Well, I just read a book that seemed like perfect e-reader fare: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. This is super popular, and I liked it, will probably read the follow-up novels, but I’m not quite sure what the great brouhaha is all about. It is, au fond a thriller/mystery with an unusual (to me) setting, Sweden, and one really good character, the dragon tattoo girl. It was entertaining, but no better written than a lot of thrillers, and you could sense him sort of feeling his way in the beginning.
Bottom line is that I liked it and thought it would be perfect e-reader reading– the book copy we have is already a book club edition with cheap paper, fragile and brittle, developing tiny tears. Who needs this kind of physical object? Better to have the flow of the story electronically?
Tags: books, ebooks, mysteries, steig larsson, thrillers, Victorian novels
I’m finishing up this book, and have similar feelings to the ones you describe. I’ve got the hard copy one…I don’t trust Kindle and all that. Not yet!