I have become increasingly addicted to my kindle. This is a very guilty pleasure for me. After all, I have a lot of access to free books. I visit the library almost every day. I started out just purchasing book club books on my kindle, leaving the library copies for the other members. Then I started buying kindle books to travel, and checking kindle books out from the library (we have a small collection). It has progressed to the point, now, where I'll buy a kindle book because I don't want to drive to the library. You know, the library I visit almost every day. I recently checked a book out, then bought a kindle copy when I found myself facing a long bus ride without it. After all, when I check a book out, I only have one copy of it, not one on my phone, one on the ipod I leave in the nursery, one on the kindle...you get the idea.
I can only imagine how my customers who do not work at the library or have a vested interest in increasing circulation behave. It's hard to deny that anything less than instant gratification is hard to deal with these days. I imagine telling my son about video rentals. Can you believe that we used to drive to the video rental place, pay $4 to rent a video for two days, then an additional $4 when we failed to return it on time? Unfathomable. When we heard a song we liked on the radio (radio? he asks) we would drive to the music store and purchase an entire CD so that we could have it.
I wonder what we used to do when we found ourselves stuck with a few minutes of time, say, waiting in line at the store. As I pull up a book on my iphone, I can't imagine. I'll be sure to buy more kindle books for the library next year.
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