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12 Days / 11 Nights
From north to south - step into Ireland's colourful past, starting with the legendary Giant's Causeway and Belfast's Titanic history. Rugged peninsulas, village gems and sweeping views of the Wicklow Mountains create a dramatic setting for your Emerald Isle adventure.
Day 1 - Dublin - Belfast
From Dublin, we venture to the prehistoric site of Newgrange and visit the Battle of Boyne for an exciting preview of what to expect over the days to come. Tonight, we arrive in Belfast and enjoy a delicious meal together. (D)
Accommodation: Malone Lodge Hotel
Day 2 - Belfast - Londonderry
You don't have to delve deep into Northern Ireland's past to see the influences on contemporary culture. This morning begins with an escorted Black Cab tour of Belfast's unique street art - its political murals, followed by a visit to the Titanic Museum where we discover the personal stories that surround this fateful ship. We continue to Ballyscullion Park, a historic private country house, where lunch will be waiting for us. Later, we explore Ireland's natural geological wonder - the Giant's Causeway - before arriving in Londonderry. (B,L)
Accommodation: Beech Hill Country House
Day 3 - Londonderry - North Irish Coast - Londonderry
Today, stroll along the old city walls of Londonderry and then continue the journey to the Isle of Doagh where we'll learn of the local population's experience of the devastating Irish Famine. (B)
Accommodation: Beech Hill Country House
Day 4 - Londonderry - Ballyfarnon
More fascinating history is on the cards today at the Ulster-American Folk Park, where we learn why two million people sailed from Ulster to embark on a fresh life in the New World and make time for a pottery demonstration. The day ends in Ballyfarnon where we regroup for an evening meal together. (B,D)
Accommodation: Kilronan Castle
Day 5 - Ballyfarnon - Connemara - Galway
The morning sees us in Westport before visiting the award-winning Connemara Heritage Centre to gain a unique insight into Ireland's past. As the day draws to a close, we'll complete our journey with a walking tour through the harbour city of Galway. (B)
Accommodation: Park House Hotel
Day 6 - Galway
Today is yours to enjoy as you wish in buzzing, bohemian Galway. (B)
Accommodation: Park House Hotel
Day 7 - Galway - The Burren - Dingle
We meet with the picturesque area of Caherconnell and witness local sheepdog trials in action. We continue across the Burren and round off the day with a visit to the magnificent Cliffs of Moher, rising high above the Atlantic. (B,D)
Accommodation: Dingle Skellig Hotel
Day 8 - Dingle Peninsula
We'll begin in south-west Ireland's jewel in the crown - the Dingle Peninsula before stopping off at the Blasket Islands Centre. The afternoon gives us plenty of free time to delve deeper and explore DIngle. (B)
Accommodation: Dingle Skellig Hotel
Day 9 - Dingle - Kenmare - Blarney
Peaks and lakes are on the cards today. Time to take in the views across the stunning Killarney Lakes and onwards to Kenmare before the adventure continues with a visit to the iconic Blarney Castle. Legend has it, if you kiss the Blarney Stone you will be blessed with the gift of eloquence. Tonight, make the most of your new found eloquence over dinner at the hotel. (B,D)
Accommodation: Blarney Castle Hotel
Day 10 - Blarney - Kinsale - Blarney
The port and fishing town of Kinsale is where we'll start our walking tour through history and a stop at Charles Fort before returning to Blarney for the evening. (B)
Accommodation: Blarney Castle Hotel
Day 11 - Blarney - Tipperary - Kilkenny
As we approach the final few chapters of our tour we find ourselves at rural Tipperary and Swiss Cottage to then carry on through to Kilkenny, Ireland's 'most perfect' medieval city. (B,D)
Accommodation: Kilkenny River Court
Day 12 - Kilkenny - Avoca - Dublin
Our last day sees us reach the 'fair city' of Dublin with a stop via Avoca and Huntingdon Castle where our tour ends. (B)


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UN Chief Calls for Pressure on Saudis to End 'Stupid' Yemen War
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the Yemen war is causing terrible suffering to the Yemeni people and called for a renewed push to end the "stupid war", there.
"I believe this is a stupid war. I think this war is against the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates… (and) of the people of Yemen," he said on CNN.
"What we need is a political solution."
