Whether you listen to audiobooks, like to read pages the old-fashioned way, read on an iPad, read on a kindle or read on a nook, you consume information. Let me know if I’m missing another way to read books.
I guess it doesn’t matter how you do it, as long as you play to the best way that you consume information. (Learned this past week that doing this is the only way to increase leadership capacity.) I don’t know about you, but that’s a big deal to me.
Simple question…
How do you read books?
I have one book going on my iPhone Kindle app, then two others in physical, with paper pages, format. Yep, that’s 3 books at once.
Kindle and physical books. In addition to the actual kindle, I’ve downloaded the app on my phone and my computer. But depending on what the book is will also determine if I buy the paper version or the electronic version. There are just some books that require a highlighter, pen and places to make personal notes – that you just can do electronically.
I read mostly traditional books. I get most of my news reading done online. I have read a bit on the Kindle for iPhone app and am planning on purchasing the 2nd gen iPad when it’s released later this year.
Multi-task reading…I read multiple books at one time. Not all at the exact same time just that I am reading several books; not just one at a time. I find it keeps me from getting tired of one subject and it keeps me well rounded in what I am taking in. Right now here is what I am currently reading (which means I pick them each up at least once a week)–
Seeking the Face of God by Gary Thomas
Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas
Humility by C.J Mahaney
Why Does He Do That by Lundy Bancroft
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Faithful God by Sinclair Ferguson
I read them all the old fashioned way but am thinking an e-reader may be the way to go…if I could convince my pocketbook!
I don’t have an iPad yet but I’ve read a couple books on my iPhone Kindle app and I think I still prefer flipping the pages of a real book. I may change my mind when we get an iPad though.
Physical books all the way! The feel of those crisp pages on my fingers, the look of that sleek spine resting on my desk — how could anyone resist?
I also read one book at a time. I have been doing at least one book a month since May, but recently Dallas Willard’s “The Divine Conspiracy” has been a long, slow journey (a thick book rich in wisdom).
Seems like physical books get the win!