Friday, June 26, 2009

Post 2- Thing #2- Web 2.0

I have conflicting views about the Web. On one hand I see all the wonderful communication that is now provided to so many people around the world. Anything I need or want to know is just a mouse-click away! Wow! On the other hand it makes me sad and nostalgic to think about all the touch-and-feel communication with books we are sacrificing. The other day we were cleaning up around the house and found an old set of encyclopedias. Now the dilemma - what do we do with them? In my opinion it is almost sinful to throw out books, especially those wonderful encyclopedias that I would pour over at night. Just the feel and smell of the paper makes me weepy! Don't get me wrong - I'm not against technology but I think we must be able to show and teach children to respect, honor and crave the feeling of a book in their hand. It's something magical a computer just can't do!
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  1. marywJune 30, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    I thought the same thing - until I got my Kindle e-book reader. I can get just as lost in a story that I'm reading on my Kindle as I can with a real book. That tells me that it's not the medium that's magical - it's the words and the stories themselves. Books aren't going away, but paper might be!

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  2. greengrassJuly 1, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    I don't have a Kindle but I guess I need to try it! Sounds good! Thanks for sharing the info.

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  3. Patty TanamachiJuly 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    I love my kindle! And I really love technology! BUT I still have the encyclopedias I purchased with my tax refund one year when my children were small!! I am sentimentally attached to them. I'm a grandma now, so I'm not sure I'll ever completely convert my way of thinking about books and newspapers. But who knows? My newspaper is getting so small it looks like a flyer some days.

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  4. summertimeJuly 2, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    I agree that technology really shouldn't take the place of books. The comment about encyclopedias got me to thinking. When I was a kid, my parents bought the World Book Encyclopedia and Childcraft set from my first grade teacher (her 2nd job). I remember reading those childcraft volumes in bed over and over. That was the first time I was ever interested in reading. The smell of a new book is still great and technology can't duplicate that or the fun of a bookstore.

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