becoming a part of the flock.
We all struggle sometimes with the thought of becoming one of the masses. Whether it is because you like your “individuality”, or whether you just truly like to stand out, you just like being your own person.
That’s me in a nutshell, but today I changed my ways.
"Kinny".
I received an Amazon Kindle from my boyfriend of two years as a generous gift this evening. Much to my surprise, I fell completely in love with it almost too instantly. For anyone that knows me well enough, this is a shocking revelation to discover that perhaps I like something that is anti-novelist. If that is even the right way to put it.
In a previous post I mentioned my new-found appreciated for e-Readers, and here I find myself yet again jabbering on about how I may have taken this technological advancement for granted.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good book. And by book, I mean a few hundred pages bound together in a hard form, not some crappy serif font that is clogging up my MacBook’s screen.
I just can’t deal with reading off my computer, hence my previous fear that technology would eventually bring the novelty of holding an actual book in my hand, to extinction.
The Amazon Kindle is a fantastically wicked device. Not only is it digital (and somewhat against the traditional novel) it is also sleekly addictive and interactive. I have had it for 5 hours now, and my eyes are struggling to stray away from it.
So here’s to my point. You can love something for as long as you want, but in the future, you are going to have to become one of the flock. Maybe you won’t like how that flock flies, and maybe it won’t make you a lone wander who is sentimental and traditional (yet again, like myself). But it will make you more in contact with today’s age, and I have my new Kindle (who I already embarrassingly nickname “Kinny”) to thank for keeping me aware of technology, but still being able to appreciate the traditional pleasure of sentimentalism.
If you want to get read, this is how you shloud write.
Cassie, I have recently fallen for an iPad of all things. I am no longer a paper monogamist either… The way I see it, is now I have my cake and I’ll eat it to. That’s what cake is for isn’t it?
I love cake! And I do definitely love my Kindle.
As a book lover I know this resistance and I too have been struggling. In my case that struggle is made more acute because I have 6 novels out as eBooks and 6 more waiting. I want people like you to buy e readers but I haven’t got one myself yet. Soon, soon, I’m waiting for the new colour tablet to hit Europe and get it’s bugged ironed out. Well that’s a plausible excuse isn’t it?
I’ll be back to read some more sound words. Thanks for an entertaining blog.
ATB, davidrory.
It is very impressive that you are a successful author, it is my everlasting dream that one day I will have books that are published. I worry that perhaps when this day comes, I’ll have to just stare at them on a screen; that will be the method of publishing in the future. I’d like to see one of my own books bound in hardcopy, in my hands. It is concerning. But I do love my Kindle. Ironic.
Cassie, a piece of flint, sharpened against another rock, was once the peak of human technology, without the use of simple tools, life as we know it would not exist. Embracing new technology in whatever form it comes in, has gotten us to where we are today. Sometimes letting go of the “old ways” is hard, but think of the excitement of what is to come in the future.
Never heard something so true. Or read should I say.