In addition to bouncing around the left-hand-side of New Zealand’s roads for a few weeks, our sub-equatorial trip will also require some forty-odd hours in a plane/at airports overall, so a HUGE part of our prep for the trip has included Dr H and I stocking our Kindles with reading material!
The name of the game for this trip? Predictably, nerdtastically, Dr H and I will both be gorging on epic fantasy. Our literature just has to suit the scale of the landscape we’ll be exploring, you know? Behold, my choices:
And Dr H (in addition to Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings) is going with:
And, because he’s like that, he will also be reading some New England Journal of Medicines. I won’t share the covers with you, because frequently they are disgusting to me and I freak out at the mailbox.
What about you?? Do you prefer to read a particular kind of book while you’re traveling? Do you use a Kindle, or do you pack seven real books in one purse?
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Have you read Game of Thrones yet? If not, you are going to get sucked right into it. Great choice!
Have fun! I’m totally jealous. I’ve always wanted to see NZ.
Taking LotR books to NZ–is this like taking a travel guide? :)
I don’t travel too much where I get the opportunity to do a lot of reading, so I usually just take whatever book I’m currently reading. I don’t yet have an e-reader (though I really would like an iPad), but when I do eventually get one, I daresay I would travel with that.
i still stuff the suitcase with books, but after taking a week-long trip to hawaii last spring, i told myself the next long-distance vacation may require me to break down and get an e-reader.
have fun on your trip! i’ve always wanted to visit NZ.
I prefer hardcovers for traveling because they hold up, and because I avoid them the rest of the time (long commute with lots of walking + overstuffed purse + hardcovers don’t mix). Assuming my trip is mostly stationary once I get where I’m going.
I usually bring my eReader on trips and ignore it the rest of the time, too. Print 4eva!
As my suitcase and backpack can currently attest, I travel with books– though perhaps when I (eventually) get an ereader I’ll switch allegiances. I can’t imagine myself ever completely giving up print, though.
Hope you have a fantastic trip, and that you love GoT! It’s on my list, too.
Have an amazing trip!
I always like to read my BIG books while traveling because they take me longer to get through and I don’t have to bring as many. I don’t have a Kindle, so it really is like seven real books in one purse unless I bring my huge books…then it’s like three huge real books in one purse.
The Hobbit! Oh my, I loved it so much I wrote some bad fan-fic right after. But we will not talk about that now. *ahem*
I usually put a bunch of my favourite books in my hand-carry bag, but now that I’m hoping for an ereader for Christmas/my birthday, maybe I won’t have to lug around all those books :)
KINDLE, baby! have a wonderful time in NZ!!
I packed so many books when I came home to visit my parents, I actually had to pack my bigger suitcase in order to accommodate them all. After all, there’s nothing worse than running out of books to read.
Last Christmas, I was reading A Game of Thrones on the plane. (This actually led to the guy sitting next to me to hit on me. Which would’ve been nice, aside from the fact that I was a) reading, b) had my headphones in, and c) had a mouth full of food.) It’s good. Except the end made me want to throw the book at the wall, so there’s that, if you haven’t read it yet.
This year I went for the YA. I threw in a couple history books, too, but the pile is overwhelmingly YA.
So much epicness! I actually don’t read a lot when I travel. I think part of it is that I get motion sick, so reading – even on a smoothly plane – is iffy for me. Like I’d rather not risk the potential for airsickness. So I am frequently knocked out by narcotics or watching movies.
But I do sometimes bring a book a long in case but only ONE. I just got a Kindle this year, but haven’t had much opportunity to travel with it. I did take it on one short business trip, and it was pretty awesome. So convenient, etc.! Travel aside, though, I’m in the print forever camp. :)
AHHH YOU ARE IN NEW ZEALAND RIGHT NOW. So fantastic! I don’t read any particular type of book when I travel, but I’m even more judgmental than normal because I want to be able to enjoy those precious hours when I can read, you know? I’ll be embarking on a 12 hour journey to Japan on Monday so I’m looking forward to picking out my books too!
I hope you’ve seen the trailer for The Hobbit, btw!!! AUGH!!! Can’t wait!