Re: OT: cell phones

Considering the age of most soldiers, not sure they could get into my taste
in literature.  I could be wrong I suppose.  If Galveston doesn't want them,
I'll pursue that option - thanks!

On 2/25/09, holmesbm@usit.net <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:
>
> Our county library has a program that sends donated books to soldiers
> overseas.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 2/24/2009 6:19:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT: cell phones
> >
> > LOL - it's all about balance.  I'd go nuts w/out my email and the Ya-Ya's
> > love that I have a cell phone.
> > I get news online but still love to read the paper and there's something
> so
> > tactile and satisfying about reading a BOOK.  If I travelled a lot, the
> > Kindle thing would be handy.  But I'm a home body.  And I'm going to
> contact
> > the City of Galveston, I'm sure their library was wiped out last
> September
> > and see if they would like the stacks of books I need to pass on to
> someone
> > else.  I'm betting they'll be glad to have them, mostly history and
> classics
> > - good STUFF.  Oh and if the power goes off, I can still read - LOL.  No
> > batteries or electricity required!
> >
> >
> > On 2/24/09, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > And what will we use to wrap fish and start fires?
> > >
> > > In a message dated 2/24/2009 5:12:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > > inlandjim1@q.com writes:
> > >
> > > It is a whole other thing, isn't it? The change that's surely on its
> > > way--the end of paper. I worry about it, of course. Most of my most
> > > used and most useful books are not likely candidates for e-book status
> > > any time soon. And I think we will all miss newspapers in ways that
> > > are not obviously apparent; television, radio, and internet news would
> > > not be possible without newspapers because it is the Associated Press,
> > > which is jointly owned and fed by, as well as fed to, newspapers that
> > > is the real backbone of the news business--radio, television, print...
> > > and internet. It relies on both the input and output of news to
> > > survive, with newspapers providing most of the input and the parasite
> > > media--radio, tv, internet--paying for much of the output. It's an
> > > enormously complicated web that is driven, mostly, by reporters, as
> > > they say, "on the ground." Radio, tv, internet--they don't have
> > > reporters, they have news readers, news packagers, news sellers,
> > > booster, PR flacks. And most of them, because they are accountable
> > > only, at best, to their advertisers and, at worst, to themselves,
> > > they... but I'm ranting. Sorry. At ease; carry on.
> > >
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