You can get little LED lights that clip onto a book and only illuminate the page you're reading.
Tried several, all crap, still wake the missus up. Also the publisher's push to print paperbacks in 'trade paperback' size with elevated prices to match rather than proper pocketable paperback size makes reading them in bed a pain - they're two handed rather than one handed books.
Anyway, I'm more than happy to use a tablet in bed, much better than fiddling with a reading light or led book light. I was just elucidating why I use one for the luddite.
One of the best things I ever did was actually dump all my reading books at the local charity shop. You only read them once, they take up a lot of space, are totally impractical at the best of times, are heavy and don't work in poor light. Plus they are expensive, have huge logistic and environmental costs.
Bought the ass end kindle on a sale day for 39 quid. Books are £1 to £4 a go. You can share them with your family and quite frankly I don't give a shit if you can't keep them. The thing is so much more convenient. It costs me more to get the bus or drive to the nearest bookshop to get one.
People complain about DRM and tablets and lock in and that but at the end of the day I've actually read a stack of books in the last couple of years. Looking at the history, 35 of them on that device.
Currently reading The Martian by Andy Weir. Which I will be slinging in my bag for the train tomorrow. And when that's done I have a couple of Pratchetts lined up. Electrons don't weigh much
Technical and reference books is another thing though. Those cannot be replaced. Yet. So I have a stack of those.
There are currently 145 books as epub on my tablet and 250 as pdfs. I have read them all but for half a dozen or so that are in the queue. There are about 200 fiction books on the living room shelves on 'my' side all of which have been read at least once, some three times or more. (I'll reread an old favourite from time to time the same way that I'll rewatch Micheal Rennie in "
The Day the Earth Stood Still" or Anne Frances in l"
Forbidden Planet" or even
"The Rocky Horror Picture
Show".) There are another 100 on 'her' side of the bookshelves that I've read out of the 200 odd over there (including my collected Ray Bradbury, that's a hot book). A few hundred have been given away over the years. Add in library books and the ones packed away in boxes and I'd venture a guess at 2000 fiction books read in 50 odd years in total. So a rough run rate of 40 paper books/year.
The ones on the tablet probably represent 5 years reading. Which means that my reading rate has gone up since I started reading fiction on the tablet. A few books on the tablet are re-reads, but not many. So we're into 395 books in 5 years - my run rate has probably doubled after shifting to ebook form.
Moreover I've got a stack of books sitting on the computer representing classics or modern classics I've read over the years waiting to go onto the tablet for re-reading. Things like 1984, the Cherry Orchard, Mr Pye, a bunch more Chekov and so on.
The tablet weighs whatever a Nexus 9 weighs. I don't know what those 395 books would weigh, but I can tell you I wouldn't like them stacked on my pillow next to my head.