In Church this morning some announced that there was a group being formed to read and discuss the recent book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. I have heard good things about this and my first reaction was Sure, I should get the book, read it, and join the group. My second thought was Wait a minute, I am reading several books already. My third thought was Just how many books am I reading now? So I made a list. Here it is, in no particular order or organization:

1. The Master and Margarita
2. Restorer of the World: The Emperor Aurelian
3. In Search Of Planet Vulcan
4. Night Fighters: Luftwaffe and RAF Air Combat over Europe, 1939-1945
5. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
6. The Queen’s Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England
7. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking
8. Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
9. David Falkayn: Star Trader
10. The Eagle
11. People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity
12. The Probability Tutoring Book: An Intuitive Course for Engineers and Scientists (and Everyone Else!)
13. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
14. Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
15. Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories

I think Zealot will have to wait. Perhaps a long time. My list of books I want to read someday is much, much longer than the list above.

About 2/3 of the books on the above list are on my Kindle. The others are physical volumes. Someday I might write about the eBook/hard copy debate, but I can tell you right now that my basic answer is both-and, not either/or.