I have never owned and may never own a Kindle or a Nook or any of those things. I love technology. I love that I have access to almost anything in the tips of my fingers. But reading books on a screen is not something that I enjoy. Reading is magical. Turning the pages, underlining my favorite passages, making notes in the margins. All of these things are irreplaceable. Reading literature on a screen takes away all of the magic. I hate that bookstores are becoming lost. No one buys books from bookstores anymore (except me, but even I go for the cheaper version when I can find it online). I have always had a dream of opening my own bookstore someday (my favorite movie is You’ve Got Mail) but that will never happen. I dread the day that books are no longer printed but only accessible through technology. How sad would it be to write a novel and get it “published” but not in paper form? That would be incredibly unfulfilling.
I stream all of my music through Spotify. It is, and may always be, the best ten dollars I spend every month. I have access to almost any song I want at all times. But if you’d have met my in my middle-high school days you would know that I spend the majority of my free time burning CDs. Illegally, most likely. I was an avid mixed CD maker (cassette tapes, sadly, were before my time). In my car I still have a very large CD case full of all my best mixes. Anyone who gets in my back seat picks it up and makes a comment about it. They then proceed to go through my horrendously named mixes and make fun of the girly handwriting I had back then. I always have those CDs on hand for the times I’m sick of Spotify. Like printed novels, CDs are magical.
I’d really like to talk about communication BUT we’d be here for hours because I have a lot of ideas on that...I’ll save it for another time.
I completely agree with you that there is something magical and irreplaceable about reading a physical book. I feel like you become more a part of the story and characters when you are turning the pages. I think it will be really sad if books are no longer produced as a hard copy. It just wouldn't be the same. Haha, I really like how you still have CD mixes. I also still collect CDs and still have a boombox that can play CDs and cassette tapes. I like to listen to cassette tapes every once in a while, still. I guess technology doesn't kill everything that's old school.
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! I agree with you about spotify being the best 10 dollars I spend. I love that you can have access to almost every song. It is my go to when in the car or at work listening to music. I also love the magic of a book. I didn't think about how unfulfilling it would be to publish a novel and not ever see the hard copy of it. That was great perspective.
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