Entries tagged with future

I don't do New Years resolutions, but as I look ahead to the last kid to graduate reaching that goal in June I realize it's time to shift gears more thoroughly to a Grown Up household instead of a Kid household - whatever that means. Frankly, the "empty nest" sounds pretty good some days, though I love my kids, and I sincerely hope they can each find their feet well enough to get their own homes before too long. Besides, my house is FULL of extra furniture and stuff they've stashed away for their "own apartment someday."

For a baby step into this next season, I'm thinking I'll be winding down my Etsy shop and looking into getting a part time 'real' job this next fall - I love Etsy, but it isn't remotely enough to make a dent in our mortgage and I would very much like to work on getting that paid down. We'll see what happens, I'm not particularly marketable but there may be something that comes to hand.

I noticed a news article about a 'library' in New York that was entirely bookless - they just had displays of e-books and allowed checkout of readers loaded with five books apiece. They were touting it as The Future, naturally. Like The Future is always supposed to be a *good* thing, and we should all accept it will inevitably come. Implication being that if we don't accept The Future we are backwards, knuckle-dragging 8-track listeners who still think digital watches are a pretty cool thing.

As for me, I see a phrase like "bookless library" and my entire inner being goes "Nope nope nope nope nope nope. Nuh-uh. Not gonna happen."

Too many strikes against the e-readers - like not being able to read with half of one eye open and the rest of your face buried in a pillow. And your brain processes the information on a lit screen differently than when it is on a printed page. Buying them for .25 at a garage sale. Reading an obscure story from the early 1900s that can't be found any other way. And then there's batteries (or lack thereof). And the scent and feel of books. And. And. And.

*hugs (paper) book* Nope nope nope.

Vaguely planning Ahead

A Bookless Future seems unlikely