Do you know what Elizabeth Zimmermann says about knitting and reading at the same time? I've learned to do it! I put the Kindle on the book chair - so it's held in place and all you need do to turn a page is press the button on the side - and with scarcely a glance down at my work but instead feeling my stitches, I'm making great strides on the very long moss stitch section of the Bohus scarf. (Having relatively few words to a 'page' seems to help, too, as if I do look away I can find my place again easily).
This is a revelation to me!
Oh Karen, now I see the point of a Kindle or similar! How wonderful to be able to knit and read at the same time, heaven indeed.
Posted by: Rebecca | 27 September 2010 at 04:02 PM
Astonishing! All I need is a book chair...
Posted by: Barbara | 27 September 2010 at 04:15 PM
I use my netbook in exactly the same way and it's wonderful.
Posted by: Ros | 27 September 2010 at 05:20 PM
And probably this way you get less strange looks on the train than me with book propped up on bag and held open with clothes pegs
Posted by: Oxslip | 27 September 2010 at 06:59 PM
Audiobooks,too!
Posted by: Audrey | 28 September 2010 at 07:38 AM
I'm curious, how do you like your Kindle?
Posted by: Kate/Massachusetts | 28 September 2010 at 03:34 PM
I'm loving it, Kate! (There's a bit more on it here: http://www.cornflowerbooks.co.uk/2010/09/a-bit-more-kindling.html )
Posted by: Cornflower | 28 September 2010 at 03:40 PM
I have a very good bean-bag type of thing for my book, which has a perspex bar to hold the pages back. I have been knitting and reading since I was about 6, and I read English at Oxford, getting through several jumpers whilst ploughing through the like of Paradise Lost!
Unfortunately I now feel that I have to be knitting in order to enjoy reading ...
Posted by: Jane Rimmer | 11 November 2010 at 06:27 PM