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If there's one thing that is guaranteed to keep me awake its a good book. Screw checking email... just one more chapter.
by buff-a 15y ago
If there's one thing that is guaranteed to keep me awake its a good book. Screw checking email... just one more chapter.
- yardie 15y agoI just burned through The girl with dragon tattoo trilogy and I'm more than halfway through the 2nd book in the Hunger games trilogy (started on the first one on Saturday). Reading on the Nook Color has been fantastic and I only stop once the battery is too low and needs a charge. Like you, just one more chapter...
- slug 15y agoOne thing that I noticed (and backed by circadian rhythm research) is that using electronic bright devices at night disrupts the sleep pattern, making it more difficult to fall asleep, and so I keep on reading. For this reason, I prefer to read with a nook e-ink, illuminated by a nightstand lamp with a switch off timer, say 1 or 2 hours, to "force" me to go to sleep in a timely manner. This way the lighting is not right in front of my eyes but shining somewhere from the back.
- yardie 15y agoAt night I have the brightness set to its lowest level, 10%. And then in the e-reader app, Aldiko, I set it to nightmode (black background/off white text). It's actually quite comfortable to read, but going from the ebook to a website was like setting my retinas on fire. It does stop me from being distracted and lets me focus on the book.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoI do something very similar with my iPhone/Kindle reading setup. Turn the brightness on the phone down to a really low setting. A nice side benefit is that it lets my wife sleep as there doesn't need to be a light on to read at night.
- ajtaylor 15y agoBeen there, done that! I do it less often these days, but I can't count the number of times I went to bed in the wee hours of them morning because I was trying to finish that last chapter, and then another, and then another...