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Meh:
I want to read books, feel like I can't relax to take the time to do it.

Books maybe are not "small steps"  Not sure if they qualify or not. Books do help me get out of my thinking-pattern ruts, gives me something else to occupy my mind with, a distraction. Haven't read a good book in a long time. I'm looking at the price of Kindles--it has come down or there are some used ones for sale on Amazon. I'm not sure if I would like Kindle or not. Never had one I don't know how they work exactly. Somehow the books have to be downloaded. It looks like if I want to download 10 kindle books from amazon.com it would cost me about $100.00....um no that is not going to happen. Library is probably it I guess. Oh well.

Hopalong:
Hey Boat.
I rediscovered on a long drive last weekend that a good book on tape is such a deep pleasure for me, and in many ways MORE comforting/distracting to me than my solitary reading. I think it is about the voice on this one. Whoever the actor is, he is not overdramatizing it the way some bad narrators do, just reading it in a really natural way. So the dialogue comes across as real. It's not a Great Book, it's a mystery, and I find myself feeling very happy about it--so much so that since on my short work commutes I only get 15 min. more of the story, today I'm bringing more of the discs inside and am going to make up some handy do-it-on-the-couch chore or fold laundry so I can hear him "read me a story" for longer...

I think that's what I'm liking. Somebody is reading me a story. Way comforting associations, from way earlier in life.

If you have some device that will play CDs or MP3s, maybe you'd find that comforting too? If not, I'm with you...get thee to the library and stock up. Read yourself some stories. (Dunno about yours, but I know some libraries have free Ebooks in their online catalogs...)

xo
Hops

Meh:
yah, I used to cook and then listen to books on tape when I had my own apartment   like killing two birds with one stone  books on tape are good

sKePTiKal:
Tech devices have to jump huge hurdles with me, to be found acceptable. Hubs got me a kindle... long time ago. I spilled tea on it when I was sick one time... and Amazon replaced it, for a minimal price. It's one of the earlier ones - it has real keyboard buttons, and a smaller screen. The only other time I had a problem with it, was after hurricane Irene. All cell/wireless service had gone down. The battery on the kindle had drained. So I spent some time on Amazon's tech board, trying to figure how to fix it -- all it took, finally, after I gave up -- was calling tech support. And they were able to "push" my configuration (including my library of books) to the kindle, after it had made contact wirelessly with the "mother ship" again. It's old, but it has 3G wireless. It was a miracle!!  :D

They are probably the toughest devices going. Easy to read, in bright sunlight by the pool - even the older ones. Easy to buy books (range in price from free - .99 - and up) right from the kindle screen - and they automatically load on your home page screen. You can create folders of "collections", to organize the books. It will automatically turn off, conserving the battery - and once you've downloaded a book - turn the wireless off from the menu - it uses less juice that way. I get hours & hours out of one battery charge. You can also organize your collections online, within your amazon account. There is also a way to move things via laptop to the kindle... ways to cope where wireless access is limited... it's all on their tech support board. For the "consumable" books - light, entertainment reading - I really like the kindle, because I'm not having to find a place for another stack of books. I also like it for technical books - because with the keyboard, I can bookmark a page and write my own notes.

But there are some books, I just gotta hold in my hands. Real books don't have to be recharged, if you spill liquids on them, you can usually dry them out and they still "work" afterward, and they're just as portable as that little screen is... LOL...

Hopalong:
I'm sure I"d like an e-reader EXCEPT that I've had a smartphone (boss paid for) for months now and I HATE the thing.

So I'll prolly stick with paper books for now.

Also, with blue light spectrum light being overstimulating at night (my main reading time) I don't want to use
a Kindle thing in bed.

I'm a Luddite, stalagmite, something like that!

 :lol:

Hops

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