Gadget Overload!

12. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

This book was boring. I didn't like any character and I just wanted it to be over. What I really need to talk about here is not what I just read but how I read it.

For my birthday Chris bought me an iPad.  I needed this like I needed a kick to the head.  Now I have another machine to answer to every day.  As if I am not always looking at my phone as it is, now I have a brand new, giant, really expensive one, that I need to use or feel guilty about having!  Anyway...

I noticed that my library now has eBooks that I can download to my iPad to read, so I thought I would try it out and I have to admit that I really hated reading on it.  I have a Kindle, and it was my best friend when I was breastfeeding Darren, but honestly I haven't used it in months.  I use my computer everyday, I have my phone with me all the time, and books are my escape from all of this, and reading on the iPad is not allow me the escape. I was constantly distracted by what else I could be doing on it instead of reading this boring book!  So the book may have been part of the problem but the real problem is my addiction to technology, it is ridiculous!

The first thing I look at in the morning is my phone, the last thing a book.  Until this week, now the first thing is a phone and the last is a giant phone.  All day I am clicking on something: checking for email, playing some dumb game, ignoring my kid.  And that is the worst part.  At least with a book he sees me reading.  With the iPad he just sees me fiddling again.  So I have guilt; guilt about Darren, guilt about the time drain, and guilt about the fact that my husband bought me this for my pleasure and it has become my pain.  Too dramatic?  Probably.  The answer for now is clear, Dead Tree Books are the way to go for me.