I read every spare minute I can. My Sony Reader is much lighter than a hardback and much slimmer than a paperback, so I can easily carry it in my purse with me everywhere I go. I’m usually reading more than one book at a time, and I like to have choices in what to read.
My favorite part of reading e-books is that the type can be enlarged. And, the new E-Ink books don’t have any glare because they don’t have backlit computer screens.
I buy books, and I read public domain books, which are free. There are more than 10,000 of these available. I most enjoy books from smaller presses that may be hard to find at my local bookstore or library. However, it’s easy to find all sorts of e-books from Books on Board.
I was thrilled when Sony Reader updated its firmware to work with the Adobe ePub format. If you don’t know about ePub, it is a format that works well for many different devices. I can buy an ePub book for my Sony Reader and read it on my laptop or my iTouch (non-DRM). Books on Board offers thousands of ePub titles, as well as Adobe Digital Editions titles from many publishers that work well on my Reader. Not every e-book seller offers such a range of titles for my device.
For people who are wondering why I would spend so much money on e-books and a reader when I can get books from a library for free, I’m actually paying for portability, the convenience of obtaining a book right away,the ease of reading a larger type, the ability to read long online articles offline, etc. These advantages can’t be beat.
I’m hoping to win a Sony Reader from Books on Board. It is holding a contest that ends today. If I win the Reader, my plan is to give it to my sister who loves mine. Of course, I’ll give her a gift certificate to Books on Board to get her started with her own e-book collection!
