I love reading on the trail, when I'm backpacking solo. I like it so much that sometimes I spend too much time in camp in the late afternoon, reducing my mileage. I might read 25-50 pages a day.

I don't have any electronic devices (even in real life), so I always carry a book. I prefer that they be less than epic length (To Kill a Mockingbird rather than Gone With the Wind). I also prefer mystery, historic fiction, or historic non-fiction.

I sometimes carry a small Gideon Bible, which works well. Last summer I carried Alistair MacLean's Ice Station Zebra - just the right size to offer in depth reading without being too heavy. Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising and Hal Moore's We Were Soldiers Once are probably a bit thick. I don't like to read AT books on the trail (though I do enjoy them at home).

Are there other print readers out there? If so, what are some of the books you've read on the trail? Recommendatons?