Read E-books, Be E-cultured

I always love to read just about anything. When I was younger, I even read the newspaper that the smoked fish was wrapped in. I love reading and it perhaps helped me honed my English. Back in the day you have to buy paperbacks or hardbounds to study classic literature, or enjoy romance novels. That's a pain in the wallet for most of us. Then when you do have one, it's hard to read them in dim places. And they can be heavy. Nonetheless, it would be a pleasure to read before going to bed.
Then everything changes when ebooks were invented and so are mobile phones and e-readers who support them.
As what I mentioned on my previous posts, my favorite Android phone app is the Adobe PDF reader. Because of it, i am able to read known and popular books. This is free application on your Android Marketplace.
And there is an awesome website that I came upon which contains thousands of titles. It is called http://manybooks.net. Mostly it includes a wide array of classical novels; like The Sherlock Holmes series, The Art of War, i even got the English version of Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, and of course, the Francess Hodgson-Burnett selection. That hits me because I grew up watching Princess Sara and Cedie on TV and they were from her books. I read A Little Princess on my MyPhone TS1Duo And it was magical. The good thing about this site is that its Project Guttenberg goal is to distribute books to many people. Basically, the titles are mostly classics and from what I read on their small print, these books are in accessible public domain after 100 years from being published. So, no worries for infringement. Thank God for the internet and Project Guttenberg. Thank God for my Android phone. It might be cheap and old but it can do what the new OS can. It let me enjoy the pleasure of reading books that I only dreamed of before. They maybe digital, stored in mini SDs, but they are still words that make up a story. Thwy vividly paint places and tell about great characters. Books do take one to places. It makes one cry like what I did when I read A Little Princess. In the end you just became cultured and knowledgeable.

Welcome 2013 ^_^

Thank God, 2013 passed through peacefully for some of us. And nothing
beats the Pinoy way of celebrating New Year.
Lucky, this time our work allowed me to take a leave from Dec 31 to
Jan 1. My husband and I decided to make Tiramisu and spaghetti then my
mother in law would add in her share. She cooks delicious food, so I
dare not compete with her.
It was hard getting graham biscuits. I had to get to another grocer for that.
I was able to finish my tiramisu. Now, for the pasta. I got ground
beef. Am I suppose to wash it? But it seperates. Oops wrong. Should
not have! I never cooked pasta independently, so this might suck. Good
thing it turned okay! Just soury with a lil bit of sweet. Very Pinoy!
Later that night, all you can hear in the neighborhood were
firecracker blasts. We live in Bulacan, home of firecrackers so
everyone has them. But i leave them lighting fireworks to others. I am
not that brave. We set up a table in the street and my husband and
our friends drank. It would be a long one of wine and chat! The closer
we get to midnight, the noisier and the lighter the sky went.
Different colors of sparkle lit up the dark sky. The only other object
who would contest them is the beautiful round moon. My Shinchan, was
so scared. He didn't like the noise and even the lights unlike his
cousins. He was so afraid of the "sawa," he clinged to me hard and
pulled me to go back to the house. Hahaha.
We ended the celebration watching THIS GUY IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, MARE
on DVD while eating our fare. Laugh while we bite. Texting love ones
and friends who are away will just be for later. Philippine phone
lines are so clogged up at this time. Now I am so full. I guess adding
some inches to your waistline can't be prevented. Haha. So much for my
diet.