Guterres said he hoped a Saudi blockade of Yemen's ports, would be lifted.
"This war is causing, in my opinion, terrible suffering to the Yemeni people," while also harming Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, he added.
"It's in the interests of everybody to stop this war."
Yemeni people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia for nearly three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Over 14,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.


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For Barbara Gray, a former sell-side analyst, it's been a six-year journey of discovery.
In 2010 she left the corporate world and formed Brady Capital with no strategic plan but "driven by a strong intellectual curiosity and a passion for reading business strategy books." Out of that would emerge an investment firm with ideas for the next generation of investors.
That message has been captured in Ubernomics: How to Create Economic Abundance and Rise Above the Competition. The 188-page book is being released in two weeks on Amazon.
"My thesis is that over the next decade, most companies will either be on a marketplace or build their own marketplace. It's capital efficient and part of the trend towards access versus ownership," the Vancouver-based Gray said.
To get to that thesis, Gray met with a slew of people with different ideologies – those who embraced socially responsible investing, conscious capitalism, impact investing, and the sharing economy.
From those discussions grew the idea of "value drivers" – companies known for their advocacy, connection and collaboration characteristics. The list included Lululemon, Chipotle, Whole Foods and Starbucks initially, although Gray added Linkedin (now owned by Microsoft) and Zillow (an online real estate database company) later. All have generated strong gains.
But Gray sensed that the shift in the economy went beyond value drivers. She was looking for factors that explained the rise of abundance economics, a concept that seems to turn the normal definition of economics – the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends – on its head.
One factor is the democratization of content and the rise of social media, which Gray said has "democratized influence."
Another factor is the democratization of physical and human capital, due in part to social changes, including the growing desire for alignment of interests between individuals and those who they deal with; technological changes, including user generated reviews and apps; and economic changes, including the desire by individuals to earn a living in different ways.
"That democratization," Gray argues, "will lead to obsolesce over a wide range of sectors this decade."
And she has taken her own advice: In late 2014, she shorted Medallion Financial, which owns taxi licences in New York and Chicago. (The shares are down by more than 60 per cent.) Through Toronto-based Pennock Idea Hub, Gray has also taken her investment thesis to meetings with institutional investors trying to get them to be aware of the Ubernomic fault lines in their portfolios.
For Gray, the research leads to the so-called long tail – or the "rise of the niche" and the turning away from the one-size-fits-all-model.
Gray argues the unbundling of physical and human capital "enables companies to access a long tail of latent or underutilized assets, goods, and services." That unbundling also means that inventory growth is "not limited by traditional time and capital constraints."
That development helps explain the rise of Airbnb and Uber. The former is valued at around US$30 billion and can add capacity very easily – in contrast to international hotels, which either have to buy it or build it. "A traditional hotel chain operates in the old world of scarcity. Airbnb operates in the new world of abundance," she said.
As for the winners and losers, that's the next area of Gray's research.
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Nandhini sat in her room with the lights out. She didn't want anyone to know she was still awake. She was thinking about Etienne. She was so in love with him. The wonderful sweet person she was used to dating. But then, the other side she saw that evening left her a little perplexed. Could she live with someone insecure and jealous?
Anyway, what did she really know about him? Her brother's words rang in her ear. Be careful Nandhini, don't get hurt.
Her heart was with Etienne but her mind sent alarms. A part of her wanted to know more about Etienne. First, she needs to go over to his place, maybe seeing him in his own surroundings would get her to understand him better.
She called him. "Sweetie, I'll come over tomorrow, cook dinner maybe," she offered. Silence.
" Yeah, alright. Sorry about this evening Nandhini, I don't know what came over me."
Maybe she was overreacting. It was probably a natural reaction to feel a little jealous.
Next day, Nandhini went over with some groceries and they had a nice time preparing dinner together. After which Etienne poured her a glass of wine. They stood in the balcony talking and enjoying the cool breeze.
Nandhini felt a little chilly and moved closer to Etienne. he looked at her and pulled her closer. She knew what was going to happen next. She felt his tongue inside her.
Why do I fall for this time and again? She asked herself.
Nandhini pulled back gently. She walked inside the apartment. There were some photos on the table top. " Is this your family?" she asked. "Tell me about them."
They are dead. I don't wish to speak about it. Yes that's my family. We were not too close and dad left us when I was only ten.
