I’m quite amazed that I haven’t yet tried e-reading apart from dipping into free extracts of books once or twice which I’ve downloaded. I seem to find the iPad awkward to hold in bed and am a bit wary of reading from the phone as it’s supposed to keep you awake. However after the kids were round for most of the day yesterday I lay down for a nap at teatime and started to read diaries on here on my iphone, trying to catch up and I did notice my eyes were starting to droop a few times (which, rest assured, had nothing to do with the particular diaries I was reading!) . But I also noticed my neck was a bit tense as though it had been kept in a non-relaxed position so that can’t be good.
Instead of picking up a good old fashioned book one night last week I tried reading with my iPad - I was late in going to bed anyway which wasn’t smart but 2 hours later I was still wide awake and completely alert. At 4 a.m. I switched over to a book and within 10 minutes my eyes were closing!
I don’t get what makes the difference though (as far as I know the screen of the particular iPad I have is okay for reading).
I do have a grip thingie for the iPad which works great when there’s something to place it on like a table or between your knees but tends to slip if you’re just holding it.
And I certainly love the feel of a ‘proper’ book but my last lot of books from the library made me realise it’s time I did something about this now because certain books are just too heavy to hold.
The ones by Andrew Solomons at the bottom of this pile are the culprits in question this time -
-obviously the bottom one is in hardback so presumably there will be a paperback version but given that the second last one is paperback and I’m struggling even to hold that (I have arthritis in my right thumb joint which doesn’t help), it’s probably not going to make that much difference.
How do other folk manage?
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