I don\u2019t know how many of you share this with me, but I love reading. A lot. In my opinion, there are very few things as amazing as settling in front of a fireplace with hot chocolate and a book, especially during the holidays.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not going to lie, I wasn\u2019t really a fan of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein<\/em>, but it did give me the satisfaction that reading a book normally does. I was able to get lost in the story completely, even if I didn\u2019t really love it.<\/p>\n The app, however, did no such thing. First of all, I have to say I don\u2019t really mind reading on an iPad. I\u2019ve done it before without many complaints, but this time was different. I found the background of the app extremely distracting and there\u2019s nothing more annoying than being unable to see how far you have to go and there being no page numbers in general. Not only that, but I hated the way the pages changed. In the Kindl app, for example, you can flip pages almost like you can in a book, this one you had to tap for it to go back up, which I didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n My biggest dislike, however, was the choices. When you\u2019re reading a book, you need to be a reader. You need to be able to lose yourself in a different world that will take you away from your own, and if you\u2019re making choices to see how the story is going to go on, you can\u2019t do that. Every time I ended the page, I had to pull myself out of the story, look over the possibilities and decide which one was going to be the right choice. And to be completely honest, because I couldn\u2019t lose myself in the story, I ended up picking whichever one I thought would get me done faster. That\u2019s not what a story is supposed to do.<\/p>\n Lastly, I felt that even though the language was easier to read than Mary Shelley\u2019s original work, it took away from the story. Something about her word choices made it more realistic than this new Victor\u2019s easy slang.<\/p>\n I just don\u2019t think that something so classic, should be allowed to be butchered the way it was to be put in this app.<\/p>\n Oh and P.S., Bill is a much<\/em> better name than Adom. Way to make the reference to Adam and Eve even more obvious, gosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know how many of you share this with me, but I love reading. A lot. In my opinion, there are very few things as amazing as settling in front of a fireplace with hot chocolate and a book, especially during the holidays. I\u2019m not going to lie, I wasn\u2019t really a fan of<\/p>\n