I feel unspeakably dirty, but I know that at this stage in my revision process, my life would be worlds easier with an eBook reader. The hour and a half I spend back and forth on the F train each day has turned subway cars into my office. Right now, as I’m pouring over each page of my book trying to inventory the lies my main character has told, I’d love to have a portable .pdf reader that I could go through on the train, and not have to wait until I’m at home in front of my computer, usually totally zapped from the day and only wanting to zone out. Until I get home, I’m starting off into space trying to remember, scribbing in my Moleskine as something hits me intermittently.
Now that I think about it, I probably look really nuts.
I’m not anti-eBook at all. (Hell, as I think about the next two books on my list - Crime and Punishment and Infininte Jest, I start to understand the necessity, if for nothing more but shoulder pain purposes.) And I am not planning to open up the eBook versus paper book debate. They’re different, it’s personal, and at this point, a book’s tangibility is part of its appeal and experience for me. But hot damn, if I could stick a new .pdf of my own writing on a Kindle every night after I do some work, and turn that commute into a productive work space that extends to my book? Color me interested.
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