Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love books. I am never without one. At home, I have shelves of to-be-read titles. On my Kindle I have an ever-growing multitude - so many freebies! With the Kindle Cloud Reader, I can access my e-books from my phone or iPad, which are always within arms reach. To say I read a lot is not an exaggeration. If I had to provide a very unscientific average of the number of books I read in a year, I'd say it's somewhere around 50. That's something like four books a month. And that's in a slow year. There have been years when I've read closer to 75 books. Imagine how many books would be read if I'd give up television! Last night, for example, I might have caught up to my co-readers of the MaddAddam trilogy if I hadn't decided to watch the X-Files and then Castle with the family. My decision to veg on the couch for those two hours seriously cut into my reading, which left me conflicted b...