Reading is one of my favorite occupations. I've found that very often my eyes pass over the words without taking in the meaning, but even though, as many books as I read, I get as much knowledge as I can. Reading books is a big delight to me. However I sometimes feel the deterioration of my memory. When I have to specify the information source - for example when I'd like to explain something to others - it's not seldom that I can't recall where in which book the source was written. I frequently get irritated by that. Then I found out about Amazon's "KINDLE". I read several affirmative and negative opinions of the present Kindle users online and those comments sounded very handy to me, and I bought one at last year's Cyber Monday Sale on Amazon.
I have bought several Kindle version books online since then. A few minutes after I had ordered books from Amazon, I could read those books even after midnight. This system is really handy though it's a little sad that my bookshelves won't get occupied by good books. On the other hand, however, I won't be bothered to prepare the store space for flooding books.
To my utmost delight, I can carry lots of books all the time in my body bag and I can read books in my short free time. It's a little unhandy to take notes on pages of Kindle version books more than on paper-base books, but not impossible. Above all, you can use online search services like Google Search or online dictionaries anytime if your Kindle is connected to the internet. I don't need to even carry dictionaries!
The only question is how many books my Kindle can keep, but I'll worry about it when my Kindle reaches its maximum capacity.
(Vocabulary)
occupation [C] a way of spending your time; [=]pastime:
One of my childhood occupations was collecting stamps.
Then そんなとき
読書は趣味の一つ。時々、無意識になって十分な理解をせぬまま、眼だけが文字を追っているようなときがあるが、それでも読めば読んだだけ知識が増えるし、楽しい。ただ、記憶する能力が落ちてきたようで、後で書かれていた情報を確かめるときにどの本のどこに書かれていたのかわからずに困ることがよくある。そんなとき、アマゾンのキンドルを知った。使っている人からの言葉で便利そうに思い、またサイバーマンデーのセールで半額くらいになっていたので購入。昨年末の話だ。
その後、何冊も購入した。本棚に本が並ばないのがさみしいが、多くなると保管場所に困ることにもなる。嬉しいのは、持ち歩いているバッグの中に何冊もの本が入っていること。ちょっとした時間に本が読める。紙ベースと比べてメモを記入することに制限があるが、書き込みできないわけではないし、なにより検索が使えることが素晴らしい。またネットに繋がっていれば不明な単語、用語がすぐに調べられることも素晴らしい。消費電力がごく少なく、また目に優しい照明となっている。
問題はどれくらいの本を保存できるかと言うこと。まあそれは一杯になってしまったときに考えることにしよう。
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