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8:23am January 3, 2012

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goldenheartedrose:

singingandreading:

Today, I went to Barnes & Noble to buy the final two books of the A Song of Fire and Ice series. As I was in the checkout line, there was a boy behind me. He couldn’t have been older than eight, and he had an e-reader.

[snip animated GIF: “I weep…

As noted before, I was given my Kindle at a time when I was consistently too weak to turn pages. Now all I have to do is twitch my thumb. Even now when stronger, my arms can rapidly weaken when using a regular book.

But this isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone say that assistive technology makes them sick. (That would be the time someone approached me in a restaurant and told me not to use my keyboard while she was eating. You know… the keyboard that’s my only means of using words at all.) I still don’t see the logic behind it, though.

Not the first time I’ve heard someone (someone else on this thread) say that assistive technology is a tool of the devil either. That would be when my friend, who also types to communicate, attended a church service in a new town. He got really nervous because the preacher was saying that the Antichrist would use such technology to communicate. Can’t figure the logic of that either.