Nine Things That Will Disappear in Our Life Time

Antigone

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How do you do it?

How do you live without the feeling of going to the book store and browsing through hundreds of titles? Picking up one with an attractive cover, getting a wee feel for it? Purchasing it, wrapping it up in the poly-bag so the rain doesn't get to it, feeling a little ticked off that they put the receipt in the pages? Rushing home and getting quickly changed into your pajamas and running up the stairs to your bedroom with a few packets of potato chips and something to wash them down? Sitting down and softly cracking the book open in the middle, smelling the crisp.. newness.. of the pages? Being careful not to crack the spine.. oh no! don't want to crack the spine just yet! And finally sitting back (after eating crisps, don't want to get your pages dirty!) and opening at the first page?

How can you live without that?

Try it. Trust me, you get used to it pretty quickly. I still go to bookstores to browse, except I purchase the digital equivalent. The excitement for a new book is still there when I press the download button, except now I don't have to worry about cracking the spine.

One look at my overflowing bookcase pretty much settled the deal.

Besides that, it's perfect for when I go on holiday. I'm a pretty quick reader. I can get the latest Karin Slaughter over and done with in three hours if I want to. I polished off 200 pages of Bill Bryson in under two hours this morning. When I was in Curaçao last year, I read a book a day, and if I hadn't kept myself back I would have read more. I like the thought of going on holiday - the two weeks of Austria we've got planned for this summer, for example - and not having to lug an extra suitcase of books along.

And if all of that wasn't enough, I love being able to get the classics for free. Project Gutenberg rules.

Seriously, I thought I'd hate it, but basically all the things I liked about regular books, my e-reader has them too.
 
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Rebekka

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I don't know about books. I'm one of those people who always said I'd never buy an e-reader and that I would always stick to hard copies. And then I got an e-reader.
I'm one of those people who will never buy an e-reader. ;) We have a house full of books, and when we don't fit into our house anymore we'll just buy a larger one.

I don't have any modern things except for the computer - and that's a pretty old specimen. No tv, no cellphone, no microwave, no dryer, no car, no iphone, ipad, i-what-have-you. And I'm a trendsetter. Well, I'm trying. ^_^
 
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AMDG

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One thing they forgot about: oil.

Nope. We need oil for more than gas. Check it out. And if Obama would allow us to drill, we have about 200 years worth right here in the U.S. (I don't know anyone here that plans to live to 200 years.)
 
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