eBook experience

eBook title, author, and web address

Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King (Purchased at amazon.com and downloaded to my iPad.) 

eBook review 

            The book itself is a collection of short stories from the prolific Stephen King. In between banging out epic yarns, he will occasionally put together a collection of short stories which I find is more suitable for my horribly limited attention span. In my opinion, the most moving story in the collection is "Willa", about a husband and wife trying to find their way home.

         Feelings and Thought About the Experience


        I'm officially more of an eReader than a paper book reader. As a student, I've always had great difficulty sitting and immersing myself in a book, and always found the process to be more of a chore than a treat. I had never really considered it before, but after I considered this experience with this book, I realized that if I am reading a large paper book, I am more likely to abandon it if I don't finish it immediately. However, when I read books with my iPad, I tend to allow myself more leeway to step away from a book and return to it whenever I have time.    



                Value of the Book for Education


        As a writing teacher, I think that short stories are a powerful medium for teaching, and I think that if all students were given access to eReader technology, that this would support literacy exponentially. As I previously mentioned, I can only truly use myself as an example of a student's habits, and I feel that if I had been exposed to this technology in my formative years, that my feelings towards reading would not be so bittersweet.