Nandhini immediately regretted asking. She walked over to Etienne and brushed her fingers through his hair. He looked like a lost little boy. She leaned forward and kissed him on his forehead. " I'm sorry Hun."
Etienne wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her closer, burying his face in her flat warm stomach. He slowly lifted her blouse and kissed her belly. Nandhini could feel the tingly sensation all over her.
This time she didn't pull away. They kissed and he lifted her up and walked into his room and placed her on his bed. Black satin sheets. She was even more turned on.
He pulled his shirt over his head and threw it aside, then unzipping his pants. Nandhini's eyes followed his every move. He was soon lying on her. Nandhini couldn't take the pleasurable pain she felt when he bit her. She liked it.
He continued to move his tongue on her skin and she loved feeling his teeth nibbling at her here and there.And she finally exploded with sheer desire.
Although Etienne's intention was to bite and rip off her flesh, something stopped him from going further.When Nandhini moaned aloud, all he could think of was her pleasure. He did not want to hurt this sweet girl.
Nandhini wasn't like the rest. She wouldn't leave him, would she?
How could she think anything ill of Etienne, Nandhini chided herself. He was a hurt soul without family. She should just love him and take away his pain. Knowing about his family, she felt she understood him a little more.


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When you request a custom PHP code page that uses WordPress functions, you will get a undefined function fatal error related to the WordPress functions you tried to call unless you load the WordPress environment as part of your code. The easiest way to do this is with a line that looks something like this:
You will see examples that require wp-config.php or wp-blog-header.php. These are flawed in some way, do what the core code does and use wp-load.php. Using wp-config.php misses out on the proper error reporting being set and an important constant being defined. Using wp-blog-header.php also loads theme template information. If your code relies on theme templates to do its thing, then this is the file to require. If not, you are needlessly loading more core code than is necessary to run your custom code.
If you only need basic WordPress functionality, you can first define the constant SHORTINIT as true to really minimize the code loaded. You will more than likely still get the undefined function error this way since the function set loaded is quite minimal. It's likely the function you need is not part of that set. It may be worth a try if you anticipate your code page will be subjected to very heavy traffic.
They key concept about loading the environment this way is the path to wp-load.php must be relative to your code page. And therein lies its tragic flaw. Since your code is more than likely in /wp-content/ somewhere, your code cannot possibly know the relative path to wp-load.php because on any given WordPress installation, the administrator could choose to redefine the /wp-content/ folders to reside somewhere else in the folder structure, breaking your relative reference.
And since WordPress can reside any number of folders deep into a website, you cannot use absolute references either. Requiring wp-load.php is the wrong approach! (as is requiring any other core file) If your code is only meant for your own use on your site only, it's acceptable to use this approach. If you intend to distribute your code to others, you must NOT use this approach. If you try to use this approach in code destined for the wordpress.org repository, it will be summarily rejected.
So what should you do? Your options are quite limited actually. You can use
to make a server request through admin-ajax.php and have your code run as an AJAX handler. You
can create a
page template
out of your code, then create a page post type entry based on that
template. To run your code, simply request the page by its title slug. Your only other option is
to send your request through /wp-admin/admin-post.php. This is actually a great option,
but it's not documented anywhere... until now, right here! Since AJAX and page templates are
documented elsewhere, this article will focus only on admin-post.php
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The technique is similar to that used by AJAX. If you are familiar with using AJAX in WordPress, this technique will be very easy to learn. It is actually a fair bit simpler because you do not need JavaScript or jQuery to make a server request. As an example in using admin-post.php, I'll use another sparsely documented technique: a Dynamic CSS page.
All requests are passed through /wp-admin/admin-post.php. What code is actual run for the request is determined by the value of $_REQUEST['action']
If you are making a POST request, the form action points to admin-post.php. You pass the 'action' value in a field of the same name. Since the user would not need to see this field, the best way to do this is to define it in a hidden field that is part of the complete form:
<form action="<?php echo admin_url( 'admin-post.php' ); ?>" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="bcw_dyno"> <input type="submit"> </form>
Add any other fields as needed to pass their values to your request handler.
