![]() I am now regularly borrowing books from the Denver Public Library. With advances in connectivity, I'm now just a few taps away from buying and borrowing books while I'm on the go. With the iPad, my library travels with me as well. Instead of carrying around CDs, cassettes and so forth, the iPod made it possible to bring your entire music library with you. In a way, the transition has been similar to the iPod revolution of the early 2000s. My iPad also weighs significantly less than my hard-bound copy of Name of the Wind. In addition to in-line definitions and searches, I can zoom up the font however much I desire, read in the dark and lie in nearly any position while comfortably reading. Between the light, thin design of the tablet and my aging eyes, the iPad with its built-in iBooks app and the add-on Amazon Kindle reader app, I have become a devotee. In fact, it was the iPad 2 even more than the original that firmly grounded me into the e-book world. Although the Kindle debuted in 2007, it wasn't until 2010 that I really jumped on the e-book bandwagon. It's odd how three years or so changes you. As I was reading the book, I stumbled across an unfamiliar word and, rather hilariously, ended up tapping the printed page until it finally occurred to me that the book wasn't going to offer me built-in dictionary and Wikipedia access. I also did something I had never done before. So when it caught my eye, I did something I haven't done in a while. I had heard some reasonably good buzz about it. Last week, I picked up a copy of The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter at the library. ![]()
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