{"id":2988,"date":"2020-10-22T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:53:33","slug":"ebook-or-real-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/22\/ebook-or-real-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebook or \u201creal\u201d book? #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There was a time, in the long ago, when our only choice was to read \u201creal\u201d books. That is to hold an actual thing bound as a hardback or paperback. We had to hold the book open\u2014sometimes to press it to keep it open\u2014and keep it at the proper reading height. Sometimes those tomes were heavy. Sometimes the binding was such that it took real effort to keep the book open and we creased the spines. If we dropped the book, we lost our place. We couldn\u2019t easily prop it open to read while we ate, or we had to hold the book open one-handed if we wanted to drink a cup of coffee. Those days ended for me when hubby bought me an ebook reader for Christmas. I\u2019ve hardly had a better gift!<\/p>\n

The reader was made by RCA. It had a handle for easy handling and a backlit screen. I\u2019ll admit, I sometimes get new technology and I think about it for awhile before I start using it. Not this ebook reader! I had it up and running and looking for places to buy ebooks right away. Back then, Powell\u2019s in Portland was just about the only place, other then through RCA itself. Since then I\u2019ve bought another reader like that one when the company sold it, and two Kindles.<\/p>\n

We used to move a lot. I remember times when we had boxes upon boxes of\"One books to lug around. Then you need places to put them. Now I can carry the equivalent of those boxes on one Kindle. Granted, actual books won\u2019t run out of power in the middle of a chapter and have to be recharged, but the convenience of my Kindle outweighs the inconvenience.<\/p>\n

People say they like to hold a book in their hands. That they love the smell of the paper. (They\u2019ve obviously never \u201csmelled\u201d the paper when the basement floods and boxes of books stored there have gotten soaked.) I say, more power to them. I\u2019m glad there are still real books available. Using a Kindle cookbook isn\u2019t to my liking, so even I see a need for the real thing now and then. But for the most part? I\u2019ll love and cherish my electronic book reader!<\/p>\n

How about you?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a><\/p>\n

Burning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist
\nOne Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time, in the long ago, when our only choice was to read \u201creal\u201d books. That is to hold an actual thing bound as a hardback or paperback. We had to hold the book open\u2014sometimes to press it to keep it open\u2014and keep it at the proper reading height. Sometimes those tomes were … Continue reading “Ebook or \u201creal\u201d book? #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,1246,1],"tags":[353,602,1607,12,1609,871,1608,70,356],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-dee-s-knight-2","tag-ebook-reader","tag-electronic-books","tag-erotic-romance","tag-hardback","tag-one-woman-only","tag-paperback","tag-reading","tag-reading-device"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-Mc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}