I don' have a picture for today. In fact, I was going to write a completely different blog, but I don't know how to download pictures from my iPhone to my computer.

Labels: computer; iPhone, iPad, technology, website

I bought my mother a Kindle when they came out, and then I got one for the kids so I didn't have to head to the bookstore late at night when they say, "I need a book tomorrow."

I'm torn how I feel about the Kindle. I like to read on it. I like to stuff it in my purse and read one of the many books I have at the ready, but I'd still rather read a BOOK. I do read the Kindle in the bathtub, so that wasn't the problem I thought it would be. (Unless I drop it, and don't jinx me!)

I'm not fooled by the electronic page, and I don't like that it isn't easy to find a chapter, etc. on it. I'm also a big highlighter and flagger. My books look like they're ten years' old when I'm finished with them. I don't think they format that well on the Kindle, which makes the fiction reading experience nicer, but not so much for the non-fiction.

Since I live in Silicon Valley, everyone here has the iPad. I'm so yesterday around here, and I had someone in Starbucks show me how he made his own table of contents and highlighted on the iPad. But he was a retired science teacher. I'm a writer and I can't help it, I still prefer the page. A real page.

The one thing I do love about it though, is I don't have six books on my nightstand now (so it's neater) and I can get the books right away after I read a review or an endorsement. And I do love that I have the works of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Dostoevsky and the Bible in the palm of my hands. I don't like the work it is to find "Hebrews" If you have an eReader, do you still read "real" books?

Labels: eReader, iPad, Kindle vs. book