Despite the name of the file containing "post" and not "get", you can make GET requests through this file with equal success. You can have the form submit as a GET instead of POST, but the most common GET request is the ubiquitous anchor link:
<a href="<?php echo admin_url('admin-post.php?action=bcw_dyno'); ?>">run the code
Note how the 'action' value is simply appended as an URL parameter. You may pass additional
data to the request handler by appending other name=value pairs, each separated with the
ampersand ( & ) symbol.
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Since our goal is to cause a dynamically generated CSS sheet to be loaded onto a page, we ultimately want a meta link in the page head section like this:
<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://apache.lan/sfmblog/wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=bcw_dyno' type='text/css' media='all' />
If you are familiar with stylesheets in WordPress, you know we cannot just stick a meta link like that on our template, we must enqueue our style:
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'bcw_load_css'); function bcw_load_css() { $queried_object = get_queried_object(); // some requests do not result in an object or one with $ID // only enqueue for an actual object that has $ID and test page ID is 1427 if ( $queried_object && isset( $queried_object->ID ) && 1427 == $queried_object->ID ) wp_enqueue_style('dynotest', admin_url('admin-post.php?action=bcw_dyno'), array(), '0.10a'); }
How to enqueue styles is reasonably well documented elsewhere, so I'm not going to explain the code in depth here. The key feature is we use the same link PHP to specify the stylesheet URL as we previously did for the simple anchor link, namely passing an 'action' parameter to admin-post.php. All the code above the wp_enqueue_style() line is to ensure the stylesheet is only loaded on the specific page for which it's intended.
The above requests all result in $_RESULT['action'] having the value 'bcw_dyno'. The admin-post.php script uses this value to construct an action tag, which tag depends on whether the user is logged in to WordPress or not. If logged in, the action value is appended to 'admin_post_', so the complete action tag is 'admin_post_bcw_dyno'. If the user is not logged in, the generated action tag is 'admin_post_nopriv_bcw_dyno'.
Since we want our dynamic stylesheet loaded regardless of whether the user is logged in or not, we must add action functions for both tags (the same function may or may not be used in each case, depending on your specific need):
add_action('admin_post_bcw_dyno', 'bcw_send_css'); add_action('admin_post_nopriv_bcw_dyno', 'bcw_send_css'); function bcw_send_css() { // do something here... return; }
In the above code, 'bcw_send_css' is the callback function (or request handler if you prefer) that actually outputs the CSS stylesheet content. We'll flesh it out a little while later here.
The request handler is the action callback function that runs whatever code you need to execute upon the GET or POST request. This function presumably needs to call some WordPress functions or there would be little point to this exercise. Since the callback function declaration properly resides in either a plugin or child theme functions.php, it is defined along with the complete WordPress environment loaded by admin-post.php. Your function thus has access to all WordPress functions, and other WordPress code has access to your callback function. In particular, the code in admin-post.php that calls your function is do_action(), which ultimately uses call_user_func_array().
Any content you want to be sent to the browser in response to the request is echoed or otherwise
output from your request handler. The code may do anything else necessary as well, such as
adding something to the database or any other task that's doable with PHP.
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For the browser to think it is getting an actual CSS file instead of a PHP coded artifact, we must send the proper header:
header('Content-type: text/css');
All that's left for our example to do now is output the CSS content. For the sake of an example, let's assume we need to use a WordPress function to construct the proper path to a background image (typically a static relative reference should suffice here):
$path = get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/img/test-bg.png';
Now that we have the proper $path, we simply output the CSS content:
echo "#testarea { background-image: url( $path ); background-color: #ddd; width: 500px; height: 350px; color: #0aa; padding: 2em; }";
Here is the page template that the CSS is applied to. A page is created based on it and the ID noted for use in the PHP code in the child theme's functions.php. Unlike using a page template to access the WordPress environment, this template is simply a test bed for our dynamic CSS example. Any other page or post would have sufficed provided the 'testarea' div ID exists somewhere. It is not a vehicle for accessing the WordPress environment in this case, it's just a convenient test bed.

