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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

The gift of the ability to enjoy fiction, or nonfiction for that matter, has a requirement: an attention span exceeding a minute or two. And that seems to be becoming increasingly rare. Both my parents were readers, likewise myself and two siblings.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember exactly when I started reading Sci-Fi but it was as a teenager somewhere along the line. But I suspect that I\u2019m one of the few people on earth who, while in grammar school, read every single volume of Encyclopedia Britannica cover to cover.<\/p>\n

I really wish that Nook and Kindle were available back then. I started with Nook probably around 2010 and now use both. Point being that every book I\u2019ve read in the last 15 or so years is still available to me. When, in 2009, I moved from my last residence in metro Atlanta where I had lived for 20 years, I \u201cdonated\u201d a long bed and a half pickup truck loads filled to the brim with mostly paperbacks. What a loss! And that wasn\u2019t the only donation made from that house.<\/p>\n

I could have that entire mass of books on around several gigs on a thumb drive with lots of room left.<\/p>\n

But at least I have the last 15 years and I find myself rereading. +The device keeps perfect order, organizing by order of purchase, title or author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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