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I am ashamed to admit I only read about 1 book a year. This down from 4-5 a day when I was a teenager. I'm just too busy with actual responsibilities to find the time for entertainment like that anymore. But I miss it. I am gratified that most of my family are readers nonetheless.
I had been hearing a lot about Peter F Hamilton (a SciFi writer) on Leo LaPorte's Audible commercials for his podcast family. So I checked out the price of the trilogy they were always talking about (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) for the Amazon Kindle. It was roughly 8$, which is a steal compared to paperback. Not to mention hardcover, with some editions going for thousands of dollars.
So I snagged it for "this year's read". Now the Kindle can be hard to get a hold of in our house due to it's popularity. So I read 99% of the book on the free iPhone Kindle Reader.
The book (trilogy) turned out to be a lot longer than I had imagined. I purchased it on July 16th, and I think it was at least a week before I started it, say July 23rd. I just finished it August 25th, reading only for several hours a night to the detriment of many a good night's sleep. I read pretty fast still, finishing most books in one sitting, so working on this for a month was quite an experience.
So I finally went on the Internet after I finished, to get an idea of how many pages it would work out to in a physical book. Wikipedia informed me that the British paperbacks (the only thing they listed) totaled 3,782 pages. Well that explains the month I guess.
However what I really wanted to highlight here, is that I read almost 4000 pages on the iPhone, and read for several hours daily on the iPhone for roughly a month. And that with poor vision, glasses with a less-than optimum prescription, lack of sleep, and no ambient light most of the time. I report that I had no headaches. To my mind at least, the iPhone with the Kindle software has been field-proven to be a great ebook reader!
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