Slow Down!

[valerieloveland]

My reading goal is kind of taking over my life. I set the goal to read 100 books this year and I am obsessed with it. I was waiting around at midnight on January 1 for Goodreads to open the 2012 book reading challenge goal so I could set my goal. The most I read in a year was 71. Poetry books are much shorter than fiction, so I didn't think it

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[valerieloveland]

I don't have one. I think it is inevitable that everyone will have one eventually. I actually want one to bring to poetry readings so I can just read off a tablet instead of a paper.

I love going to bookstores so much, I don't know if I am going to get one for awhile. So many are closing, one after another. It is especially remarkable here because there are the most bookstores I've ever had around me, so it seems like there is always one closing. I decided, even though it is more expensive, after I spend an Amazon gift card online, I'm only shopping at local bookstores. If the bookstores go, a lot of poetry venues will also disappear.

I also have a problem reading back lit screens so I could only get certain ones.

Poetry will be the last thing to switch over, I think, and I wouldn't want to get rid of my poetry books. Fiction is different, I only save my very favorites.

I assume you have one? Do you like it?