I’ve had to reevaluate which books were important to me. So I’ve had some messy break-up’s over the years. Still…they ARE heavy, and I’m not talking about fat-bottomed girls making the rockin world go round here. In the same way that cybersex can’t replace the tangible feel of a woman, I will never be totally satisfied with digital approximations. With books, it’s a love affair that goes deeper than words spelled out in ink on a piece of paper.
But there’s a tangible reality that a mere digital file can never replicate.
Not just the album cover art and liner notes–after all, you can download that stuff, too. As for the electronic devices, it’s pretty simple: trade in your mouldering paperbacks and heavy-duty hardbacks for (literally) light-weight digital versions. I don’t own one of these things for the same reason I didn’t trade in my LP’s and CD’s for an iPod: there’s something missing from digital approximations. Namely, digital devices like ’s Kindle (or similar handheld iPod-type readers). Chiropracter visits or not, I doubt I will ever learn to live without them.
Each weighs 50 pounds or more, and the older I get, the heavier they seem to weigh, and the more I reexamine their importance to my life. Suddenly there are ten cartons of reading material that I’d convinced myself I couldn’t live without.
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