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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 October 2012 07:07:32AM 2 points [-]

Any thoughts about optimizing book ownership?

Comment author: David_Gerard 23 October 2012 04:56:33PM *  1 point [-]

Electronic copies of every book and a reader you actually enjoy reading books on. I was surprised to find a Blackberry phone doing a decent job of being the latter, a much better job than my laptop did - I read all the time now, whereas I have paper books by my bedside I haven't opened in a year. YMMV, this is a highly personal thing.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 24 October 2012 05:22:43AM 0 points [-]

I'm finding my new Nexus 7 tablet a very good book reading device. Small enough to carry in a pocket and hold with one hand, and has enough resolution and screen space to display almost any sensible PDF readable in full page view. I just gave away my older 10" PDF reading tablet (Acer A500) after not having booted it once since getting the N7.

I moved apartment this month and didn't bring over any paper books or a bookshelf. I doubt I will either. A single SD card is much nicer to carry around than a few bookshelves worth of books.