catch-up blog!

It's been far too long since I last blogged! I'll have this blog be a catch-up from Fall Break. Over break I was sick, so I spent a lot of time reading. I recently got a Kindle and e-texts have been a topic that have come up in discussion in class a lot. Personally, I've really enjoyed having a Kindle. It took some time to get used to not having an actual physical book but now I would be frustrated without the ability to highlight and search for specific parts in the books I'm reading and to find and download most any book I want to read instantly. At the same time, I've definitely noticed it changes the way I read personally. Since I have so many books downloaded to my Kindle it's easy to just skip around, instead of sticking to reading one book at a time. When I get at all bored it only takes a few clicks and I can be reading something else without even getting up. In a sense, I understanding what the author of The Shallows and several of the other books read by our class earlier this year. The internet, and e-book, do make it easier to be more scatterbrained and decrease the likelihood that we'll stay focused on one text at a time. The other thing I've noticed is that a lot of the classics are free on the Kindle. That means publishing companies that used to make money off of reprinting frequently read well-known novels are losing a lot of that money to e-book market.