{"id":4400,"date":"2017-01-23T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:39:43","slug":"a-reading-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/23\/a-reading-frenzy-4400","title":{"rendered":"A Reading Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent vacation in Thailand at Phuket Island, I bought an e-reader. It&#8217;s not a dedicated reader, like a Kindle or a Nook, but, instead, it&#8217;s a phablet&#8211;a phone and tablet combo. The device is a Lenovo Tab3 7 Essential, and it also fills in as a good e-reader. Until I bought it, I had been using my old Palm PDA with its 2&#8243; x 3&#8243; screen, which made for some difficult reading (without showing any photos, charts, maps, etc.) The Lenovo has a 7 inch screen and shows all graphics nicely. I can use the Kindle reader app with it, or Adobe Reader or any number of other readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lenovo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lenovo.jpg\" alt=\"Lenovo Tab3 7 Essential\" width=\"239\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lenovo.jpg 239w, http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Lenovo-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately, then I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of free time reading various books. I recently finished &#8220;The Picture of Dorian Gray,&#8221; which can be found on the Internet for free (along with thousands of other books that have expired copyrights), and I&#8217;m now reading &#8220;The Lost City of the Monkey God&#8221; by Douglas Preston. It&#8217;s an at-times fascinating true story of the search for the fabled White City (Ciudad Blanca), lost in the jungles of Honduras for 500 years. I downloaded it from Amazon E-books for a relatively cheap price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Monkey-God.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Monkey-God.jpg\" alt=\"Lost City of the Monkey God\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Monkey-God.jpg 200w, http:\/\/montanaron.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Monkey-God-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a number of other books on my near-future reading list, including &#8220;Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil&#8221; and various sci-fi and historical fiction novels. I&#8217;ll be far from bored when I lie down on my canvas lounge (beach) chair on my front porch on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Bliss, of a sort. More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent vacation in Thailand at Phuket Island, I bought an e-reader. It&#8217;s not a dedicated reader, like a Kindle or a Nook, but, instead, it&#8217;s a phablet&#8211;a phone and tablet combo. The device is a Lenovo Tab3 7 Essential, and it also fills in as a good e-reader. 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