Photographer and author David duChemin recently released three ebooks targeted toward helping beginner-to-intermediate photographers.
Two ebooks cover basic photography principles and the third focuses on composition. I plan to purchase one entitled “10″ to test a recent discovery.
I discovered that I concentrate better and speed-read less when I read a book on my iPhone. Despite my love of the feel and look of paper, book cover designs, and joy in seeing books on a shelf or piled on a table, I just can’t seem to read without becoming distracted. My theory: the high resolution of an image and text on the iPhone screen, plus the light weight and close focus offers comfort and few distractions. The only distraction occurs when I stretch out on my side and the screen moves vertically or horizontally.
I’ll pay $5 for one of Chemin’s ebooks, since I like and own his paper books, to see how they compare. Meanwhile, I’ve downloaded the complete works of Shakespeare to my iPhone. There’s a reading challenge–and a contrast from the past. What would Shakespeare think of this?
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare / Hamlet Act 1. Scene V abt. 1601
As a side note, I’m also writing and adding this to the website using, you guessed it, an iPhone.