Me: Hello?
My dad: Happy Birthday! I got you a birthday present, but it’s going to be late because it was back-ordered. It’s a book.
Me: Books are good. Yanno, you wouldn’t have that problem with an e-book (thus diving into our perpetual e-book discussion).
My dad: Yeah, you’re never going to convert me to those. I like my paper books.
Me: Give me two years.
My dad: Huh? No. You’ll never change my mind.
Me: Two years. I’m just warning you, yanno, so you see it coming.
My dad: Look, I’m reading these two books right now and you can’t even GET them as e-books.
{we look them up; sure enough he’s right}
Me: Well, six months ago, I couldn’t get my kid’s books on the Nook. When I came out to visit {last month} I loaded up the Nook with all kinds of books for all three of them (ages 7-11).
My dad: Really? Kids books?
Me: Yeah. So, I’ll give your Vietnam-war-analysis author another 6 months or so. He’ll have an e-book by then.
My dad: Well, I don’t really buy books – I just get them from the library. I sign up for them as soon as they come out and check them out when they come available.
Me: You know you can borrow e-books from the library, right?
My dad: Really?
Me: Two years, Dad. I’m just sayin …
My dad: We’ll see …
Ooh, so much to ponder.
It's hard to let go of what you know. I swear – I didn't mean for that to rhyme 🙂
Ha, I'm curious to know if he'll ever convert. I haven't. Yet:)
@Sheri Indeed …
@Lori Ha! You know you can't stop yourself with the rhyming! 🙂
@Lisa Two years … 🙂
Ha ha ha! You'll have to keep us posted. 🙂
@Shannon My dad's the BEST! And he's very good natured about our sparring… 🙂
LOL! Funny guy. But I didn't know you could get e-books at the library either! Thanks for telling me.
I read in PW recently that kid's ebook sales are huge, making up most of the profit. That shocked me… who can afford to buy a kindle/nook/ipad for their kids?
@Jackee I bought my Nook for ME (actually the hubs bought it – I was committed to waiting out the tech wars, but he thought I should be in there fighting *smirks*). But now that I have it, it's easy to loan it to the kids, especially when it keeps them busy reading in the car, plane, vacation … I'd say, between the three of them, I've bought more books for them than for me. 🙂