Reasons:-

1) With a normal book, I find it very hard to sit in one place and keep reading. I sit on my cane armchair for a while, and after a while, I decide that my ass hurts very much, so I shift to the chair on the balcony. Which gets pretty boring after a while because my back hurts, so I go to the bed. Five pages before I decide I need some sleep, so the book gets shoved under the pillow, and….

With an eBook, I keep staring at the monitor. It gets interesting after a while, so I can’t move. I HAVE to stay put if I want to continue. Ah! Masochism at its best.

2) Mood music. I don’t have to keep putting the book down and changing a cd or a track if I don’t like it. Alt-tab and B does quite fine.

3) Ctrl-F is really cool if I lose a thread, or I want to check on a character’s history.

4) Yes, I do have a great collection on my eBook cds. I can read anything I want, anytime I want, without moaning about the other books in the series stacked in Guwahati.

I don’t think eBooks will ever replace the real stuff, though. But it’s nice to know it’s there, all the same.

Reads:
Laurell K Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures : The first Anita Blake, vampire Hunter book. Definitely not mind-elevating stuff, it’s a cross between a hard-boiled detective story and a kick-ass vampire novel. Gory as hell. I really have to get started on the rest of the series.
Clive Barker – The Thief of Always: Very good children’s book, with sudden chills. My interest in Mr Barker’s work remains constant.
Rick Cook – The Wizardry Cursed: Not as much fun as the rest of the series, maybe because I have lost touch with the first couple of books. Should have re-read them before starting on this.
Quentin Tarantino – Kill Bill – The draft screenplay.: Whoa. This was cool. Please Mr Tarantino don’t delay the release dates.
TH White – The Sword In The Stone :Very different from what I had expected. This was supposed to be the Arthurian saga retold as a children’s story, and it’s really that way. Funny and quirky at times, with the Tolkienish habit of characters breaking into song at inopportune moments. There is a hilarious parody of the traditional joust, a staple feature in Knight-books, and White writes this with such a tongue-in-cheek flavour. But it drags sometimes….

Please somebody get me the Matrix:RevolutionsScreenplay before I die of suspense or OD on alternate theories. Or before Joel Silver makes an official announcement to Time Magazine and spoils everything all over again.

Sunday already!