in which 2014 was a little uneventful

[pellucid]

This is my seventh post of 2014, the previous six all coming before May. Meep! One of my goals for 2015 is to write more. Just more, period, about whatever. Maybe (hopefully) fic, and fannish commentary and so forth, but probably also just a lot of whatever. Feel free to read and comment, or not, if you're still around anyway. But I'm getting rusty

Comments

[cnidarian]

Glad to hear 2014 wasn't too eventful, sometimes uneventful is totally a good thing! But I hear you on the coasting, I feel like 2014 just kind of slipped away and there's not a lot to show for it.

Which Kindle did you get? I got a paperwhite and while I love the convenience of multiple books in one place, I find the touchscreen means you have to hold it around the edges which gives me tired thumbs pretty quickly. Dare say a cover would help with this.



Perhaps more appropriate for previous years, but in case you need a new climbing picture :)

[pellucid]

Ha!!! That's hilarious!

I got the paperwhite, too, but that hasn't really bothered me in the same way because I was reading some on a Kindle app on my tablet beforehand, so I'm actually liking the fact that the Kindle itself has some edge to hold onto, whereas the tablet doesn't. I've been looking at cases, too, though, mostly because I'm always tossing it in my bag and should probably protect it. My biggest complaint is with ebooks themselves rather than the Kindle in particular. I'm just the kind of reader who tends to have three or four fingers marking places in a book at any given time. I flip back, I flip ahead, and I generally read in a not-very-linear way. And ebooks basically force you to read linearly. Drives me a little crazy. Probably I'll always have certain kinds of books that I'll want to read in print, but I am finding the Kindle convenience really compelling, even when it is slightly maddening that I can't easily flip idly.

[cnidarian]

I don't know how useful the bookmark function is for that?

[pellucid]

I don't either. I'll probably play with it. The problem is that I'm usually not very intentional about my flipping back and forth. I tend to get bored at slow parts and flip forward to make sure it will get more interesting. Or I realize I haven't paid close enough attention to something so flip back to revisit. Whereas bookmarks seem most useful when you know at the time that you want to pay attention to something and to revisit it. But I'm still figuring it all out. We'll see!