{"id":268,"date":"2010-08-13T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-08-13T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:37:12","slug":"english-reading-material-for-leisure-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/08\/13\/english-reading-material-for-leisure-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"English Reading Material For Leisure in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"DSC03166\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we get ready to fly, we are gathering all sorts of things we feel we will need to return to Changzhou. \u00a0One of the important things we need to take is a lot of reading material. \u00a0Of course we have access to the Internet and the reading resources of on-line newspapers and such, but I am talking about books. \u00a0Both Maureen and I have Sony eReaders thanks to our adult children who bought us these birthday presents knowing we will constantly be travelling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/bestseller\/ebook-store-canada\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"sony store\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sony-store.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>Why use an eReader to read eBooks? \u00a0Well, the biggest reason is room in the baggage as well as issues of weight. \u00a0How many books would we read in a year, especially since we both have different reading interests? \u00a0We took a few dozen books the first year and ran out. \u00a0The second year we took almost three dozen books and still ran out. \u00a0So this year, we are taking about the same number of books on our eReaders. \u00a0Of course, I will still be taking a number of print books, especially language, photography and psychology resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281\" title=\"kobo\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kobo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>We are using both <a href=\"http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/bestseller\/ebook-store-canada\">Sony<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/\">Kobo<\/a> for ordering eBooks. \u00a0We checked out other eBook providers and found them to be more expensive and that was enough to drop them from our list of book providers. \u00a0As well as buying books, we are able to borrow eBooks from our provincial library system.<\/p>\n<p>I will admit that there is an extremely limited amount of English books available for sale in various bookstores in China. \u00a0Even Shanghai offers only a very limited selection of books. \u00a0English book titles by English authors contain, for the most part, Chinese text for the Chinese people. \u00a0With few English-speaking people in China, the market is too small to support the import or the publishing of English books. \u00a0So, if you are interested in reading while in China, you need to bring most of your reading material with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready to fly, we are gathering all sorts of things we feel we will need to return to Changzhou. \u00a0One of the important things we need to take is a lot of reading material. \u00a0Of course we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/08\/13\/english-reading-material-for-leisure-in-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,69,131,140,161,202],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-ebooks","tag-kobo","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-sony-ereader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}