Do e-books suck or am I just getting old?

I know it's suppose to make sense. I don’t still use a phone that is tethered to a wall. I retired my 8 track players years ago, and I cannot imagine that I used to actually get up off the couch to change the channel!

I mean, what the hell? - technology has changed my life for the better in so many ways. When I first put up this website I made promises of instant downloadable effects and e-books. The truth, is I lied. It was not my intent to lie or to deceive people. I just thought, hell it’s so much easier to make and email e-books than to actually sell a physical object.

Well, after reading all the work and thought that has gone into the first chapter of what will one day be an entire book. I snapped out of my greedy easy-way-out mentality and I realized that if it is worth reading, then it is worth printing.

If I do not believe that it has enough value to be printed why the hell should you think it has enough value to be read. I also realized that in the last year I have bought around 20 e-books and have never read any of them more than once. Compare that to the amount of times I have read all the books on my bookshelf. Some of the books aren’t even that good but on a rainy day I pick one up and read it again trying to understand what the author was really trying to tell me.

I now understand that there is something valuable about holding a book, and reading it, and rereading it.
Well I have to be getting on now. It is getting late, and my lamp is running low on oil.

Just my thoughts,

Brent Braun