I am married to an absolutely amazing woman but truth be told, she isn’t the world’s best passenger on road trips. If she has a good book to read she does great, but if not, “Are we there yet?” comes more from my wife in the passenger seat than from my the kids in the back seat.
This weekend, we drove from Portland to eastern Idaho for a family reunion: 10 hours of driving nightmare bliss each way. My wife brought two books along for the drive, but she finished the second about 4 hours before we got home. After chatting for about an hour, she confessed that she was going crazy and asked me if I had anything to read on my BlackBerry. With a tear in my eye, I pulled to the side of the road and revealed to her the wonder of Ereader.com.
Within a few minutes, we had Sense and Sensibility up on the screen and she was contently reading from its virtual pages. That is pretty cool in my book, but the real shock came when we got home and she told me that she preferred reading the digital version! She read from my BlackBerry until almost midnight. I don’t know that there was a prouder geek in all of Oregon.
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