CSS Test

This area should have a background image

 <?php get_footer();
The following is the applicable PHP code added to functions.php of the child theme (the page made from the above template ended up as ID 1427, which is used in the conditional enqueue script logic below):
// enqueue stylesheet when test page is requested add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'bcw_load_css'); function bcw_load_css() { $queried_object = get_queried_object(); // some requests do not result in an object if ( $queried_object && 1427 == $queried_object->ID ) // only enqueue for an actual object and test page ID 1427 wp_enqueue_style('dynotest', admin_url('admin-post.php?action=bcw_dyno'), array(), '0.10a'); } // output the CSS 'file' add_action('admin_post_bcw_dyno', 'bcw_send_css'); add_action('admin_post_nopriv_bcw_dyno', 'bcw_send_css'); function bcw_send_css() { header('Content-type: text/css'); $path = get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/img/test-bg.png'; echo "#testarea { background-image: url( $path ); background-color: #ddd; width: 500px; height: 350px; color: #0aa; padding: 2em; }"; return; }


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Truck Accident on I-35 Near Lorena Stalls Traffic, One Injured
Posted By The Carlson Law Firm || 21-Mar-2013
A truck accident on northbound I-35 near Lorena at mile marker 323, involving at least two 18 wheelers and as many as four passenger vehicles sent at least one person to the hospital with injuries on Thursday, officials reported.
According to a report published by KWTX News, one of the semi trucks was hauling stone. The other big rig was pulling a trailer used for hauling cars.
Police said the accident occurred at approximately 9:15 a.m., shutting down northbound I-35 for a three mile long stretch of interstate.
One of the passenger vehicles pictured among news sources appeared to be a gray Honda sedan and a red vehicle. No word regarding what may have caused the multi-vehicle collision has yet been released, nor have police identified any of the drivers or passengers involved in the truck wreck on I-35.
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The blogosphere, when used incorrectly, is a relatively anonymous place to say nasty things about the ideas and character of others. At its best the blogosphere confronts us with ideas that are different from our's and occasionally leads us to blogs we never would have found without the references of others.
Consider this: John Shuck and I aren't exactly in the same theological camp. Actually that's like saying that the solar system is part of the Pinwheel Galaxy (go ahead, look it up!). I think John would agree that we have rather different theological ideas but somehow we still manage to get along. I won't try to define John as I'm not sure even John can define John!
BUT it was on John's blog that I first saw a reference to Dr. April DeConnick, expert in early Christian literature, both that which later became orthodox and that which did not become orthodox and some stuff that was always really way out there. Dr. DeConnick persuaded me to buy a couple of her books, not by recommendation but rather by her writings on her blog. So now I know more about the Gospel of Judas (and the disagreements about it) than I ever expected to know. I read regular posts about this and that Gnostic group and pleas that all scholars who actually want to do scholarship on early Christian literature must also learn Coptic. (And I thought I was uneducated because I never learned Latin and I've let my Hebrew slip!) She continues to plan and schedule conferences that I am unable to attend (she is in Houston TX and I am in Philadelphia PA) and recommend papers that will be read at the meetings of the Society for Biblical Literature which I can also not attend. How could I ever explain to the Session that hearing papers on obscure Gnostic texts will somehow help the congregation?
Yesterday Dr. DeConnick recommended a new blog by a colleague of her's from England Larry Hurtado who's specialty is Textual Criticism and other things pertaining to it. Someone named David commented on one of Dr. Hurtado's blog posts which directed me to an old book. Which brings us to the part where I talk about the internet.
One of the nicest things about the internet is that you can find just about anything information you want if you just put the right words together in a web search. That, BTW is how I found the Pinwheel Galaxy. I just googled galaxy names and found a list. On a more serious note David mentioned a book that is an absolute must have for those who are interested in how to do Textual Criticism, The New Testament in the Original Greek: Introduction and Appendix by Hort and Westcott, the folks who really turned Textual Criticism into a science (and who list every possible text available to them in their texual notes in their Greek New Testament). Fortunately their book is old enough to be in the public domain and I am in the process of downloading it right now (it's over 29 mbs). I plan to read this baby on my vacation this summer (which confuses my children and amuses my wife). It seems that libraries are scanning their older texts and placing them online in PDF format. If one is a student at a registered school one already has free access to all kinds of papers available online. Now the books are becoming available too. BTW you can find Mark Twain free online too. So don't neglect that celebrated jumping frog!
And I wouldn't have found Hort and Westcott's book if I hadn't been reading John Shuck's blog which referred to Dr. Deconnick, who referred to Dr. Hurtado on who's blog David commented and made a reference to Hort and Westcott. Thank you John and Dr. Deconnick and Dr. Hurtado (who's blog I have added to my bookmarks) and David!
