I was heading off to the bedroom to read a few pages of the latest I’m book reading while I performed a XenServer Storage motion on a couple of my virtual Linux servers after upgrading my NAS memory and storage capacity the last few nights and I could not find the book I was reading. I looked in my favorite eBook readers on my Motorola Atrix checking Moon Reader, Cool Reader, Aldiko and Kindle but none of the books on my continued reading were the fantasy book I had just started by reading a few pages of earlier this week.
Finally I clicked on an ad for an audible reader download while closing one of the eBook readers and looked over to my end table when I realized where my book was. I had been reading an actual physical book that you turn pages on made of paper! I had not read a paperback book in so long I failed to realize that what I was looking for was a book made out of actual tree materials! I found my book and I will be turning actual pages by hand, will not be able to automatically go to where I left off unless I leave a paper book mark, I will not be able to automatically look up the definition of words etc..
I feel this is like going back to nature or a trip to the past reading an actual novel not in electronic format. Looking over at my overstuffed bookshelf I am realizing that only a few years ago I was wondering where I was going to stuff anymore books I bought when I made bi-weekly trips to a used book barn to buy a handful of books at a time. Such nostalgia in a few years time of changed habits and expectations.
