If you’re a reader of e-books, then today is your day. Happy Read an E-book Day!

Read an E-book Day was first observed on September 18, 2014 by OverDrive, a major supplier of e-books to libraries across the country. If you read e-books from your Iibrary, odds are they came from OverDrive and you used their app, Libby, to check those e-books out from your library.

Since we travel full-time in a 35-foot RV, space is at a premium. Were it not for e-books, I could never satisfy my hunger to read because we just would not have the space to travel with physical books. But thanks to e-books, my library, and the Libby App, I can read so much more (41 e-books so far this year) than I could if I were limited to physical books.

On THIS Read an E-book Day, I’m currently reading “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature” by Charlie English.

Part of the review by NPR (Love you NPR!) describes the book as; “English’s true tale of the federal government smuggling subversive books through the Iron Curtain sounds like a current-times call to action. . . . The book’s allure is intrigue, danger, and suspense in the service of meaning.”

I can agree, the intrigue and spy-craft nature of this program is compelling.

Now, to be clear, I still read physical books. I usually get some at Christmas time and bring the 3, 4, or 5 that I receive with us to read throughout the year until we return to Orlando and I can place them in our storage facility. But, as you can imagine, it would be prohibitive to bring the 50-plus e-books I’ll read this year with us if they were physical books.

So I am thrilled to be able to have e-books to read, especially on this Read an E-book Day.