Thing 9: eBooks

Yeah, so, we bought a house in December... and I still don't really have room for all the books.  Not until I can afford to have custom shelving put in the dining room...

I'm one of those people who's not a fan of reading on screens.  I'm sure I'll get there eventually; as much as I love physical books, there's only so much space, and for most of what I read, the content is not format-dependent.  (In my head, I'm imagining what life would be like if I had my Betty Crocker cookbook in e-format, and an e-reader that could pull up, in parallel, the brownie recipe and the frosting recipe on the same screen...)  But, I have no e-reader, and my phone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Treo that's two years old.

My husband, on the other hand, loves electronic books and has repurposed one of my older laptops (I'm a fan of 10" or smaller laptops for portability) as an ebook reader.  He reads a lot of pulp sci-fi, and he can get titles easily in a format that works on a variety of platforms.  He also reads on his phone, which would drive me nuts - the screen is so small!  He's getting a new Android phone in a couple months, which may or may not expand his options.