Doesn’t surprise me. Everybody’s got their noses plastered to a screen or screens. If I’m reading a book I want to feel the pages, the bindings, the heft. The hot smell of electronics has no charm like that.
I prefer reading a hard copy, too, and resisted e-readers until breaking down and buying the original Kindle a few years ago. I’ve since loaded up with 1,200 free titles downloaded from Gutenberg.org. Great for road trips. Guess I’m what the Bible calls a “double-minded man.”
wiatr over 7 years ago
Doesn’t surprise me. Everybody’s got their noses plastered to a screen or screens. If I’m reading a book I want to feel the pages, the bindings, the heft. The hot smell of electronics has no charm like that.
AKHenderson Premium Member over 7 years ago
It was a dark and stormy audit…
comics.tba over 7 years ago
There used to be a book store chain in Atlanta called Chapter 11. Needless to say, they eventually ended up filing Chapter 11…
GROG Premium Member over 7 years ago
Now there’s a surprise in this day and age.
sneezykevina over 7 years ago
Thanks for the laugh this morning!
neverenoughgold over 7 years ago
In the legal profession chapter 7 often comes after chapter 11…
Dean over 7 years ago
Our local newspapers are going electronic and closing the printing plants. Soon we will be wondering what is all that white stuff piled on his desk.
Guilty Bystander over 7 years ago
I prefer reading a hard copy, too, and resisted e-readers until breaking down and buying the original Kindle a few years ago. I’ve since loaded up with 1,200 free titles downloaded from Gutenberg.org. Great for road trips. Guess I’m what the Bible calls a “double-minded man.”
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 7 years ago
I read about that on-line!