From Digital to Physical

By Catherine Ratliff
6/11/2015

The world has changed! We are now doing everything online. Yes, it is very high tech. I have no complaints. Today's brief comment is just a reflection from myself and my feelings about something as simple as reading a book. No, I'm not knocking reading. I am merely recognizing that the way we read now has certainly changed.

I am a true supporter of digital reading, via Kindle, Nook, etc. However, I fear that the physical nature of picking up an actual hard or soft copy might be a faint memory in the not so distant future. Now, do I know this as factual? No! But, I just was taken back when I drove to the local Borders in the neighborhood and it was not there anymore. Okay, perhaps I am just exaggerating the true factors of why it was gone.

It can be a convenient to just open your handheld device and start reading and then closing it back up and sticking it back into your purse for later. You don't have to worry about the darn placeholder falling out of the last page your read into your purse; wondering where you left off. You don't have to worry about the pages getting warped on the edges. Sure, I understand that. But tell me this....don't you just love the smell of the pages when they are flipped over again and again? Don't you just love to smell that literary aroma? Okay, yes...it may be getting a little weird. Sounds like a love affair with books. So today, I opted to touch a physical copy and read it. My choice is In the Bag by Kate Klise. It is a nice traveling and short to the grasp book.

The Synopsis reads: A Tale of Two Suitcases. Three Cities. Four People. And One Big Mix-up.

Hold on to your knickers...here we go!

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