All my book are eBooks or Audible books now

My “to read” book list is always growing faster than I can read.  From time to time I just buy a bunch of them in the Kindle format to keep my wish list down.  I now have over 20 books I haven’t read yet on my iPad, but getting them on my iPad is the first step.  Once they are there, I will read them eventually.

For some reason, I haven’t gotten around to reading any of Phil Plait’s books yet.  I have no idea why I haven’t.  I read his blog every day, and love everything he does.  His first book, Bad Astronomy, is not available on Audible.  I moved it right to the top of my Audible Wish List, which is another wish list that grows faster than I can keep up with.  It will be my next Audible listen when I get my next book at the end of the month.

The iPad might not be the most perfect ebook reader, but it works great for me, and has more uses than just an ebook reader.  I now seldom read paper books.  It’s either an ebook, or an audible book. 

I hate the fact that Audible, and Amazon’s Kindle books contain DRM though.  In the past I refused to spend money on DRMed products, and probably still wouldn’t if it wasn’t so easy to remove.  It’s a little bit of a pain, but I strip off the DRM from my Audible, and Kindle books right after I download them.  I want to be able to read or listen to my media the way I want.  I prefer the iBooks app on my iPad over the Kindle app.  Once DRM is removed, I can read Kindle books in the iBooks app.  Just like Amazon’s MP3s, and now iTunes, as soon as a non-DRM book store opens I am there.