I take good books for granted. I appreciate them--but frankly, I assume there will always be books I want to read.
I mean plain old fashioned books--words on paper, with a cover. Everytime someone starts speculating about books being out of date, ebooks being the wave of the future, yadda yadda...I cringe.
I don't think I'm in that much danger, though.
How 'bout you?
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Libraries. They are such wonderful resources, and they get the meager scrap leftovers from most places budgets.
Sad really.
And of course Librarians, secret mistresses of all arcane knowledge
Oh, I love books! Real, honest-to-goodness books you can hold in your hands.
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I think I take technology for granted to some degrees--the ease with which we can now communicate. Every once in a while I realize if I want to get in touch with someone, I can call on the phone, the cell phone, send a fax over the phone or the internet, leave a message on a blackberry, send an email, or an instant message, or have a chat, plus there's still telegrams and...and that dinosaur the paper letter.
And it just strikes me as amazing. And yet I still wish I could just be there, instead of just being all wired up.
The relative ease with which we cover even fairly short distances these days. I went to the movies in the next town over on Sunday- a round trip of 16 miles- and it dawned on me that walking at a brisk pace the whole journey would have taken me 4 hours.
Its amazing to me that our prehistoric ancestors spread out like they did, especially with nothing to read on the journey.
I take my own health for granted which is really pretty stupid. But I never claimed to be the sharpest pencil in the box.
I love books so much. The convenience of reading a story almost immediately online or in an ebook is nice, but there's something about cuddling up on a couch, next to a fireplace, or out on the terrace on a sunny day, that can never be replaced. And, To me, a day in the library is like heaven.
I discovered on Friday that I took it for granted that folks would just look at me as plain ol' Dawno...nothing special, nobody to worry about if she got into a weird ruckus on the TIO about sparklies.
I know better now.
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