in the wee hours of this morning, almost 22 hours ago, i finished “the girl with the dragon tattoo.” to my surprise, i read all 2300-plus pages on my iphone via an app and the santa monica public library’s ebook collection. it’s not my favorite way to read and i don’t think i’ll buy a kindle anytime soon, but it was nice to be able to do yet another thing on my phone that i didn’t have to carry around. notepads, filofaxes, books, ipods, even a small laptop and a small digital camera have been removed from my backpack because one device can do it all. reading on the iphone means i miss the tactile feel of a book, but i like the search function and the fact that i don’t have to hold the book (i ate a whole grapefruit while reading on my iphone and i didn’t even squirt the screen with sticky grapefruit juice!). and i don’t have to wonder just how clean the book’s pages are as i eat with my hand and turn pages that other hands have turned. conversely, ebooks make me more sedentary and i don’t walk to the library to borrow/return the book in question. conversely, again, i don’t have to read with the light on (the jury is still out on this one as i may realize i’m going blind looking at an lcd screen in the dark for hours at a time). with that thought, i will wrap up this post as i have been sitting in the dark now for about an hour both reading and blogging while m sleeps soundly not 6 inches away (silent keys- brilliant!).