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[drumstick diva]

I'd rather be turning pages of a real book, that clicking myself into a stupor reading articles on the internet.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I'd rather be turning pages of a real book, that clicking myself into a stupor reading articles on the internet.

Your on the internet...

 

[hennible]

 

[drumstick diva]

YES that is true but BYC isn't available in book form-

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

YES that is true but BYC isn't available in book form-

Raising Chickens For Dummies



By Rob Ludlow

 

[hennible]

But it's not interactive... I love to read but I enjoy this forum and video games because they're interactive.

 

[Cynthia12]

The good ol days. What I drive now..hasn't got quite the pick up either of these had!

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[drumstick diva]

When I used to walk a lot, about 10 years ago, I stopped at a library in another suburb. I was flabbergasted when I saw almost NO BOOKS on shelves, instead they had computers, and discs and tapes and stuff you could borrow. All I could recall from school was that dog books used to be 636.9 or something like that. I headed to a corner that had some books - couldn't find anything.

At that time I didn't even know how to start a computer- I honestly felt like I was on the wrong planet. We don't have a library in our village, and to get a card in the surrounding suburbs is BIG BUCKS is you are a non-resident. After what I saw, I didn't even want a card.

So I used to buy books - the hardcovers were way too expensive, and the paper backs that used to be my salvation were now priced just a shade less than hard cover. I had to visit the book exchanges but, hardly ever found something I wanted. They had tons of "bodice ripper," stuff and kids books.

I like to hold books, I like the fact that I can go back and read a page over or go and take a peek at the ending - it's not the same when you have to click and click only to read "this page cannot be displayed." etc.

I'm on here because it's making the best of a bad situation. When you folks tell an interesting tale, it won't be out on kindle or whatever those things are called.
So I am here to read them despite the many times I hit the wrong key and the whole page disappears.

I miss the big catalogs retailers used to send out before the holidays - people called them dream books. They were filled with things most of us could never afford to buy but, we could dog ear the pages and go back and look again. We could circle them and hope someone in the family noticed we really wanted that.

Yep I'm a relic of the stone age, no cell phone, no ipad or tablet or kindle or google glass , no laptop. I've got a computer because when my brother gets a new one, I usually get his old one.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I bought the same car around the time I joined this forum back in 2001, $600. Same wheels an same color but was not a TA. I shoehorned a 500ci Big block in to it. The engine stuck threw the hood. Meanest car I have ever owned. Would pass everything on the road except a gas station an a tire store.