Who would have thought that when Al Gore invented the internet :) that it would be a scholarly resource for theologians and Biblical scholars and people like me who think reading such is fun! And for free too! As a Scottish immigrant who is a member of Tully Memorial (she's 92 and going strong) says, "There's no point in being Scottish unless you work at it!" Free literature is where it's at!
6 more mbs to go! Have fun out there on the internet ya'll. And be careful out there!
Just a few years ago
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Posted by Pastor Bob at 4:41 AM
1 comment:
- Kattie W. Coon said...
The trick with the Internet is separating the wheat from the chaff. Thanks for the book reference; it seems like something I ought to read.
- July 7, 2010 at 7:05 AM
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When it comes to personalities, I am a Planner, and being a Planner means a lot of things frustrate me.
Slow people, for one. Like when you're in a hurry somewhere to do something, or late for something, and everyone around you seems to be taking their leisurely time with strolling – I literally can't deal! The sinner in me literally has to stop herself from going ape-crazy and just shoving people out of my way lol.
And what about interruptions??? Yes, there have always been 24 hours in a day, and we are constantly building new contraptions to make more and more of it available for other things – but let's face it, very few of us can say we have the time for unwanted interruptions. There's just so much more to do: deadlines to meet and errands to run, and I personally hate to waste a second if it's not for sleep purposes lol. So any disruption or interruption to my meticulously planned schedule – especially when there's something at stake or a goal to reach at the end of it – makes me very very unhappy.
And don't even get me started on having to wait – especially when it's urgent or a seemingly life or death situation. Lines and crowds are just generally a natural deterrent for me. It's why I dislike shopping in-store or going to concerts and events.
So, in light of all these, I can't even begin to imagine how Jarius felt.
You may or may not know this man, but he's pretty famous by Biblical standards. His story is recounted in three out of four of the gospels of Jesus. He was a prominent leader in his time – a ruler of the synagogue – and had an ailing daughter at home. Hearing of Jesus and his miraculous healing power, Jarius seeks him out, falls at his feet, and begs him to come save his daughter.
Jesus obliges his request. I can see Jarius' eyes lighting up, and just imagine how his heart skipped a beat in hope that his daughter would be healed by this man.
But just as they are about to set off, there comes an interruption:
Jesus stops in his tracks and asks, "Who touched me?"
Jarius looks around. There are literally thousands of men, women and children all pushing and shoving for even as little as a glimpse of Jesus. His own hands have brushed more body parts then he would have liked. Jesus couldn't possibly be serious asking this question!
"We're like sardines in a can here, Teacher," Peter points out to him, noticing the dismay on Jarius' face. "Any number of people could have touched you. We're kind of in a hurry here."
But Jesus doesn't budge. "No, someone touched me. Power left me. I felt it." He continues to scan the crowd, searching for the culprit. After what seems like a lifetime, a woman steps forward and falls at Jesus' feet, just as Jarius had moments before. She confesses herself to be the one who had touched Jesus, recounting the story of her sickness and how Jesus healed her. Jesus calmly listens and reassures her of her healing.
At this point, I'm sure Jarius starts to panic. His daughter is lying on her death bed. Jesus isn't the fastest walker in the world as is – there's no way he can save his daughter's life if he spends all this time trying to connect with and heal others. Jarius knew that if things continued this way, they would not make it to his daughter in time.
And it's in this that I can identify with Jarius.
I too have put God on a timeline – a deadline after which my world will end if he does not do something quick. And, like Jarius, as I beseech Jesus to come attend to my pressing matters, I look on as he takes his leisurely time and tends to others'.
Sometimes it can seem like God is working on everyone else's problems but yours, even when yours seem to be the most dire ones. You are literally at the end of your rope, and Jesus seems to have turned away to deal with other requests. And like frustrated customers when someone crosses in front of us in line, we protest: "I was here first! I have worked the hardest! I deserve this the most! Can you not see me standing right here?! I need your attention more!"
And then, as expected, the worst happens. The deadline comes and nothing has changed. Suddenly your greatest fears are realized. Your bank account is empty. You lost your job, or a loved one, or a dream. Everything you worked for falls apart.
