My Experience and Thoughts on E- Readers
Having been an avid reader all of my life, I thought that switching to the new technology afforded by electronic or E-readers would be pretty simple. After all, e-readers provide an opportunity to carry all of your books around with you, as opposed to having shelves and stacks of books lying around the house. And, of course, no longer would I have to worry about carrying heavy books with me on the plane. And, of course, you can buy books within minutes, if you need to.
It all sounded good in theory, so I took the leap to the electronic age. After standing in Barnes and Noble for about an hour talking to people who were purchasing the Nook and watching the demonstration for the reader, I finally bought one. It was fairly easy to purchase a book and the book downloaded within minutes. It took a little while to get used to the idea that I had to press a button to turn the page, but I caught on. My Nook is now two years old and I only have about ten books on it so far. I have read about three of them only because they were very short, fast reads.
Recently, I purchased the Kindle Fire only because the price introductory price was so reasonable. Downloading books is even easier than on the Nook; your Amazon account is set up on the Kindle already. All you have to do is order, order, order. Of course, I have done just that, ordered books, but have yet to read one all the way through. As a matter of fact, the Kindle sat in the box for about a month before I even opened it.
So what has this avid reader done to pacify that urge to read a good novel? I go out and buy a real book. It is like going back to a first love. Curling up on the sofa with a blanket and a big bowl of popcorn and a good book is comforting to the soul. Besides the comforting feeling, there is no worry about the battery running out and having to use the charger with cords hanging while in the middle of a great mystery or a great historical piece. I just hope that no matter what the medium, we are still a nation of readers.
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