I guess am old fashioned meaning I believe the best way to read a book is to have it in your hand, being able to flip the pages, turn down a page corner, have it on your bookshelf, and read it 20 million times. I will go to the bookstore or regular store and browse through the titles, I will go to the library and check out multiple books for free, and I will go to the used book store and look for both new and old titles. Yesterday I found out something that is unfortunately happening in today's world...my favorite used bookstore is closing its doors at the end of the month because of technology. The Kindles & Nooks are putting these places out of business. I just dont understand why. I mean I do understand but do people not realize that this is what is hurting our economy. Yes I will admit that I do have a "kindle" but it came on my iPhone and that will be as far as it gets. Okay I admit I use it occasionally to download free books and there is a few books I wanted that were only available on Kindle/Nook. But I wont go out to spend $100 to $200 on a piece of technology and then have to spend more on books. Nor do I think the kids need one so I won't buy it. If they receive it as a gift then great,I won't return it, but I still prefer my kids to actually have paper bounded in their hands. I even have them reading older books that I found over the years that grace my bookshelf. Some of those are classics and will never go to be on Kindle/Nook. I love looking at the old Atlases and seeing how borders have changed over the years. I like seeing old textbooks that some people I know used when they were in school. I like laughing at some of the Etiquette books from yesteryear with part of me wishing some of those ideals would come back again.
Why do people want to get rid of some of the things that have been around without question or problems for years? Why are you frowned upon if you don't have it? Why do you need to have the latest and greatest in technology even when the "older" one still works fine? What is then wrong with being old fashioned? I will agree with the idea that sometimes technology is great and I don't doubt it, but there also should be a limit to where it can take us and turn us into. For some reason I wonder if the Disney movie Wall-E wasn't really predicting what we are turning ourselves into?
So for as long as I can I will shy away from Kindle/Nook (as I typed it a commercial came on for Nooks), I will buy those books to put on my bookshelves, I will support the local libraries (for what will happen to them if everything goes electronic?) and I will definitely continue to buy from the local used bookstores.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Various Notes
Haven't posted recently well just because. There is no valid reason why I shouldn't be better at doing it because I have had plenty of opportunity just didn't do it. So again I will make myself do it and come up with some better things to talk about as well which fit the title.
College, it is hard, point blank, especially when you are trying to get your Bachelors within a short period of time so you are cramming as many classes as you can. It doesn't help that you are doing 2 colleges at the same time so when one semester is winding down and final projects plus exams are due, the other college is starting up. So I have been stressed out, freaked out and now definitely have to color my hair to get out those greys which popped up within the past few weeks. But that being said I am glad that I am back to school. Some things have changed and other things have not. It is allowing me though to realize what I can do and where I can help others. I know that I have been lucky because I have some incredible professors who are showing me different things and pushing me to where I need to go.
When you are over 40 and think you are getting older yourself you need to remind yourself that if you are then that means your parents are as well. This month my mom turns 84 and my dad turns 80 (yes I was the after, after, after thought - mom was in her 40s when I was born) and while on both sides of the family those who are senior citizens are very stubborn and refuse to die they will sometime. So when you have a chance tell them thank you. Thank you for giving birth to you, raising you, fixing your boo-boos, wiping away the tears, teaching you to ride a bike, helping you to do your homework, just being there and everything else. You do not know how much longer they will be around so be glad they are.
Was on a diet and then fell off of it and so I need to get back on again. Another thing that has happened with no valid reason or excuse. I should have just not stopped doing it so now I am pushing myself to get back on and get into shape as well. GET GOING CHICK!!! Cleaning you need to get going on that one as well, you did have some reason on that because of homework but now the final exams and projects for the other college are done so GET GOING CHICK!!! Then falls in organization and getting rid of stuff because you can do that as well. Do I need to say it a third time???
Movies what is up with these sequels, remakes and similar plot lines and garbage they are coming out with? Why do we need 2 Snow Whites coming out within a short time of each other? Why did they need to make a movie over the came Battleship? Why do they need a Men in Black 3? Spiderman who knows what? and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...Really? Really? Really? Now I am not saying that some of them should not be coming out because I am can tell you that I am going to be one of the first in line for Expendables 2 because I LOVE a genuine kick-butt movie. Especially when it has the classic action figures in it - Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Arnie, Bruce Willis....
That being said if you haven't seen Avenger - GO SEE IT. Went to it again yesterday with a friend because I needed at break from my homework. Make sure you stay for the 2 extra pieces, well at least 1. It is a good movie, with the action and comedy you want, plus the eye candy to look at definitely adds in a bonus. Thor, Captain America and Hawkeye you can rescue me anytime you want ;)
College, it is hard, point blank, especially when you are trying to get your Bachelors within a short period of time so you are cramming as many classes as you can. It doesn't help that you are doing 2 colleges at the same time so when one semester is winding down and final projects plus exams are due, the other college is starting up. So I have been stressed out, freaked out and now definitely have to color my hair to get out those greys which popped up within the past few weeks. But that being said I am glad that I am back to school. Some things have changed and other things have not. It is allowing me though to realize what I can do and where I can help others. I know that I have been lucky because I have some incredible professors who are showing me different things and pushing me to where I need to go.
When you are over 40 and think you are getting older yourself you need to remind yourself that if you are then that means your parents are as well. This month my mom turns 84 and my dad turns 80 (yes I was the after, after, after thought - mom was in her 40s when I was born) and while on both sides of the family those who are senior citizens are very stubborn and refuse to die they will sometime. So when you have a chance tell them thank you. Thank you for giving birth to you, raising you, fixing your boo-boos, wiping away the tears, teaching you to ride a bike, helping you to do your homework, just being there and everything else. You do not know how much longer they will be around so be glad they are.
Was on a diet and then fell off of it and so I need to get back on again. Another thing that has happened with no valid reason or excuse. I should have just not stopped doing it so now I am pushing myself to get back on and get into shape as well. GET GOING CHICK!!! Cleaning you need to get going on that one as well, you did have some reason on that because of homework but now the final exams and projects for the other college are done so GET GOING CHICK!!! Then falls in organization and getting rid of stuff because you can do that as well. Do I need to say it a third time???
Movies what is up with these sequels, remakes and similar plot lines and garbage they are coming out with? Why do we need 2 Snow Whites coming out within a short time of each other? Why did they need to make a movie over the came Battleship? Why do they need a Men in Black 3? Spiderman who knows what? and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...Really? Really? Really? Now I am not saying that some of them should not be coming out because I am can tell you that I am going to be one of the first in line for Expendables 2 because I LOVE a genuine kick-butt movie. Especially when it has the classic action figures in it - Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Arnie, Bruce Willis....
That being said if you haven't seen Avenger - GO SEE IT. Went to it again yesterday with a friend because I needed at break from my homework. Make sure you stay for the 2 extra pieces, well at least 1. It is a good movie, with the action and comedy you want, plus the eye candy to look at definitely adds in a bonus. Thor, Captain America and Hawkeye you can rescue me anytime you want ;)
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