As Jesus tended to others, Jarius' world fell apart too. As they finally pulled away from the crowd, Jarius received news from someone in his household that his daughter had died.
"Do not trouble Jesus anymore." They said. "It's over."
But without hesitation Jesus spoke up:
"Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well."
Reading this story this morning reminded me of how easy it is to put limitations on God. We set up imaginary deadlines and are in a hurry to make them, and are completely bewildered – and honestly quite frustrated – when it seems like Jesus is taking his sweet time in meeting them.
But guess what? The creator of the Universe isn't running on our time. He is not functioning in the same 24-hour time frame we are. Our deadlines mean nothing to Him – and by expecting Him to stick to them, we are essentially limiting his power in our lives. We stop 'troubling' Jesus – we stop praying and believing simply because we cannot see Him for who He is – omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
He is a God of suddenlies.
The story continues that Jesus goes to the girl (who is indeed dead), calls to her, and suddenly she gets up. God can step into the middle of your mess at any moment – even when it seems like it's all dead and gone – and SUDDENLY radically change it for the better.
Just imagine what God could achieve in our lives if we stopped limiting his abilities to our schedule. If we believed in Him and His power to change things for our good even after the case was closed and the verdict had been given.
Just imagine what would happen if we actually believed that God was God and stopped limiting Him to our own abilities and deadlines.
Today God is asking me – asking you – 'Will you take the limits off of me? Will you release me from your constraints and allow me to do what it is that I do: "exceedingly and abundantly far beyond ALL that you can ask, think, or imagine?"'
I don't know about you, but I definitely have some deadlines in my planner that I have penned Him into, and it's about time I take Him off.


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Have you turned your back on the paperback?
Amazon has announced that in the US it sold more e-books for its Kindle device than it sold paperback books in the last three months of 2010. Is this the start of an e-book revolution?
Over the pond, the Office of National Statistics said books sales by UK publishers had fallen by 5.9% from 492 million books in 2007 to 463 million in 2009.
The number of adults visiting public libraries also steadily fell, although more children appeared to be taking books out.
Libraries are facing the brunt of council cuts, with many closing all over the UK - forcing many people to take stock of what the loss of free service means for them. But are they being targeted because people prefer to read books online?
Do you read e-books? Do you prefer paperbacks? Do you visit your local library? How will we be reading books in the future?
Thank you for your comments. This debate is now closed.
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Comment number 1.At 14:06 28th Jan 2011, Bauer wrote:
Reading for fun? Madness I say!
Oh gotta go, X-Factor is on!
Comment number 2.At 14:08 28th Jan 2011, Ernie Stephenson wrote:
No, but the industry is...
Comment number 3.At 14:10 28th Jan 2011, hirundine608 wrote:
Yes, I have an e-reader a Sony. It is about the size of a paperback but thinner and lighter. I like it and have about 3 books waiting to be read. So, at a doctor's surgery or wherever I wish to read while waiting. I pull it out and it is so much smaller than those books would take; in my pocket. I still value reading paperbacks or books. The e-reader is just more convenient, in general.
Comment number 4.At 14:10 28th Jan 2011, Khuli wrote:
Personally I don't read e-books, I prefer to read real book.
Having said that, I don't buy many books nowadays, although I have hundreds of books from when I used to - which was probably before the advent of the internet, online gaming, and other such diversions.
I see an increasing number of people with Kindles and the like, and no doubt it will increase in popularity for some time yet.
Comment number 5.At 14:12 28th Jan 2011, danixd wrote:
23 year old web developer. I prefer the real thing.
Comment number 6.At 14:15 28th Jan 2011, ting wrote:
I think there are pros and cons for both e-books and paperbooks. However personally I would rather read paperbooks as I find them easier to read.
I use to borrow books from the libary when I was a student or jobless. However I do not have time to use libraries because I work full time. Also I do not like reading books that have been handled by other people- I have come accross a few grubby books. Plus I no longer like using libraries as my library certainly seems to be a haven for the great unwashed and a playground for kids. Staff are no longer allowed to tell kids off for being noisy and cannot refuse entry to smelly people either! A library is meant to be peaceful and clean afterall! If I really want to read a book I will buy it from a cheap online shop.
Comment number 7.At 14:18 28th Jan 2011, chrislabiff wrote:
Too many pixels make my eyes water so naturally I prefer books.
