Positivity and the Power of a Book
By now, many of you have heard of Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reading device. Apparently, this will be the new wave in reading. No more books in the traditional sense. Instead, you will have a gadget where you can input your reading material and read it from there.
Of course, people are wondering…will this take off? It certainly saves in the production department. No more mass amounts of paper being used, no more heavy boxes to drag around when you move. Just one device for all of your reading needs.
Of course, the purists of us sigh. While I’d like nothing more than to save trees, a book is a book. There’s something tangible and beautiful about it. You can lie it on your chest and doze off for a few minutes. You can get lost in the crisp whiteness of the pages. You can hold it in your hand and leaf through it, like a paper treasure.
I have a feeling, in the long run, Kindall will take off. It may take a while but it will.
Saying goodbye to books…ouch.
In the meantime, I will take a hour or so this afternoon and relish the book, in all its virtual glory!
I love this web site and all it’s positive news so I worry about my comments around why something might now be so positive in the long run. But I will write with intention.
This Kindall computer book here brings up a lot of thought. I love books. The smell of the pages, the bindings, the covers, the feel of paper under my hand, font styles and illustrations and even the way they look on my book shelf. It is like rows of wealth right at my finger tips. And every once in a while I get to pass on one of these gems.
The other thought that comes to mind is resources. New inventions are incredibly exciting and wonderful but not all inventions have to become or should become a world wide distribution. In this there is another topic of conversation that holds a lot of wisdom but a simple topic is the use of resources. Water, electricity, plastic, heavy metals, chemicals and much more that I don’t know about. To make computers, cell phones, ipods, modems and the Kindall it takes so much to produce one that it makes me question how often do we need to rely on or participate in technology. It is a question of “Does the price of the environment and our people that work in these facilities balance out what it brings to us?
Everyday we make choices that bring impact to ourselves, the lives of others, to the environment (world, plants and animals). I hope that we all think before we… leap, purchase, act, support or throw away.
I have an old cell phone and old computer and a older car that are beaten up. They work great! and when they don’t work I take them into be fixed. I will continue to fix what is not working in my home well before I buy a new one of anything. I hope more of us do and that I learn more ways of buying used, repairing old and needing less.