All my life I have always enjoyed reading books. I reminisce of afternoons as a kid sitting up in the crook of an old tree in our backyard, imagining that I was a dogsled musher while reading Jack London’s Call of the Wild. To being a geeky teenager spending his allowance on the first novels in the expanded Star Wars Universe, thrilled that my favorite movies were continued on in print. Even as a young adult, staying up into the wee hours of the morning, unable to stop reading the Harry Potter series.
As I’ve grown older though, I have found myself in a situation where my love of reading was taken from me. You see, I suffer from a degenerative eye condition that is slowly, over the years, robbing me of my sight. This has, unfortunately, progressed to where reading normal print is too difficult and straining. As a result, I found I had lost one of my favorite hobbies; that of reading. [Read More…]
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