Kindles(s)

I am officially an ungrateful bastard. (hip hip hooray!)

I was in Best Buy the other day looking at Kindles. I'm a recovering tech junkie and every now and then I relapse and find myself buying stuff I don't need. I read a lot and always see "Buy the kindle e-book for X% cheaper, so I figured "why not." So anyway, I'm in there looking at them and I'm trying to figure out how to turn the thing on. I saw this grayish looking screen and assumed it was the fake plastic screen overlays that they put on electronic devices to simulate the screen. I didn't know that's how the original Kindle screens actually look (It's called e-ink by the way).

So there I was trying to peel off what I thought was a fake screen when I accidentally hit the button on the side and the screen changed. "Oh, that's just how it looks," I thought to myself. It wasn't a deal breaker. After all it's just for reading books, right? You know what was the deal breaker and the thing that made me realize just how ungrateful of a bastard I am? I kept tapping the screen trying to advance to the next page and nothing happened. I thought it was defective so I went to the next display model. I did this for two minutes before it occurred to me…This thing isn't a touch screen. What is this the 1900s?

That's when I realized it. I've forgotten where I came from. I'm snooty. For $80 I can carry around all the free library e-books I rent and all the e-books I care to buy and the thing weighs less than a pound. The battery lasts about a month on just one charge and it's a rechargeable battery. When I was nine I was ecstatic to just get 25 minutes out of the six AA batteries my Game Gear took and yet here I am living in the future where I can carry an entire library around in the palm of my hand and I'm too lazy to push a button.

I disgust me. Hopefully my touch screen iPad has a self-help app. :-)