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One Response to "Book News for Tuesday, April 7, 2009"

DeniseB April 8, 2009 at 12:28 AM

I remember the old days when a Kindle was called a "tape recorder." Kids, write this down, there will be a test. Sometimes, on special days, we "watched" the Kindle on the over-head projector...it was swell cuz you could sleep right through it!! I am gonna go out on a limb here, Brockman, and say that never (and I do mean NEVER) will I own a Kindle, iPhone/book, or ANYTHING that has monkies flying out of one of it's orifices. The physical newspaper may go to the wayside and there may be folks out there that really like to read their "Kindle formerly known as Book" but there will ALWAYS be goofy people like me who want to buy a book just to feel it, smell it, and look at it on a shelf - whether it gets read now or in ten years. We shall overcome...it's like this dang "internet" fad. Relax. Twitter something. In private, of course. Now, if you wanna be sad, the whole John Updike story is making me very sad. How could I love a collection from a writer of Mr Updike's magnitude if I had only seen the damn thing on a little screen? Read his dying poems on some stupid phone so small I have to go up a strength on my reading glasses? No, I want all of my Updike's on a shelf in my room where I can see them. Call me a romantic, a change-blocking agent, or just a pack-rat but I betcha there are others just like me out there! (well, thank God, not JUST like me)

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