Technology is hazardous to my health...

I have recently acquired an Ipad. It is my first gadget-y piece of technology. I don't even use a smart phone, but with my new position as a librarian, I felt it was time for me to delve into technology head first. I must admit, I don't know what I did without the Ipad. It's just so sleek and fun to use! I feel infinitely more cool whenever pulling it out in public. Here's my problem: I can't read it in bed before drifting off into dream land. Not because (as you might assume) the glowing light from the screen is painful to my eyes. That is easily fixed both in the settings of the device itself but also in the settings of whatever App I've downloaded my book to. The problem is I frequently fall asleep while reading and wake in the morning with my book still lying on the bed next to me...but, on occasion, the book has been flung onto to the floor. I do not have a carpeted bedroom so flinging the Ipad to the floor in my sleep would likely shatter the screen. Even that, while annoying isn't really a threat to my health!

If you are a bedtime reader, this will sound quite familiar to you. You only have another page and a half to read before the end of the chapter, and you are determined to stay awake until you've finished. (Which is so silly to me because the next day I have no memory of those few paragraphs I forced myself to read and must reread them anyways.) But, while forcing my eyelids open again and again, and nodding off, all my muscles relax, and I frequently have a habit of being startled awake because the book smacked me in the face. Not a problem if I happen to be reading a pocket sized paperback...but an Ipad?! I'm sure most people wouldn't believe me if I explained that my black eye, broken nose, or swollen lip are from dropping my Ipad on my face while reading in bed! Because of this, I have decided to be sure to always have a print copy of something next to my bed to read at night. So...it's seriously funny that because of my addiction to novel series, my current book of choice is City of Lost Souls the 5th installment in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series that just came out last week. At 535 pages it has some serious injury capabilities! And let's not forget, traditional books are still technology even if it is low tech. Only I could somehow make reading a contact sport!