Unreliable

      As we enter further into the technological age of man, I have come to realize how unreliable electronic devices are. I was sorely disappointed at the beginning of the week due to such failures in technology.
      As some of you may know, I began college classes on the 19th (of August) and I thought that I would scope out the library after my classes were done; they end at 12:50 pm on Mondays. I walked in and was taken away by the devices the library had in stock called "Playaways". The library had it so that there was an individual book loaded to each singular device and shortly after looking through the shelf I found Life of Pi by Yann Martel. For anyone who does know, Life of Pi recently became a motion picture film, that I did not see because I have not read the book; but that is a story for another time in the future.
     After taking the box containing the Playaway off the shelf, I checked it out and that evening I took it home to listen to it. I followed the specific directions to make it work and it would not function no matter how hard I tried to make it work. I was slightly distraught. So, I took it in between my German and Early Western Civilization classes the next day (Tuesday) and the library staff could not precede to make it function either. It was pronounced dead around 10:15 am.
    I was sad for a little while but as I went further along in my classes, I realized that I would not have had time to listen to it anyway. Right now, I cannot read A Game of Thrones either because I have to read The Trojan War by Strauss for my Early Western Civ class, which is perfectly alright because I love reading up on history.
     The point of this post is that technology is mostly unreliable and that I am probably better off reading a book made out of actual pieces of paper, that I can hold in my hands (and possibly sniff on occasion, because who does not like the smell of books?).