I love reading. I was one of those kids who spent more time at the library than anyone else and walked out with a stack of books to borrow each week. I used to ask my parents to drop me off at the public library and pick me up several hours later, which always earned me strange looks from them. “Are you sure you want to stay here that long?” they’d ask. I’d mutter a hasty “Yes” as I rushed into the library to browse through the musty bookshelves, usually starting in the science fiction section and working my way through to young adult books and fiction.
As an adult with less free time to read than I’d like, I still love reading. Even more specifically, I love ebooks. I’ve been reading digital books for nearly 10 years now starting way back in the day when I got my first PDA, a Palm Pilot V. I had discovered Peanut Press (now eReader.com) and reveled in the ability to have a bunch of books in my pocket to read any time I wanted. Far easier to manage than the stack of books I carried to and from the public library as a kid.
I’ve read ebooks on just about every portable electronic device I’ve had since my Palm V and even tried a first-generation Kindle to take a shot at a dedicated ebook reader (it didn’t work out). As you might expect, the iPad is turning out to be an excellent ebook reader – so much so that my husband, also an avid reader, now wants his own iPad to use an ebook reader + portable entertainment device.
On my iPhone, I primarily used the Kindle and eReader apps to access previously-purchased ebooks and
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