Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Digital Summer

Well summer is almost here for me. A little more teaching, a few more tasks, and it is summer time. I decided that this summer, I am going to make my summer reading, audio books. I traditionallly make a summer pleasure reading list and devour 6-8 novels. I love to read but during the school year, I find that I do not pleasure read. Perhaps it is because I am reading so much other stuff. Summer offers longer chunks of time and it is not unusual to find a quiet morning, stick my nose in, and come up for air several hours and 500 pages later.

I do have several long driving trips this summer and I thought that I would make some selections from my Audible account, stick them on my iPod an do the bulk of my summer reading that way. The verdict so far, great in the car, especially my favorite genre - Science Fiction. "Reading" at night, is not so good. I fall asleep and the iPod moves along oblivious that I have gone ten toes up. At least with a book, if I fall asleep, my finger stuck in the pages remebers where I was. I'll keep you posted on the experiment.

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