I freely admit to being addicted to books. I have at least 7 bookshelves full of books and I still have books in piles. This is after culling my stash and getting rid of 3 large boxes of books. It’s safe to that I have an either a deep love for books and reading or a fetish for ink and paper.
Which is possible I suppose, I love paper and pens. I collect fountain pens and stationary but to be fair, I use said items, but back to my love for books. When we started the process for our move to Jacksonville, my husband said, “If you get rid of some of your book, and I’ll gladly buy you a Nook, because I’m not moving all those books again.” This led me to think that he was thinking about maybe doing a DITTY move again, which would work in our favor since we’d probably get some money in our pocket. Then came the news that he’d have to stay at OCS for most of the month of August, so that made a DITTY move not even a possibility. But by that point I was intrigued by the thought of an e-reader and was seriously wondering if I’d be happy reading a book on something only a little larger than the average paperback, but instead of the wonderful smell of ink and paper and feel of turning pages, I’d be clicking a button to further my progress in a book.
I’m not a technophobe by any means, I like the new toys and upgrades to the techie toys I already have. So, the idea itself intriguing and I thought a lot about the deal and in the end accepted it.
So I started culling through my existing library and trying to find e-copies of those books using the site Brandon gets his from. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few of the books that I was looking for and even some I didn’t expect to find. So into the box the hard copies of those books went. That’s not to say that all the hard copies of books I found went into the box, there are at least three series that I kept even though I have the e-book versions. Also there are some books, such as biographies from my one of my favorite authors. There are e-copies of her books, but I really prefer the hard copy to the e-copy, I think it has to do with the pictures not translating as well. My library is now probably triple the size it was before we moved, but that is only because I did indeed get an e-reader.
So, my bottom line is I like my Nook, it has allowed me to expand my library in a way that would never have been financially and spatially feasible without it. I still read hard copy books; I keep a running list of requests from the library. On the flip side of that, I now rarely buy books, be it a hard copy or an e-copy.
