Growing Into eBooks
I never would have thought I’d make this move, but I think I may be switching from preferring paper books to preferring ebooks. I always had a thing for books. I loved the covers, the pages, the shapes, the smells, the lore. I collected and hoarded and, yes, read. For years I did this. For decades. And then a strange thing happened. It happened aggravatingly slow so most of the time I was just confused. The books became burdensome. I worried about having an author’s entire collection and if books in a series matched. I worried about how much space all the books were taking up. I bought or collected a lot of books I hadn’t read but wanted to. Or did I? I wondered if I would ever actually reread some of the books I was holding on to. It took a while – years – to get over those hangups. And honestly I still get hung up on certain titles sometimes. But I’ve learned to let things slide by consciously convincing myself it wasn’t very helpful to be such a stickler for completionism or p...