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Printed Things I Miss

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For the last several years, there are so many printed items that have disappeared and many more will be disappearing in the future. Here are a few items I miss.


1) Printed Ticket Stubs
We were on the way to a concert with our son and all of the sudden we realized we had forgotten the electronic tickets we printed out at home. My husband remembered that he had the electronic tickets in our drop box. When we got there, they scanned the tickets off of his phone. I miss those days when you put on a coat, you haven't worn in and while, and reach your hand in your pocket, and find a stub to a show you had gone to over a year ago. Last year I purchased a book for my son to save his ticket stubs. Unfortunately, he has to use pieces from our electronic print outs. This made me very nostalgic for the days when we had a ticket stub as a souvenir from the show.

2) Vinyl Albums Covers
I have saved all of my old vinyl albums and toted them across the country three times when I moved. The artwork on the cover represented the band and the music. If you were lucky, you got a poster and separate liner notes. My alphabetized album collection was, and still is, one of my prized possessions. Now we download our music, put it on the cloud, share it with others, load it on our phone, and swap songs on-line with friends. There is nothing tangible or iconic about an album or a song. I guess I'm showing my age but I really miss albums.

3) Books
I'm repeating myself with this blog because I have talked about electronic books before. I have tried to embrace this new technology. In theory, it sounds great to take this one gadget with you that holds all of your books, magazines, newspapers etc. I have downloaded a few books on to my iPad---cookbooks, fiction books, and the newspaper. I hardly ever read them and I have never used the cookbooks. Unless I have a book sitting on my nightstand or on a shelf, I forget I have it. There is something about the act of thumbing through the newspaper as well as fanning through a book (and peaking at the ending) that can't be replaced by electronics. I will continue to try but in the meantime, I have a ton of books sitting by my bed that need to be read.

Posted by: Patty Jensen

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