Read an ebook week.

[temporus]

Today, apparently, begins "read an ebook week."   Who determines which week is which anyway?  On whose authority do they get to proclaim that this week, out of all 52 in a year, is the one where we should be encouraging people to read ebooks?   That's what I want to know.

Well, not really.

What I wonder actually is, when will we start to see: read a physical book week?   A year from now?  Three?  Ten?   At what point do you think we'll have stopped reading physically for the most part, and be reading almost exclusively in ebook formats?  For my wife and I, we're very much on the crux of that these days.   More and more I pick up books electronic only.  Sure, I've got a stack of physical books three stories tall (that's story as in building height, not story as in tale) that constitutes my "to be read" pile. I chip away at it when I can.  But for the most part, I have been reading ebooks at a ratio of almost 5 to 1.  Just this weekend my wife commented to me how different (I think the word she used was delicious) it was to go back and read a physical book again after so many novels she's consumed via electronic format since I got her her own kindle. 

So perhaps this week, maybe we should be reading a physical book instead of an ebook, since we have converted to the "wave of the future" or whatever other hype you want to toss on the shoulders of ebooks.   Yeah, that's it, I'll pluck out something physical to read, ebooks be damned.  Well, okay, not damned.  I like them too much for that.  But I'll send the ebook into the corner for a timeout how about that?  Yeah, that could work.

But seriously, what are you reading to celebrate read an ebook week and in what format are you reading?

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[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it's the 40th anniversary of the very first eBook (see http://www.ebookweek.com for more details).

I'm currently reading Finder by Terri-Lynne DeFino aka bogwitch64 on the nook.