The Ebookwise ebook reader I received for Christmas has given me a surprising new relationship with books!

I have been a voracious reader since I was very young, a habit picked up from and supported by my parents, particularly my father. The University Bookstore in Seattle was open late on Thursdays back in the olden days and when I was a child it was a major treat to be taken to the bookstore with him. This was back when I could buy three middle grade kid's books for less than $5.00! What heady days those were...

Once I started reading romance in the mid-nineties, I bought voraciously but also traded with friends and about five years into my reading started reviewing books too. Fiction has mostly been a throw-away commodity for me ever since. Read, then trade, give to Goodwill, whatever. Get the piles out of my house! My keeper shelves are mostly research books of one sort or another.

Now though, I am gathering ebooks on my ebookwise. I find myself loathe to delete them when I am done. In many ways I am a packrat, it is true, but there's more to it than that. I find myself reopening books I read before, and even loading ebooks that I bought and read before Christmas onto the Ebookwise so I can read them again. I almost never reread books before this, but the electronic reader is giving me an easy, no-space-wasted, way to do this.

You know what? I'm finding many books can be dipped into and enjoyed again. In a different mood I may see them in a different way, or I might just need to relax with a previously tested and enjoyed comic romance, just as cute the second time around.

I love my ebook reader!

Heather Hiestand

Author of Cards Never Lie, a March romance release from Cerridwen Press