Books Are All The Nourishment I Need...

As a young girl I was a voracious reader I mean I really read a LOT it was probably as an escape but then as a grown up I was very distracted and didn't feel like carrying the books around but I still read a bit but didn't have a lot of time in the working world and eventually just didn't read at all! Bad. vERY Bad. Every once in awhile I would hunker down and read a good book but I had to really make a huge effort to and as I said before it was a pain carrying the books around...

Flash forward to the future in 2008 with the advent of the election year and a newfound interest in learning as much as I can about the Obama campaign so I got a Kindle having heard they were this amazing tech device for carrying around and reading oodles of reading matterial including magazines and newspapers books and blogs...very cool I looked into it weighed the cost compared to convenience and got one then got the NYTimes the Huff post and a whole slew of good books like fight club Born Standing Up and Cruddy
I found reading electronically was like second nature for me very nicely flowing and I read very fast & enjoy the interface immensely so I read more plus it is fun to read on the bus...
I never liked reading the newspaper before and reading blogs on line is pretty cool but a bit daunting cuz there are so many no having a bottomless book and personal kiosk if you will is the only way to go it was great during Obama's campaign I learned so much so easily
There were clunky lil problems tho IE no backlight, not very graphic, only was a book so you had to bring it AND your laptop and not that innovative tech wise... but hell the Kindle at the time was the best eReader around...

Apple hadn't come out with anything yet cuz it was very busy innovating the cellphone world and winning on that score...

Then the iPad came out!...and along with a huge memory, backlighting, having a mini computer, bottomless book and journal AND personal kiosk with graphic display one also has realistic page turning and a real feeling that one is actually reading a real book especially with the double page view but the best part is being able to have so many books(I currently have more than 100 and you can read more than one and it remembers where you are in each!!!
In the iBook store, all your books are colorfully displayed on a beautiful wood shelf to impress any book worm visiting your iPad and as you can see my taste runs the gamut of Sarah Silverman to the Oz books and HG Wells



Also I really Love HP Lovecraft...so far my two fave books are The Dunwich Horror, and The Sirens of Titan between him and Kurt Vonnegut Jr they are the only nourishment one needs...My two fave short stories are:
All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury and The Professor's Teddy Bear by Theodore Sturgeon

Goodnight and my motto or at least one of my many is you can stay up as late as you like as long as you are enthralled with a good book...
Tryntje / koduckgirl/ BBH

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