For the last year, I’ve been travelling with a big stack of books to choose from in my Sony Reader.
I measured my bookshelves and determined that 93 books stacked would be approximately 6 feet tall. Can I tell you this is my favorite thing? I read 5 new books during our last vacation and only one of them was a print book. Rob fell in love with my e-reader so quickly, he begged for his own for about nine months before I caved. He also has the newest version, whereas I have the 505. His has a touch screen, which I don’t care for actually. I do like that his is backlit, though.
The only drawback to using this as your travel library is that you do have to turn it off during flight takeoff. Otherwise, the battery life usually lasts me through two adult books. I can’t really think of that in terms of hours, but I’m sure Rob knows. It charges quickly and e-books are becoming more widely available online. When you buy a Sony version, you usually get about 100 classics for free also.
The reading experience is close enough to viewing print on paper that it’s easier on my eyes than my laptop. It’s slim and light and a great conversation starter at bars. (Yes, I’m a big reader. I want to have my books available at bars!)
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As a note: those 100 free classics got me to finally actually read some of the books that my high school didn’t think were worthy enough of my time then.