Tuesday 16 February 2010

Eep, I'm making a post

Yes, Floam, you are making a post.
So get on with it.
(What's this font? I like this font. It doesn't tell me. What are you, O elusive font of blogspot?)
Hmm. Well in any case, you certainly are not a bad font.

Well, I'm writing this, still in my jammies, with my laptop on my tummy, and a kitty on my toes. This is probably (Ooh, Autosave) quite a change to how things were written some hundreds of years ago (probably, Floam?) Okay, definitely.

From cavescratching, to heiroglyphs, to quill and paper, pen and paper, typewriters, computers, and now, I could even be writing this from my iPod. Writing has transgressed to digital. This is accepted.

But what do people think about digitalised reading?

It's thought that physical paper books could become obselete due to things such as the Kindle, and whatever the other one is called (you've really researched this well, Floam). Though I don't own a Kindle (capitalised? Kindle or kindle?), I am guilty of having a digital subscription to a beading magazine I regularly read. The stack of magazines under my bookcase is going to not get any bigger, as all my new issues are strictly on the internet.

Is this a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Is it just change?

If paper books become obselete, will people unable to afford items such as the Kindle go without reading material? And then if literature is only available to those who can afford it, will a good knowledge of books and reading just become something for the elite?

What say you?