I Got an Ereader. Now What?
I wrote an article about my first experience with an e-reader for the January edition of School Library Journal. But really, the main attraction is the illustration – an unexpected rendering of me that friends have called “very Count Olaf“. The highest of compliments in my book. Here’s a taste:
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Aww, yeah.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Love that you have 3 cups of Java nested among all those books! Can’t do that with an e-reader…although I do enjoy my kindle.
It took me about a year to get comfortable with my Kindle — I just couldn’t see paying money for digital content that way — and then something clicked. Now I’m buying more of my books digitally than in print.
Kids’ books are trickier. My children have said, repeatedly, that they prefer print. BUT — they each have iPod touch devices, and because their Kindle for iPod apps are synced to my account, we can buy one copy of a digital title (Rick Riordan’s sequels, for example) and each child can read the new book at his or her own pace. Because you can load a book onto as many as five devices at one time. That is a pretty slick advantage. Good bye, buying three copies of that long-awaited sequel at once.
I’m sure the publishers are just thrilled with that, though.
Love the way the hipster baristas almost look Victorian in that illustration.
The Kindle trumps books for reading in bed. My hand is too little to hold a book open without cramping, lying on my side. It’s also awesome for reading while walking the dog, because it leaves a hand free for the leash. (Luckily I live in a university neighborhood where no one looks twice when you do that.)
While I also prefer a physical book to ebooks, I have determined there are many places it’s easier to read ebooks on my Kindle. I find the Kindle much easier to read while on the treadmill (don’t have to turn pages while the book is mushed under the little plastic lip on the display tray) and boats (no pages blowing in the wind).
Congrats on the SLJ thing and I’m definitely digging the illustration. I do have some further comments, though, over at my blog http://www.teacherninjas.com/2012/01/why-so-grumpy-response-to-travis-jonker.html
Thanks,
Jim
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Looks good, Travis, and congrats on the article! You’re ordering e-books from your public library, right? Amazon doesn’t need any more of your money! =)
Have fun with your new toy! I like the points you make about browsing. It is very frustrating to look for what you really want to read and realize that a) the library doesn’t own it or b) the list is 40 people long for one digital copy. (What is this . . . purchasing you speak of? Purchasing . . . books? Hmmm. New idea.)
I wind up using it more for e-ARCs . . . in fact, that’s why I finally bought the darn thing after thinking about it for months. I joke about purchasing books, but that’s one of the things I really don’t like about it. When I do buy a physical book, I can read it and keep it or read it and donate it/take it to my local used-bookstore/lend it to a friend. I can’t do any of those with an ebook except keep it.
I got a Kindle for my dad for Christmas. He loved it and read 3 books on it before I left (10 day stay). I liked it for him because in a place that gets lots of snow and there aren’t any bookstores in close proximity this allows him to have access to books. He also doesn’t like the clutter of keeping real books around. Now I just wish there were more books he liked that could be borrowed.
I hope you have a framed print of the cartoon! That’s worth keeping.