I've been on a fiction-reading binge, which is really quite a change from my normal diet of knitting books, knitting magazines and Frankie magazine. And Capital magazine. (Yes, many magazines in fact).
I have, in the last few months, read a whole 4 or 5 novels, and that's a lot for me.
The one I just finished was Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, which was really good except for the breathtaking glossing over of how the heroine, her baby and her sweatshop-worker mother managed to survive while the former gained a medical degree and surgical training.
The two novels before that were a couple of ghost stories set in Alabama (or thereabouts) by RB Chesterton (which I enjoyed except they were quite match-matchy).
The one before that....actually I'll stop here.
Because the point of this post that I have decided it might finally be worth getting an e-reader, now that I'm consuming a respectable amount of text-heavy product.
I know the Kindle is very popular, but I don't want to be tied into buying only from Amazon. I want to be able to support local booksellers and local writers. I also want to be able to borrow e-books from our public libraries.
So I'm think I will get a Kobo. The boy said he'll get me one for my birthday, but seeing as he has just forked over way too much money to send us all off on holiday to Rarotonga, I would be fine with buying it myself.
And then I will check whether it's worth buying knitting magazines in e-format.
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