Mariefred, Sweden. My business trip travel companions, when my wife isn't with me. I used to travel with three or four heavy books and often fall prey to a couple more at the airport bookstores. Now I take an e-reader called the Nook sold by Barnes & Noble. It fits in my jacket pocket. Oh, an some Cabernet is a good traveling companion, too.
Although now I'm considering an iPad, I do like my Nook. (It's similar to the Kindle from Amazon.) I read Don Delillo's White Noise on this trip.
For the last ten years or so, I've made an effort to stay a weekend wherever my business trip takes me to sightsee. This time I went to Mariefred as an outing from my business in Stockholm. This photo I took aftern having walked around Mariefred for 6 hours - I returned to the hostel to read and sip a nice cabernet in the sun on the deck at a weathered old picnic table, the wood of which is in this photo.
I like my Nook but regret one thing: The Kindle has a much better dictionary and allows your to even go to Wikipedia is the dictionary isn't good enough. The Nooks navigation to the word (to look-up) is also cumbersome. Hopefully this will be improved in a future software release.
The iPad is on a whole different plane....
brandsvig, Peter✔, **Ms Judi**♥, and 7 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Toi-Vido 38 months ago | reply
Really beautiful picture nice shot, well done
Greetings from Iceland
Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits 38 months ago | reply
great shot!
nina's clicks 38 months ago | reply
Great composition and reflections, very nice!
Look at the Birdie! 38 months ago | reply
Nice! And lots of great shots from Mariefred. I guess you don't regret saving Arholma for next time.
tootoo-art 38 months ago | reply
great picture!
ΛИШΛR 38 months ago | reply
Impressive composition...
bytegirl24 38 months ago | reply
cool composition!
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Giancarlo Villanueva 38 months ago | reply
love your composition.
Peter✔ 38 months ago | reply
great shot! very sharp
**Ms Judi**♥ 38 months ago | reply
beautiful compostion and words.. thank you for sharing a piece of you with us... xo
jumplittlelisa aka Lisa Breslin 33 months ago | reply
Nice picture! I used this in a blog! blog.cosgrovehill.com/around-town/e-reader-battles/
black_coffee_blue_jeans 23 months ago | reply
LOL! i am reading my nook and drinking red wine right now.
nook original and the new nook black and white are both way better than ipad for reading books, i know because i own nook original and my friend owns an ipad, after we switched devices for a couple of hours, my friend had now decided to buy a nook :-)
Lambco 5 months ago | reply
This is great! Do you mind if I use it as my twitter thumbnail? I am starting an account where I post free Ebooks. If so, how would like me to credit you? twitter.com/FreeCyberReads
black_coffee_blue_jeans 5 months ago | reply
Sure go ahead and use it. If possible pls add a link back to my flickr acct, would appreciate that.