I haven’t quite gotten the hang of reading books with an ebook reader. There’s a barrier for me when it comes to reading. It requires pages that turn, paper, etc. I might get there soon, but I have actual paper books to read.
Not that I won’t read a book on an ebook reader. The Nook that the Cajun and I share has many books, many of which I have read, but the ones I have read were nonfiction. I go through nonfiction books quickly, because many of the books are mostly “here’s why I’m important enough to write this and stories that don’t matter” in the beginning and very little meat. The ending is usually more repeats of the middle and the beginning in various reasons and confirmations. Most nonfiction books can actually be in article size, that’s why there’s articles on how to build a bookcase instead of books (with books still being there, making it a conundrum).
Fiction is different, of course, you can’t skim the beginning or the middle is just mindboggling. And the end is just as important as the beginning. (Given that it’s a good story and not tripe.)
Sidetracked…
So my e-reader has made me discover something else: magazines.
I’ve been drawn into the world of magazines, that rarely ever read before. The reason being is that I get through them in 12 seconds, they have very little content and when I’m done with them, I feel guilty about just tossing it right away so they clutter my house. I rarely buy them.
But now I’ve subscribed to two and I’m actually reading them, but through my Nook. It’s clean, no heavy magazines to sit on my shelf for months until I can’t stand to look at them and then throw them away. And then there’s the part about the magazine not getting lost in the mail, having to handle the drop out advertisement cards that ask you to resubscribe and notices in the mail threatening you if you don’t.
Yes, most of the articles are worthless and the advertisements are still there to be ignored, but I feel like it’s growing on me a little.
It’s helped me to pick out issues that I am interested in, and then discard ones that I don’t like. I can store them for nearly forever. I don’t know why more magazines aren’t doing this, because it’s one of the best things ever. If I ran a magazine (and I should) I would format it for ereaders in a heartbeat.
But beyond that, I really want to rediscover comic books. I never understood comics so much because I’m a “read from the beginning and get to the end” sort and there’s often a chance you won’t start at the very beginning (because the first issue is hard to find) and there’s never an ending, there’s always a “next issue” hanging threat that you have to wait for. I never gave it that much of a chance because I never really wanted to wait for the next issue to get another cliff hanger. As a novel reader, cliff hangers are agony. At least comic book readers only wait a month or two, books take years.
No need to laugh or taunt, geekoids. Hey, I’m still a geek, but I can’t do -everything-.
So soon, I’ll be looking into comic books for ereaders, especially the Nook Color, and sorting out which to read or don’t read. 
So if anyone has suggestions on where to begin, because yes, I’m that far behind (decades), as I want to start at the beginning of a story and not in the middle.
They still make Scrooge McDuck comics, right?
