Being a first time blogger, I have to admit that I am a little on the nervous side. Did I ever believe I would be posting my thoughts out there in the blogosphere for all of the world wide web to see? Definitely not.
Aside from feeling nervous, I am also genuinely excited to be a new member of the staff at Lemuria. Having worked at Square Books in Oxford, MS, throughout college, I am an avid lover of books and am so pumped to be back in the world of book selling. For the past week, my first blog post has constantly been on the back of my mind, and I was having trouble deciding what exactly to write about.
On Sunday, I received an email from my dad with a link to the following article from pcmag.com about Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and his pending patent that was just made public. Basically, Jeff Bezos is trying to patent this fancy new airbag thingy for portable devices. No, “fancy new airbag thingy” is not the technology’s official name, but close enough.
Jeff Bezos really is trying to place an airbag into your smart phone, e-reader, laptop, etc. I have to admit, that does sound pretty cool. Who doesn’t wish that you could reverse the damage inflicted upon your poor smart devices after imbibing one too many alcoholic beverages? Or, perhaps, just from one’s own clumsy tendencies?
However, after reading the article, I had a moment of clarity. While my smart phone may benefit from an airbag “thingy,” my beloved books – actual books with spines and pages that you turn by hand – don’t need a silly airbag. You drop a book and you don’t lose all of your contacts or crack a screen, you simply pick it up (maybe check the spine for damage) and resume reading! I found a lot of comfort in this realization and have set aside my qualms over the e-reader vs. book debate for now, knowing that as technology moves forward I can still enjoy holding a physical book in my hand – even if it has fallen on the floor a few times…
by Anna
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