small enough to put in your pocket
available even when the electricity fails
doesn’t need batteries
don’t have to wait for it to boot-up
play at any level you like …
go backward or forward in time
learn from the ancients as well as the moderns
meet people you’d never get to know
feel emotions you’d never experience …
teach your kids …
READ A BOOK
Sue Millard - Jackdaw E Books. Horses, history and humour (not necessarily in that order) and general witterings; some vaguely literary, mostly rural. I live in Cumbria in Northern England.
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This is so true. Plus: books smell great. I just love opening new ones and breathing deeply -- weird, but true.
Almost six years ago, we had a huge power cut here: everything electric was down for a good 24 hours, and people were frantic -- and utterly lost. Poor things: no T.V!
I popped corn (we had a gas-powered Aga back then), played some wonderfully cheesy old records on our old Victrola (we really do have one -- to this day my kids can sing parts of The Sheik of Araby), and we all read books by candlelight and talked. Frankly, I was almost sorry when the electricity came back on. Almost.
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