Newcastle University

What form do you use? Do you use an E-reader?

I do use a physical book. I know there’s the kind of Kindle debate, but yeah … I still like books, I’m afraid – it’s books for me [laughs]! I can really see the advantage – when I’m away walking, and I’ve got a backpack, I think ‘yeah, a Kindle would be quite useful’, but the battery would probably run out. […] And when you’re on public transport – I can see the value of it. But books are more than just the content to me. I think they’re something in the house – I don’t know how to describe that except we have a massive bookshelf in our dining room, which, when I finished work, I thought I really ought to tidy up, because once they’ve finished being double-banked and then pushed that way, really it looked a mess. And because I don’t want to climb up to the top shelf balanced on the back of the armchair anymore, because that’s not really a very good idea, I thought I would just put other stuff on the top few shelves, and books on the bottom, and I realized actually I don’t like it because it doesn’t say who I am. So, I think books in the house are a lot about what I feel I am as a person, so I need a lot of them around [laughs]! […]