Same here. I will buy books at thrift stores and yard sales. Tried th avatar's reader and didn't like it. I guess I'm old-fashioned - my house is full of books, and I spend a lot of time with a real book in my hand.

 

Lots of homes, churches, city buildings etc. have mini-libraries in their yard where you can take a book and leave a book.

Hardcopy paper MAPS...I love when my sexy british female tells me where to turn, when, and what "attractions" are in the immediate area if I need to know the closest restaurant, gas station, etc...

 

I have always loved maps.

 

If I passed through any state I would pick up their map at a rest area.

 

I kept a big Rand McNally atlas in every car.

 

I would go to city hall and pick up a city map of every city I visited. If they didn't have one I would buy one.

 

Smart phones and GPS are fantastic and efficient. Maps were fun.

High school was close to 500 miles from here. I never went to a reunion; haven't seen a single classmate since 1978. I do have infrequent contact with a couple of them via social media.

 

I'm sitting here in my parents house, 600 miles away getting ready to go out with old friends. I drove through Glen Burnie on the way here ;-)

Home computers will be obselete in 5 years. No need. Business will still use b/c they'll need the computing resources for SOME applications. But my phone could shoot a signal to my TV today and eliminate my need for home internet, and a computer.

 

I guess technically my phone is a computer, but you get my point.

 

The home computer changed the world in many ways more than any other technological invention of all time and it will, in the grand scheme of things, have a very short history.

I have always loved maps.

 

If I passed through any state I would pick up their map at a rest area.

 

I kept a big Rand McNally atlas in every car.

 

I would go to city hall and pick up a city map of every city I visited. If they didn't have one I would buy one.

 

Smart phones and GPS are fantastic and efficient. Maps were fun.

 

Same here. When I'm visiting an area I don't know much about or have never been there, one of my first purchases is a local map of the area so that I know where I'm going. I don't trust those GPS systems one bit.

 

And there's no better toilet literature than those Rand McNally US road maps.