Originally Posted by
cyccommute
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” isn’t particularly long. The Iliad is about a bit longer (580 vs 460 pages) and I didn’t feel like even that was very long. It was a loooooooooooooong read but not that large a volume.
My version was large and heavy. It was before the days of UL books.
Today’s paperbacks are really light. I’d take one on a week long trip if it weren’t for the fact that I have old man eyes and need the backlight of my Kindle to read even before dark. I got tired of burning through headlamp batteries reading for hours.
It’s been one of the hardest things I’ve had to accept about aging. I used to have great vision, especially at night. While I was in prep school I was usually on point when we snuck around in the woods to party because I could see any potential trouble well before my friends.