Before Ryan, I read all the time and loved to read. But a few weeks ago, I came to the realization that I haven’t read a real book in about 18 months, since Ryan was born. Shortly after he was born, I tried reading books, but with him needing to be fed every two hours, I would read a couple of pages, get caught up in doing something for him, and then forgot what page I was on, and would end up re-reading the pages again.

As Ryan got older, my attempts at reading would result in Ryan snatching the book from my hands and tossing it or trying to rip the pages out. Not good either.

I thought about it and decided to get myself an ereader, either a Kindle or a nook. I read the Consumer Reports and despite the poor battery life, I got the nookcolor. I mostly did because even though it was going to be my reader, we all know it’s also going to be Ryan’s whatever he wants to do with it toy. And I figure I can buy books for him too and I’d prefer them to be in color versus black and white. I also bought it despite Henry specifically saying not to buy it. I do what I like!

So what has the outcome been? I’m reading a lot more now, every chance I get, which is mostly on the train to and from work, it’s only two stops so it’s not a lot of reading, or when Ryan is asleep. He also loves to sit with me and have me read him nursery rhymes from a book I bought for him on the nook. He’s also discovered that there’s Pandora on the nook, so it’s another device that can play music for him.

I’m definitely happy with the purchase and happy that I am finally reading again. I’ve read about rooting it to get some Android apps and am considering doing that, even though it would void my warranty. But it sometimes does some buggy stuff like flip through the pages of a book non-stop even though I’m not touching it and sometimes it doesn’t react as quickly when I’m trying to flip pages or even to get to other options.

What books am I reading? Mostly parenting books, of course.

The only thing I couldn't do, that I tried, was to create a blogazine on Kaboodle. I couldn't slide the poll over from the right to the left.