tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post1605563213716996132..comments2024-01-24T18:18:13.919+09:00Comments on PureLandMountain.com: Robert Bradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299574758004022747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-15348638000629062062012-08-19T13:40:37.341+09:002012-08-19T13:40:37.341+09:00These Notbooks are so (pause for the kindest descr...These Notbooks are so (pause for the kindest descriptive word possible)so utilitarian. There is no visual beauty. I have hundreds of books that line my bookshelves that fill an entire wall and each with its own unique aesthetic presence. I can slowly run my fingers along a row of books and feel the difference in texture from one book to the next until I stop at just the right book for my mood and intellectual needs to pull from the shelf. And the smell of ink on paper, aged or new, when opened triggers deep brain memories of all the adventure, intrigue, humor, wisdom, people and worlds met in books past. Sometimes I see our future and I am not impressed. Notbooks fit this unimpressive category. I will, one day, I am certain, grudgingly own a Notbook, but secretly and not so secretly have little appreciation for it. Notbooks are the invisible fork in the road where I become officially old as technology races onward. Dalenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-46369834049342894222012-08-13T20:51:40.217+09:002012-08-13T20:51:40.217+09:00Love the word "notbook" which I think yo...Love the word "notbook" which I think you use intentionally. Have not come to love the idea enough to purchase one especially as my bookshelves are laden with real books I have yet to read. With eye problems, however, the light of the notbook makes it tempting. I could see without having to sit myself under my brightest lamps. But not yet, not yet.June Calenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265808476144632255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434291.post-68823073720406815662012-08-13T17:41:14.646+09:002012-08-13T17:41:14.646+09:00I put down what was for me a proportionately large...I put down what was for me a proportionately large chunk of change for my Kindle, and I don't leave it lying around for exactly that reason -- the fact that it would be very difficult to come up with the money to replace it. I'm living on a fixed income and a tight budget. Money makes my choices, not aethetics. When I buy a book, money always figures into it. I buy the (used) dead tree editions when they are cheaper than the Kindle version. I've embraced the technology. The thought of being able to carry 3500 books around in my bag is a big sell with me -- and with the music apps I have -- internet radio stations, music services -- it is a truly prized bit of tech.WOLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com