Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

(As an aside to <174>, there are kindle apps for iOS and I imagine
the other one as well.  Don’t need to buy the device (my 7 doesn’t
seem to want to charge anymore).
  

    
Yup. I read mostly on my iPad because it has a bigger screen than
the Kindle.  But more distractions - so sometime I stick to the
Kindle.  There's even a Kindle app for Windows.
  

    
I read ~100% of my e-books in the Kindle app for my iPad. The only
exceptions are if I'm stuck in a waiting room or equivalent and then
I fire up the Kindle app on my iPhone.  For me, the distractions are
a *plus*. I like looking things up on Wikipedia or Google Images or
other references while I'm reading. A special thrill is when I know
I've caught out an author for making stuff up or exaggerating the truth.
(I know, juvenile, but it's fun.) Occasionally the distraction sends me
down a rabbit hole, but is that really so bad?  It's not like there's
a deadline for finishing the book!
  

    
I also frequently look up thing in Wikipedia and Google maps while
reading.
  

    
as a child, we were brought up with the Holling C. Holling books,
some of which had illustrations or diagrams in the wide margins.  So
for years, I decried the publishing industry's unwillingness to do
something similar, instead of the very occasional and separated page
of illustrations.  It seemed so obvious; was it just cost-cutting or
unconsciousness that stopped a simple solution?  Until the internet.
Now I can see what it feels like to walk into a street market in
Bangkok, or see a villa in Tuscany, while I'm reading