Booking Through Thursday ~ Travel
A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading. This week’s question is:
When you travel, how many books do you bring with you? Has this changed since the arrival of ebooks?
I don’t have an e-book reader so I still haul around the paper books. How many I take depends on how long I’ll be gone and how much time I’ll have to read.
If I’m traveling for work and I’m only gone a few days I’ll take the book I’m reading plus an extra one in case I finish. If I’m traveling for vacation I tend to take too many books thinking that I’ll spend many hours lounging and reading. In reality it never works that way. I spend time exploring, eating, touring and doing other vacationy things and end up reading only one or two books.
I do try and pick the lightest weight books for travel, that way more will fit in my luggage! I took five on my last trip and read two of them. I’ve also been know to buy more books while on vacation.
Under My Apple Tree 
I am currently reading three books and one audiobook. So I usually bring two books with me when I travel and the audiobook which I download and put on my iPod.
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I always forget about the audiobooks. I’ll load a few on my iPod and then end up listening to the music instead.
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I reduce a stack of about 10 books to 2 trade paperbacks and Kindle when I fly to Asia. The length of the trip is key to how many hard copies I’m bringing. I almost never use my Kindle when I’m not traveling.
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If we are taking a car trip I always bring along at least three audio-books so the family can vote on what they want to listen to.
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Yeah, I issued an award for you as well — 🙂
I would really like to get a Nook…trying to be good, but I’m thinking I need to just throw caution to the wind and pick one up. I travel quite a bit and lugging around 500 page hardcover books isn’t fun.
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