Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users.

My name is Stephen Robles.

Joined by my friend and yours, David Sparks.

How's it going, David?

Hey, Steven, how are you today?

I'm doing well.

I'm excited to talk about an interesting product category today with a special guest.

Yeah, welcome to the show, Jason Snell.

So good to have you back.

Good to be back.

One of the ultimate Mac Power users is also an e-book power user. I guess. Yeah. No, I think so, man. Every time I want to think about buying a new e-book or I go over to six colors because you cover it so much. And we thought it would be fun to share with the audience, just kind of a check- on the state of ebooks and some of our workflows and what we're doing with them and and you're the guy man

okay well i'm happy to i'm i'm happy to be that guy i that is one of the areas where i'm an

outlier in my specialty area but i'm interested in the subject and i use the products so you know

one of the beauties of going out on your own is you can sort of decide what you want to cover to a certain extent. And so I get, I actually get a lot, this will probably come up. I get a lot of questions from people about these large format e-readers where you can have a pen and you can take notes. And I'm not interested in that category. So I have no opinions about it. Like large e-readers and writing with a pen on an e-reader, I just don't care. Perfectly valid category, they're trying to find more users for this, for, for, for, readers in general, I think getting people to use it as a note-taking device and have it be kind of e-paper is cool and all, but I'm not,

I have the luxury of picking my spots, and that is not a spot I'm interested in picking.

So I focus on reading, the reading part of readers.

And for folks, I don't know, Jason reads a lot of books.

So, um, fiction and primarily fiction.

Primarily fiction.

There's nonfiction in there too, but yeah.

Like,

you know, whatever, 80 or 90 books a year sometimes. I don't know. It's a lot. It's pretty good. It's a lot last year. Certainly, certainly 50. I, my good reads target is 52 books a year, one a week. and I've I've been over that.

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