June 12 – chill through the heart

chill through the heart
apocryphal predictions
end of printed word?

I want a world with books.

Lots and lots of books.

And lots of bookstores and lots of libraries.

But it is practical?

They say the iPhone has the computer power to match the old CRAY5 Mega Computers of the 1980’s.

On my computers and devices, I have 1,000s of titles and with internet access, I have access to million’s more – on a level that was beyond even imagination until this century.

I have worked in bookstore, libraries and publishers.

I have been around books all my life.

There is a bookstore in Savannah where I hope to get a job when I retire.

I still find unexplainable personal pleasure in reading a well bound hard cover book.

I still find unexplainable personal pleasure in being in a library or bookstore.

I still find unexplainable personal pleasure in seeing large personal libraries.

But we have moved often and relocating a personal library of lots and lots of books changed my personal point of view.

Printed books have moved from a necessity to a luxury.

And so many things get printed for some reason.

Just look at cook books.

I have a rule that if a cookbook had 1, just 1 good recipe that I would use, that was a good cookbook.

And good cookbooks are hard to find.