So, yesterday
I talked about technology
and Joey’s and my difference thoughts on the subject. One thing that has come along the pipeline
that’s made crip entertainment easier is the Kindle and other e-readers.
I remember
going through school and college with these thick books stuffed between me and
the side of my chair. You do what you
gotta do, right? At any rate, it was
tedious to go to your locker, get your book if you didn’t drop it trying to get
it out of your locker, stuff it beside you, go to class, and when you get to
class, you need a shoehorn to get your book out. Of course, when class is over, you reverse
the process. Writing the process was
like doing the process. LOL.
I’ve always
liked reading. Hell, I’m a writer now
probably because I read. HOWEVER, then
again, there was the bit about carrying a 200, 300+ page book wherever until I
was done. It’s over 1000 pages. Yeah,
I read it the Summer ’94. It was a bear.
Then, one
time we were at the folks, Mom showed us her first gen Kindle. We played with it, checking the resolution,
whether we could read on it. It was
bad. We did our homework between the
Nook and the Kindle, and she chose the Kindle.
She read a couple books, but it felt and feels weird to her not carrying
an actual book.
I got my first
iPhone in ’09 with the 3GS. BTW, the
smart phone’s another godsend from the god-awful flip phone that inevitably
crip hands couldn’t open before the caller hung up or the honking Saved by the
Bell, which I had as my first phone when I started to walk home from school and
have a social life. And, since we’re
always sitting, no butt dialing, ABLE-BODIES!
Just kidding.
Anyhoo, with
the phone came the Kindle
app. As long as I have money, I can get
any book that’s formatted electronically like Narnia and the Lord of the Rings
series, which, in the combined anthology book, was ridiculously huge. Where was this when I was in school? I’m
probably gonna get the Lemony Snicket
series (13 books) since we’re watching Netflix’s second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I’ll
talk about after we finish binging it.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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