A New Look For Books!

Torn pages, lost covers, no biding and using bookmarks as place holders. All these things are so 1999, it’s the 2000’s and the new millennium and with that comes new technology whether it’s with television, newspapers, radio or film things are changing every day.

As my fellow P.O.P.(Power Of Print) Stars and I presented the wonderful world of books, so much has gone down in the world of print and books are catching up with the times and becoming more exciting than just 340 pages bound together telling a story of a boy who has lost his dog and must travel back in time to change his past to fix the present. Now maybe that example was a little farfetched, but any story someone can write with proper mechanics and grammar have the potential of having a book published and being on the New York Times Best seller list. So I digressed a little bit away from the topic at hand, but as I’ve said before when most people read about books whether it’s a book report or a research paper on the history of them, society or our class rather lose focus quickly.

Though I am aware that people that really read and appreciate books are the type of people that will never let go of a real book just because there is something about holding it, and turning pages and all that and not just reading it off a screen, the future of books is inside the Sony E-Reader is the next big thing in the world of books. As the video shows, the ereader allows nontraditional readers to have a on the go electronic folder of essentially 350 ebooks. The model shown in the video features the book light for dim light reading and also a stylus pen which allows users to search for books out of their database. To say the ereader will make more people read would be a false theory, because though the technology is update and allows users to page through a digital version of books that we page through every day at libraries these ereaders take a good chunk out of your pocket. They’re saying this model in the video is about 400 dollars, unless you have a lot of money and 400 is pocket change for you, not many people are going to add this to their bookshelf. Which brings up an interesting thought is there going to be ereader bookshelves probably not seeing as the ereader holds thousand s upon thousand pages, but I had to mention it. I to this point read books very rarely, unless it’s related to pro wrestlers or tips of making it big in Hollywood and there is many classic novels I’d read again and again, but books are not my favorite past time, but until they adapt them with ereader I don’t plan on making a purchasing on one, but that doesn’t mean if someone from class gets one I won’t want to check it out. Thanks for reading everyone, can’t wait to read the rest of my P.O.P. Star’s blogs and everyone else’s of course.