It’s not screen time, it’s book time

Printed media is not dead by any means, as millions of people still prefer to curl up with a good book. Personally I love the smell and touch of a book, whether old or new. However, I’m excited that two of my e-books are now available on Amazon as well: check out The Wealthy Artist and On My Way. But first, why e-books?

Well, e-books make sense. Since books are almost all text, an ebook download is very fast and hundreds of ebooks can fit onto a small storage card. E-books do not contribute to cutting down forests, they do not need to be trucked across the country, they do not produce waste, and they are usually a lot less expensive than printed books. E-books also have many other advantages. Depending on your e-book reader software, an e-book can be annotated, bookmarked and searched. The latter is especially useful; I often want to go back to a certain quote or paragraph in a book, and electronic search is so much easier than searching through a printed book.

Most computers can read p…