I don’t want to be abandoned without something good to read while on my motorcycle trip this year so intend to take a stash of books; this pile and maybe others I’ve started and want to finish or have recently found:

But in the interests of travelling small (rather than light) the prospect of the unaesthetic Kindle comes to mind. The challenge is to find these titles available for it. However, there’s nothing like sitting down with a real book in your hands, especially the lovely edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom I bought on Abe Books. (It doesn’t look like Being and Time is available to Kindlers) At the moment I will stick with my space-using pile.