O is for Old

Or even “out,”, as in “out with the old, in with the new!” Just this morning, I finished adding up all my receipts for last year for filing my taxes. Something interesting stood out. There were two months during the year when I didn’t buy a single print book. And by the end of the year, my digital purchases were 4.5 times higher than print. I’m sad to say I’ve only read five books this year, and most of those in January. By mid-February, I was so busy writing, I had to keep other stories out of my head. But of those five books, only one was print – and I read it in that format because I couldn’t get it any other way. I’ve even been cleaning off my bookshelves and replacing unread print books with digital, saving only keepers or books not available for my Kindle. These days, I read on either my Kindle Keyboard, my Kindle Fire, or the Kindle app on my iPod Touch or my Blackberry. I’d say I’ve been converted.