In praise of dead trees

[sabotabby]

You know what's great?

Books that are printed on paper.

You know why?

Because I can open up a 100-year-old paper book and it will still work the way it's supposed to. Unlike, say, my three-year-old Sony Reader, which now does not work because it's incompatible with Adobe Digital Editions and the Sony Reader software is incompatible with the new Mac OS, and Calibre, which is open source, can't manage library e-books. The device can't download from the library directly because it's full of garbage that Sony put on there and slow as shit to boot.

So now I can only read e-books that I steal or buy. Which is not something I'm in the habit of doing.

Thanks, capitalism!

Comments

[sabotabby]

I'm not super-convinced that handwriting is a necessary skill, but it's possibly because I never quite mastered it myself. But also I'm not an elementary educator or parent, so I recognize that I get no say in this.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I certainly never mastered it. I can go it but it requires a lot of thought and effort.

Nevertheless, I can read it just fine, which means that I can read all the letters from my now-dead grandmother and mother from over the years that I've saved.

And my kids can't. :/