Hearts in Atlantis, e-reading
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Last night I watched Hearts in Atlantis with Anthony Hopkins. I liked it well enough to go look it up on Wikipedia, where I was surprised to discover that it was based on Stephen King stuff. I’d had no idea.
That got me thinking about reading some King–maybe the Dark Tower series, which King considers his “magnum opus.”
That got me thinking about e-readers, kindle and iPad. And how there is a Kindle application for iPhone that allows one to read ebooks on it. The app turned out to be free. The first book in the DT series turned out to be around $6.50. Done deal.
I can’t believe I’m reading a book in my phone, but the experience is surprisingly good so far. I think it’s a wise move to start with a real page-turner and not something super dense.