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Originally Posted by zugor
I've been in one now for a couple of weeks. In Dec I kind of went crazy and downloaded lots of books to my kindle, the majority of them freebies but also a dozen or so that really interested me and yet I can't seem to get in to any of them.
I know it won't last but it is still rather depressing. I'd like to get a bunch of reading done now while there is nothing but deep snow in my yard, not have the urge to read come roaring back just when spring rolls around and I need to be outside trying to get gardening stuff done. Last autumn when I should have been doing garden clean up I was in the midst of a reading frenzy and so there is a backlog of work that should have been done before winter set in.
I'm thinking that perhaps one downside of ebooks over paper ones is that without the blurb on the back covers to help me choose which book appeals to me next I'm having a hard time picking one. Since all the free ones are from authors that I don't know there isn't a "hook" to get me started.
If something does change soon I my find myself tackling some big project around the inside of the house - like painting the bedroom for heavens sake.  |
I think that is a big down side to the e-books. It's much harder to tell what might be interesting if the author isn't known to you. And far too easy to download books you later have no idea why you thought they might be interesting.
(I have two cans of ceiling paint I need to tackle once my muscles recover from four hours of an attempt last week to get unstuck my stuck Pilot and 2) recover from the migraine I woke up with after taking 2 nieces and 1 nephew on a toy shopping spree. I forgot how much kids fight when they are 9, 5, and almost 4.
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