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So, I read an eBook the last couple of days. Not my first . . . I started reading eBooks last year. There are many things that I like about eBooks but I will always love me my print books. Here, in no particular order, are the things that I do and don't like about eBooks (I read on dh's PDA using Mobipocket FWIW).

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Yes, this is supposed to be a blog entry. I haven't finished the book yet (this is an autobiography). I've been able to read only a bit at a time for several days now and when I stop to tell whoever is nearby and try to purge the tears in my heart, the tears in my eyes and throat just get in the way . . .

Last Friday was D.E.A.R. -- Drop Everything and Read -- Day. I don't know if it's just in the USA nor do I know who designated it. The National PTA? A Publisher (when I googled it, a publisher's site was the first one to pop up)? At any rate, at my kids' school, parents were invited in for the first hour to DROP EVERYTHING AND READ.

I had to take dh's car to the dealer for a recall fix and a couple of routine things this morning. When we traded cars yesterday, I put three books in his car: the one that I was reading plus the next two I think that I'd like to read from my massive TBR. When I brought things in from the car last night, I left the two yet-to-be-read books and brought in the other (to read in bed last night, of course). Worried that I might forget my current read today but

We have company coming, so thought I'd do my Q1 review now. I know I could update my stats regularly in my bio but I'm just too lazy to change it regularly and thought doing it quarterly is probably often enough.

DH and I were discussing audio books this morning (in part b/c I'd left the case for the latest "read" that the kids and I are listening to at his place and it is unabridged except for taking out things like "s/he said" which aren't necessary when it's a full-cast book).

If you read the Anne of Green Gables books growing up (or later, too, I guess), I'm just wondering how you pronounced Avonlea in your head? I'm listening to two different recordings (just started) so I can decide which reader I like best and one pronounces it with the first "A" as a long A = AA-von-Lee and the other with a short first "A" --Aaa-von-lee. Naturally, the one that doesn't match how I always imagined it was pronounced is like being slapped every time the reader says it . . .

I'm about to "Book Review" the second book in the second Athena Force Continuity and it got me thinking . . .

How many continuity mistakes do you notice in such series? Does it seem to depend on the series itself? Do you think you can tell if the authors and editors worked well together? And how responsible do you think the team bringing us such books should be for getting little details right?

I dreamed last night that I was in France again. I had forgotten something very important but Sadhbh saved me. No idea what it was but she came through! And all sorts of people who were supposedly my cousins were there preventing me from getting to my landlady (I could see her, I just couldn't get through the crowd) and the dream just got stranger from there.

Those of you who have been around awhile and who have great memories will recall that I only started listening to audio books a couple of years ago. And I've enjoyed it. Oddly enough, my kids have gotten hooked and we listen in the car. Which means that I'm getting to enjoy children's books, too. And that led me to wonder if I could re-read old favorites from when I was a tween and teen.