY Times <8 minute morning podcast and a couple other weekly tech ones. During the week, I get the Washington Post Express on the way into the metro, scan through all the news articles, and recycle it on the other end. I thought I could skip this step with the eReader but that will take me searching down what news sources I want to download in the morning.
So in the meantime, I'm loading up ebooks and being totally time inefficient, napping and reading. Usually when I'm in huge escapist mode it's napping and audiobook/iphone game time, but before I knew it, I found myself pretty well ensconced in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. After this, I don't think I'll ever be able to read cyberpunk in a medium that's not an eReader.
No, there's no real conclusion to these random thoughts. Just problems of luxury.
I haven't been reading nearly as much the past couple of years because of some attention issues. I also don't have a desperate need to escape every second of every day so I can actually walk down the hall or be in an elevator without my nose buried in a book.
I've kept up with the Pendergast, Sookie, and Dresden series, and those only because my mom buys them and sends them to me when she's done. I take a weekend afternoon and zip through and they barely impact my life. Most of what I'd usually read I now listen to in audio format which does take me longer but makes commutes more pleasant, and combines my fiction time with cleaning time. Or fiction time with iPhone game time.
I ostensibly bought the eReader so I could download news and read it on the train. Of course, I haven't explored google reader as much as I should, much less the news feed options.
See, I'm slowly getting into a news routine although that's getting overhauled when one of my weekday podcasts is switching to weekly. I'll survive, there's another 30-minute daily tech I'll pick up. I also listen to the NY Times <8 minute morning podcast and a couple other weekly tech ones. During the week, I get the Washington Post Express on the way into the metro, scan through all the news articles, and recycle it on the other end. I thought I could skip this step with the eReader but that will take me searching down what news sources I want to download in the morning.
So in the meantime, I'm loading up ebooks and being totally time inefficient, napping and reading. Usually when I'm in huge escapist mode it's napping and audiobook/iphone game time, but before I knew it, I found myself pretty well ensconced in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. After this, I don't think I'll ever be able to read cyberpunk in a medium that's not an eReader.
No, there's no real conclusion to these random thoughts. Just problems of luxury.