It all began when Amazon.com announced its Kindle.
This is an electronic device that one can use to download newspapers, magazines, books and blogs, and read them like crazy. My father, 88, called it a reading machine.
He wanted one so bad, but my brothers and I encouraged him to reconsider this purchase based on the following:
1. He doesn’t read books
2. He is on a fixed income
3. My mother, a lifelong reader, now has low vision and can’t read
4. He already reads the New York Times online everyday for free
5. One has to pay for the device (about $400) and also the reading material...
