Amazon Blogs

I realized today that I will never be on an Amazon Blog!
They will never ask me to be a blog featured on their Kindle, the darling of their universe and the world.
Amazon will never ask consumers to fork out $1.99 a month to read this blog.

(And to those nitwits who do so they can hold their Kindle you deserve to part with your money)

It was announced today that holiday sales of books were way down. BUT holiday sales of the likes of Kindle and Nook and other nazi kizmo's that claim to be important and life changing book reading technology gadgets were through the roof!

AAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They showed a picture of a man sitting in his high back chair by the roaring fire as he held his friggin' Kindle. He looked ridiculous. And like the weak Oprah he claimed it was so easy to hold up. Poor pasty fella should try getting some sun and using a dumb bell (other than himself), to lift so he has some upper body strength to hold a damn book.
"Look it's so easy I don't need to lift my arm to turn the page"

I love technology. I don't need as much of it as most but I like it. I worked in the technology field for 23 + years. So I am not afraid of it like my parents.
But this Kindle thing gets my panties in a twist.
It's right up there with poor customer service for me in the irksome category.

I do not and probably will not ever ever understand why this is better than a book.
So I'm guessing no more libraries will eventually be the case if we don't need books?
Will we be able to download something from Dewy Decimal somehow then?

I love the smell of books and holding them. It's pure pleasure for me.
So call me old fashion but I will be holding on to my books.
I have hundreds on book shelves all over my home.

I have been buying books since I was old enough to be able to buy them with my own money.
I got books as gifts as a kid and I remember my whole library of Nancy Drews that my mom bought for me. A new one would arrive to what seemed like every month. I couldn't wait. I even have my Dr. Seuss books.

So maybe in the end I will win.
These books could be worth some money some day other than just my love of them.
Maybe they will be considered antiques and I will open a little store front and sell these foreign objects that people once read called books. With yellowing pages and leather bound.
People will want to buy them like they do antiques today.
To show off, to have history. To put on a shelf to display.

I know I sound like the person who thought radio was everything and that Television was a horrible form of entertainment. I get that and I see it. But I don't much care.

That plastic piece of crap is making Amazon/ Jeff Bezos rich.
And good for him because he needs more money.

But I wonder if like my computer it could possibly die a slow technological death.
Geeks on call can't fix it and and there is no help in upgrading it now and poof there goes your books. Now you need to buy another and start all over again.
Like when my hard drive crashed. Anyone know if that can happen to these things?

Some things are just better the originial way. Like your boobs, your face & your waistline.

Just a few things I think I would miss.....
I would miss my crazy ass bookmarks. A movie stub, my metro card, my grocery list.
Athough my battery will never die while reading my book.
I would miss leaving my book on my beach blanket so I can dive into the water to cool off.
I would miss the experience of the heft of books like I Know This Much is True and the little ones like Bridges of Madison County,
I would miss coffee table books of wonderous places to discover and beauty.
I would miss cover artwork that sometimes can draw you into the book.
I would miss the smell of the book.
I would miss so many things.

Am I the only one?