Books, books, and more free books.
It always feels like there’s ton of books that people recommend to me or that I hear about and and want to read. Most of the time I can borrow the book from a local library, which usually works out fine, but occasionally I’ll get distracted by life or another book and end up with an overdue book/fines. I don’t mind this as I see it as a way to “donate” money to the library, but it’s not a habit I’m wanting to develop. On rare occasions I’m fortunate enough to borrow the book from a friend who usually doesn’t have a due date. And other times I’ll just buy the book so I can get to it at my leasuire.
Recently I’ve been taking advantage of being able to get digital copies of books for free. If you haven’t happened upon these opportunities for free ebooks yourself take a look at these links:
http://del.icio.us/matthewleffler/ebooks
And of course if you know of some others leave me a comment.
The problem though is that I don’t have what I’d call an easy method to actually read them. When our laptop worked I could lug it around the house and use it, but it was a bit to large to be practical in my opinion. I’ve seen articles on electronic readers like the Kindle, but as I’ve never seen one in person I really wonder how practical they are. More recently I’ve been kicking around looking for a subnotebook pc, as it would be small enough to tote around, but not just a device for reading. Again, any suggestions please leave a comment for me. Hopefully I’ll find some solution soon as my electronic library is stacking up faster than I can keep up.
