The Epistelesslogical Rupture figured out how to check out and download an eBook of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. The Epistelesslogical Rupture has learned in these first few moments that the Epistelesslogical Rupture does not much like the experience of reading books on a computer screen. (Perhaps if college textbooks had been available at a discount as eBooks, the Epistelesslogical Rupture would embrace the concept of eBooks. eTextBooks wouldn't take up tons of space on bookshelves and wouldn't make moving from apartment to apartment such a cumbersome chore. Make textbooks eBooks. Students stare at computer screens for most of their time in college anyway.)
The Epistelesslogical Rupture spends a lot of time staring at computer screens for work, banking, correspondence, and recreation. So the Epistelesslogical Rupture prefers ink-and-paper books and magazines to reading more online. The Epistelesslogical Rupture also loves audiobooks. During graduate school, when reading meant "agonizing work," the Epistelesslogical Rupture re-discovered the world of audiobooks from childhood.
The Epistelesslogical Rupture realized that the Epistelesslogical Rupture could rest its eyes while listening to a book, could ride the El while listening to a book, could scoop nasty clumps of stuff you don't want to think about out of cat litter while listening to a book, could ride the El and drown out of the sounds of screaming children while listening to Jim Dale's narration of a Harry Potter volume, could travel to distant lands in real and imaginary lands, past, present and future, without getting out of bed or opening the Epistelesslogical Rupture's eyes.
The Epistelesslogical Rupture will stick with audiobooks for now.
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