Hi all, I just wanted to post somewhere how thankful I am for this community and how friendly and easy it's use has been.
I'm a mother of four, and three of my little ones are autistic (http://www.autismspeaks.org !!) as such, they are very good at breaking, tearing, drawing on, and just generally ruining books. As a former library worker, and bibliophile married to another bibliophile we had a LOT of books.
Had.
Most of these are in tatters, missing covers, doodled in or otherwise ruined. Buying new copies just gives our little monsters new opportunities for ruination. It's tough to enjoy an book when you have to lock it up in a case every time you need to avert a crisis. And if it's reachable, they WILL reach it. Or figure out the child locks. Or just throw things until they smash open.
So, I watched many beloved, sometimes odd or hard-to-find publications got to the big recycling center in the sky. I had always been leery of ebooks, thinking them cold, mehcanical, wondering how a true lover of the written word could "cozy up" to an ebook.
Let me tell you, it's been an eye opening experience finding mobilism. I have not only found countless replacements for the many beloved tomes lost to the years of parenthood, but discovered that, ebooks are ESSENTIAL to my way of life. To be able to read on my phone, anywhere, with the knowledge that my whole library is safe in my pocket/cloud while I carry on through the hectic day, being able to stop reading any time there's a crisis, without having to worry about bookmarks, or locking away my books, is frankly, priceless. To be able to read in the dark, while sitting with one or the other kids while they fall asleep, to be able to snatch a few minutes of peace when I can find them, with all my books at my fingertips..
Well, it's awesome. And this community is awesome, and I just wanted to say; Thanks.
TLDR: Busy mom says thanks for all the books!
Big zen hugs to ALL of you!
I'm a mother of four, and three of my little ones are autistic (http://www.autismspeaks.org !!) as such, they are very good at breaking, tearing, drawing on, and just generally ruining books. As a former library worker, and bibliophile married to another bibliophile we had a LOT of books.
Had.
Most of these are in tatters, missing covers, doodled in or otherwise ruined. Buying new copies just gives our little monsters new opportunities for ruination. It's tough to enjoy an book when you have to lock it up in a case every time you need to avert a crisis. And if it's reachable, they WILL reach it. Or figure out the child locks. Or just throw things until they smash open.
So, I watched many beloved, sometimes odd or hard-to-find publications got to the big recycling center in the sky. I had always been leery of ebooks, thinking them cold, mehcanical, wondering how a true lover of the written word could "cozy up" to an ebook.
Let me tell you, it's been an eye opening experience finding mobilism. I have not only found countless replacements for the many beloved tomes lost to the years of parenthood, but discovered that, ebooks are ESSENTIAL to my way of life. To be able to read on my phone, anywhere, with the knowledge that my whole library is safe in my pocket/cloud while I carry on through the hectic day, being able to stop reading any time there's a crisis, without having to worry about bookmarks, or locking away my books, is frankly, priceless. To be able to read in the dark, while sitting with one or the other kids while they fall asleep, to be able to snatch a few minutes of peace when I can find them, with all my books at my fingertips..
Well, it's awesome. And this community is awesome, and I just wanted to say; Thanks.
TLDR: Busy mom says thanks for all the books!
Big zen hugs to ALL of you!