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Thanks I may check them out. Anything like William johnstones westerns?

Paper back book when hunting but only on occasion.

I've read five books on my Kindle this season. Read a page, scan the area, read a page, scan the area,...

Will admit to looking up and thinking, where the heck did he come from.

Saw a stand like this one in Texas except that it was the cab from a late 40s/early 50s truck and wasn't quite as tall.

Not a Kindle user, but I've been using a Samsung tablet for 3 seasons. I love it.

1) It is smaller and thinner than Farmer's Almanac, and fits in my jacket pocket. It is also MUCH lighter than a lot of the books I've taken out to the blind or stand.
2) I have Internet connectivity, so I have access to weather updates.
3) After buying a book off BN, the first season, I have been using Gutenberg.org and reading for free. Mostly I like to read military history when I'm out. G'berg has a bunch of good stuff.
4) I figured out years ago that reading was a benefit to hunting from a stand or blind. It keeps me absolutely still and quiet, but I can still listen. The way I have my reader set up, I look up and scan every page.

It is fairly common for me to have doe feeding under my stand or hen turkeys pecking away nearby.

I also use a Samsung tablet, and can use it with a kindle app and to view my trail cam pics as I use micro sd cards in the cams with adapters and pop them into the tablet. Only problem I am having these days is after I look up from reading a page it takes longer for my eyes to adjust from the close up reading to looking for deer. Things are a little fuzzy for a few seconds...

I hear that about the eyes not being what they were. If you use a low-power bino, the problem seems to go away-- at least for me. I keep a pair around my neck.

The trick with these things is not to go too overboard with it. If you don't watch yourself and set limits, you find yourself absorbed in the virtual goo and you stop hunting. My son, Angus, has the same device, and had that problem. He's 16, and hunting on his own this year. Once I pointed out the problem a year or so ago, he seemed to get with the program pretty quickly.

Some other hints:

1) I can use mine as a GPS, Compass and map, but I would never let me life depend on any of them. As required, I carry backups.
2) I also would not let SKYPE or Hey-Tell be a replacement for my cellphone, or my walkie-talkie. If I get in an emergency, I do not want to depend on a tablet.
3) I found a small pocket-sized device that provides a recharge to my tablet, and other USB enabled devices. It will charge my tablet, my phone, my wi-fi dongle, etc several times over. I keep that out in one of my blinds, and carry it into camp every few days as needed. It extends my use of the tablet by many hours.
4) I bought a retracting key ring and hooked it to my tablet and then to my coat. That way, if I drop the tablet, it is not falling to the ground from 15 feet up.
5) Kentucky now lets you do telecheck from a website. From now on, I'm checking my deer and turkey in the field using the tablet.
6) Adjust the brightness and turn on the nightlight (white text on black) when you're reading before legal hunting. That screen will illuminate you in the blind and you're a dead giveaway.

I took mine elk hunting and read "Killing Lincoln". Good read. I probably only read a couple hours total per day. I'd read a page and then scan and scope, rinse, repeat...

I am surprised by the responses here, I can't see myself being so bored while hunting that I need a tablet to keep myself interested. I seem to enjoy the outdoors, even when there is no action there is always something to listen to, or watch out there.

Very surprising so many pack their gadgets with them.

If I wanted to read, I'd stay at home

I take my tablet, or my phone, both have the Kindle app on them. I enjoy reading after dark while back in camp.

You guys make stand hunting sound so exciting I might just have to but a tree stand. Hiking around is hard on the legs anyhow .

I take a paperback sometimes in my backpack. I usually only read it when I get in the stand really early in the afternoon or hunt really late into the morning, and then it is usually just early/late season hunts. I put it down if it is anywhere near "prime time". Same goes for coffee/snacks. I missed looking at a big-bodied deer last weekend because I was texting my dad, asking when he was headed to his stand. Looked up and a blocky deer is already halfway in the brush. This time of year a guy has to keep a keen eye. Our bucks don't show themselves for long when they area roaming for does. November usually has me hunting with my rifle in my hands the whole time.

I know that some hunters read (books, magazines, Kindle, etc.) while on a stand and a whole bunch of hunters fool with their smart phones (weather, texts, e-mails). This is absolutely not for me. I like to be alone with my thoughts. I want to see and hear everything that is going on in the woods. I want to be ready for that quick opportunity. I DO NOT want any electronic rings, pings, buzzes or clicks.

RS

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I agree. Part of hunting is getting away from computers, smart phones, that new Apple watch thing ... etc.

sometimes.....since my thyroid started taking a chit that if i plan on sitting somewhere for very long i bring a paperback to read or read a book off my phone otherwise i tend to nod off even if i dont want to if i dont have something to concentrate on....

I take one but leave it in camp for a little reading before I doze off. I may take a paperback to a stand.

I read three novels one time while waiting in SEATAC on delayed flights, sure was nice to just buy a new one without getting up and losing my seat (they were few and far between).

I don't care to read in stand and would not carry a kindle anyways under any circumstance. I do carry a small note pad and will jot hunting related maps and information down from time to time. I don't own a so called "smart" phone either. There is no accessible computer network or cell coverage where I hunt and I don't ever want there to be. I am 50 and didn't grow up with any of it, and don't care for current technology trends at all. It is a devolution, more akin to the telegraph than an advancement.

To here y'all old farts tell it I asked who carries a desktop computer, ham radio, karioke machine and disco ball hunting with you. Get with the times. It's 2014

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