I know every texture, nuance and crack of the bedroom wall in my daughter’s room. This learning came from the countless hours I spend in there nursing her, holding her and spending time in that rocking chair.  Did I enjoy it? Well, it was nice the first 40 or 50 times I did it, but after months of this, I started to get pretty bored of staring at the wall.

I tried listening to the radio or my mp3 player during those long hours, but I’m really a reader at heart. Unfortunately every time I tried a book, I couldn’t get past two pages–how do you turn the page when you’ve only got one hand to work with?

Then there was Christmas 2010 and a brand-new eReader and accompanying reading light waiting for me under the tree.

I cannot underestimate the importance of this device in my life and my enjoyment of the time I spent with my baby daughter. It was truly a revolution. And those times that I’d unintentionally get stuck in the rocking chair without my eReader? Torturous.

First of all, you can hold an eReader and turn the pages with one hand. And then there’s the issue of finishing a book before my daughter decided she was finished napping/nursing–you just download another one!

Of all the gifts I received when my daughter was an infant, this was the one that helped me the most to get through those long days and nights. (Okay, truth time: it was the eReader and the cooler full of frozen, homemade food that my brother gave me that got me through that time!)

Now that I’m expecting my second child, I’m already preparing for the reading I’ll do during the innumerable hours of sitting in the rocking chair. I’ve started downloading tons of books onto my eReader, but I still have space for more! Anyone have any ebook recommendations for a mother of a new baby?