Burradoo Journal

By Burradoo

Book or ipad?

Since Covid most of my reading has been on the ipad. It’s easier and possibly safer than going to the library or the bookshop. Now I’m enjoying the look and feel of a real book again.
 
There are some things I miss though. With a real book you can’t change the font or the font size, and you can’t lighten or darken the page. When you don’t remember who someone is, you can’t immediately find where they were first mentioned. You can’t look up the meaning of a word or check something on the web without leaving your chair, or your bed.

On the other hand you can’t put a bookmark in an ipad. Life is full of small compromises.

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