I started by giving the iPad to my wife.

　　The cellphone signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration （沮丧）. I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely breaking away from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio—and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

　　This experience has had a happy ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “I don’t need it,” I said.

　　However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when I’m back at work?

　　There are times when the need to know what’s being said right now is great.

　　I have no intention of giving up my convenience completely. But I hope to resist the temptation to check my e-mail every five minutes, which leads to checking my Twitter feed and a website or two.

　　I think a vacation is supposed to help you rest your brain to become more productive. Here I hope this one worked.

　　28. What do we know about the author’s last summer vacation?

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