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I’m on my eleventh book since I bought my Kindle in October 2009. That makes, let me see, eleven more books than I would have read otherwise. To show the advantage, I’ll sort them out by “motivation.”Back in pre-Kindle days, I never would have considered buying so many even if they were so inexpensive–just trying to figure out where I would put them! This way I get immediate gratification and the only fuss is my credit card statement.

Books I bought immediately after I read the review in the newspaper:

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose

Fly By Wire by WIlliam Langewiesche

Books I bought because my sister recommended them:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler

The Writer as Migrant by Ha jin

A book I bought right after seeing the movie on which it was partially based:

My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme

Books I’ve been wanting to read anyway, and there they were:

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Garlic and Sapphires: the Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

A book I bought because it was only about $3:

The Non-Fiction Works of  Mark Twain

本をアナログで読むかディジタルリーダーで読むか、討論は続きますが、一番得しているのは読者です。こちらでは、星野富弘の『愛、深き淵より』の英語版(Love from the Depths: the Life of Tomihiro Hoshino)の元出版社の立風書房が学研に取得されて、学研はとりあえず続版を考えていません。このような本はディジタル状態でいつでも手に入れることができれば、win-win situationだと言えるではないでしょうか。また、忘れてはいけないことの１つは、ディジタルリーダーを使いたくない方は印刷した本を読めば良いと思います。私としては、アマゾンのキンドルを買ってから、アナログの本を前よりも買うようになりました。一旦買い出すととても止めにくい習慣です。