I Don't Have Attention Deficit iBooks Disorder

Saturday – Entry 38:I became distracted by iBooks for the Mac this morning. I should have been working on other things (like writing my book), but iBooks took my attention much to my daughter’s annoyance. “Hey, Dad! What about breakfast?”* I pulled myself away, but every ingredient in the scrambled eggs was infused with my frustration and focus on iBooks. I soon discovered, however, that I don’t have Attention Deficit iBooks Disorder. The real problem wasn’t iBooks at all but my screwy attention deficit from Adult ADHD. I use my iPad to read a lot of books. If you follow me on GoodReads you already know this. I also try to give them a written review. It’s how I justify time spent reading. By taking time to not just rate, but review, I process the book and improve as a writer. Organizing all those books becomes an important part of this process. When I heard that Apple was releasing iBooks for the Mac, I was actually excited. Finally! A dedicated app to organize and tag all those books. What a shame I was so wrong.I can only assume that this is stage one of an incomplete project. First, the transfer process crashed on book No.359, so I had to start over again. Then all of my books that hadn’t been purchased in the iBookstore disappeared off my iPad except for a few unfathomable outlier PDFs. Fortunately, the books hadn’t been deleted from the “Books” folder on my Mac, so I could add them back again, except that dragging and dropping the folders to the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Goals ADHD Source Type: blogs