It was over a dozen years ago. And I asked the question if ebooks online would take the place of traditional books. Back then, I said…

~ I don’t think so. Not very soon anyway. Why? A little thing called electricity. If you use an eReader or tablet or mobile or laptop to read ebooks for kids or any other ebooks, you need electricity to read ’em. And if there was an extended outage (hurricane damage for instance), you’d be without your reading material. So, the good ol’ paperback or hardbound book would look pretty awesome right about then. ~

But there are still ebooks online AND physical ones, too.

And that’s because of people like me.

And you.

As for me, I’m extremely fond (putting it mildly) of the digital medium. Yeah, at any given moment I’m carrying around a bunch of books. Some of them are links to ebooks online. And a lot more are stored on my iPhone.

I actually enjoy reading ebooks on my iPhone. Super handy. It’s there when I’m ready. I don’t have to remember an extra thing to carry around. And I don’t lose my place in the text. And I can send myself (or others in social media circles or email) notes, clips, and more.

Plus, I have easy and almost instantaneous access to the Bible. Not just one version. But many versions. Complete with reference materials.

And I can even listen to the audio.

So, yeah, all that convenient access to ebooks online, and on my phone, means I have to remember to keep it charged in case of electricity outages. My portable generator helps, too. But I’d have to keep it charged even if I was just gonna use it to make phone calls (who does that anymore?)

Maybe you prefer the good ol’-fashioned physical book. And that’s OK. You still have enough freedom (barely) to live in the dark ages (ironically, you can’t read a physical book in the dark either). And vivé la difference. That’s Italian for “Hey, that’s NOT Italian!”

Just thought I’d meander through some controversy with you. Feel free to return to whatever you were doing before I interrupted your flow. But before you go…

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