Website design By BotEap.comThe end of the book? This is misleading and definitely an open question. It’s a question of paper versus hard drive. Of course, the paper book will survive, but it can be in a library. With book sales in decline and many booksellers (Borders) going bankrupt. We might as well ask if the video killed the radio star. Some people think he did. While others don’t. There were also people who believed that television would not completely eradicate book reading and that did not happen. How people came to believe that television can interpret the books. Books can interpret television. The book still survived.

Website design By BotEap.comWith the digital age, everything is accessible. We live in the age of mass media. People write their own novels (blogs) and create websites every day. Everyone has something to say or an opinion to express. But is there any original thinking out there? Most of the sites I come across are the same as always.

Website design By BotEap.comThe media simply reworks, reframes, or relinks other people’s thoughts, rather than expressing their own. How many TV commercials are original? It’s mostly all reworked crap. What do these marketing people take us for? Do they think we are just robots and won’t notice? Most of the time, I just turned it off half the time. Because it’s the same thing I’ve seen before. Everything on the web is the same, it’s linked to this and just plain old crap. Who has an original thought these days? It is becoming a very rare quality to see or read.

Website design By BotEap.comDo these people do it for money or for pleasure? Some do it for pleasure. But those people are now hard to find. So I’m just the original question. They are novels as we know them, now they are becoming obsolete. They take up too much space, not like a hard drive. But I still love the touch or the essence of a novel. it is palpable. We can all look for answers on the Internet. The dictionary is no longer there. Now we have Wikipedia. Everything is taking a different shape, and it’s moving fast. Sometimes I find it hard to keep up.

Website design By BotEap.comWho knows if he keeps some of his books, he might show them to his grandkids and show them what a book was or used to be.

Website design By BotEap.comNothing is stable and unshakable, not even marriage. So let’s enjoy it and take a walk.