I have no transcription this weekend and I have decided to take a couple of days off. I might do a bit of Squidooing tomorrow, but today is all about fun. I spent some time in bed this morning with my iPad, checking email, watching Youtube videos, and organizing ebooks. I can’t wait for my case to arrive so that I can hold the iPad more comfortably.

The ebook organization project is going to take some time, but I am absolutely in love with the iBooks app, much to my surprise. I thought it would be a propriety Apple app, but nope. I can put any EPUB books on it. I’ve been reading ebooks on my iPod Touch since I got it, but iBooks makes ebooks look and feel like real books. My only quibble with it is that the in-book search function is terribly slow.

Here is a snapshot of part of my Sci-Fi/Fantasy collection:

Isn’t that lovely to browse through?

Now, let’s see… What am I in the mood for?

This is a page from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Noticed that I have a bookmark noting a page I go to often, that I highlighted my favourite passage from the book, and that there is a little sticky in the margin indicating that I have a note there.

Imagine if I had had this technology when I was downsizing my library! I got rid of so many annotated books that I just couldn’t make space for. I could have gotten e-copies of a lot of those and painstakingly transcribed my annotations into e-format.

I’ve been wanting to go digital for quite some time now and I think that the iPad will allow me to do that. My goal for 2012 is to not bring any more hard media, like DVDs and books, into the rig. I’ve done a complete conversion to digital for music, so I don’t think my goal is unrealistic.

Well, it’s about seven out there, perfect weather for spending time in the rig, so I’m going to assuage my homesickness for a bit and go get an early start on my spring cleaning. Yes, I consider this a fun project! 🙂