I think that over-reliance on electronics is far too many eggs in one basket.
Comment number 8.At 14:18 28th Jan 2011, Last day wrote:
I'm doing part time study at the moment and came across my an e-book for the first time this semester. I haven't referred to it much so far so can't really judge. I can see the benefits of though - portable, lighter etc.
Comment number 9.At 14:19 28th Jan 2011, Paul J Weighell wrote:
I don't read e-books. I don't buy paperbacks. I do buy non-fiction books and I often buy 2nd hand from Charing Cross Road dealers. Good quality books can be resold whereas as e-books cannot be and there are still many advantages to real books but of course sellers of e-book readers will want you to buy their hardware and, eventually, suffer online adverts to pay for your 'free' books and that is what is driving the move to e-books online...
Comment number 10.At 14:22 28th Jan 2011, HantsCricketFan wrote:
I'm a fan of real books and can't imagine curling up in bed with an e-book. That said I can see the appeal for things like holidays and have already invested in an iPod to allow me to listen to my entire music collection or watch films when travelling (which I do a lot through work).
In recent years supermarkets seem to have embraced the book market and have gone beyond the best seller chart. A recent visit to Asda saw books like Schindler's Ark and The Godfather available for less than £4 which is half what the high street would charge for the same book.
Comment number 11.At 14:23 28th Jan 2011, Soreshins wrote:
I suspect a lot of those figures are made up of people new to electronic books going on a download frenzy with their new toy. The 3 or 4 people I know who bought one last year immediately downloaded about 6 months worth of reading in one go, especially when they discovered that loads of classics are available for pennies. They aren't actually reading more than previously, so once the novelty of newness has worn off and e-books stop being the latest must-have gadget we'll see the percentage numbers change.
Comment number 12.At 14:23 28th Jan 2011, RubbishGirl wrote:
I'll probably get a kindle (or simillar) eventually, for travelling, but it'll never beat the feel of a real book in my hands. I love my collection of books & think you can tell a lot about a person by what they have on their shelves (& in their bathroom!)
The main problem I have with e books is that you can't lend it to someone without giving them the device it's downloaded onto. If I buy a great book I own that copy & can legally share it with my friends but I can't do that with a kindle, you only own the download you bought & can't transfer it to some other tech (though I'm sure some "naughty" people have found ways round this.)
Other issues are the current cost of the tech, making it a bit too pricey for me to feel comfortable taking it on holiday & the fact that I read in the bath & the screen will get all steamy!
I think the good ole paperback will be here for a while yet. Just look at vinyl, everyone said that was dead too. :)
Comment number 13.At 14:25 28th Jan 2011, Fugl5 wrote:
Those trees won't plant themselves...
Oh wait
I prefer paperbacks, but that's probably because nobody has bought me a kindle yet.
Comment number 14.At 14:26 28th Jan 2011, MassMediocrity wrote:
Being a bit of a gadget freak i am rather intrigued by e-readers, although i just can't bring myself to pick one up, and i honestly couldn't tell anyone why!
There's something about the feel & smell of a book and general ambience that i think can be recreated by a rather whizzy new Kindle (or other reader). I'm sure i'll end up with one sometime or another, but not yet.
Comment number 15.At 14:26 28th Jan 2011, ProfPhoenix wrote:
I love to read in the bath. Plug in my lap top and read until I fall asleep. No need to worry about a paperback getting wet.
Comment number 16.At 14:27 28th Jan 2011, europhile wrote:
I must agree with #3, I travel a lot and started reading books, (I love detective stuff like Rebus/Morse etc)to allieviate boredom at airports and on planes and hotel bars, now I have hundreds of them.
So i will invest in one of these kindle, is that right, things.
Comment number 17.At 14:29 28th Jan 2011, in_the_uk wrote:
I spend so much time in front of the computer I prefer the look and feel of a real book. They are also nicer to look at and you know they are physically there when you want them. If amazon removed your book you can be stuck without your purchase.
Comment number 18.At 14:30 28th Jan 2011, teedoff wrote:
Probably not only, but also, Isaac Asimov wrote about electronic readers as normal in his future-history. From science fiction they have become science fact. But he also had a soft spot for hard copy and included his feelings in several of his stories.
For myself, I haven't yet been pulled into the gadget world of iPhones and iPads and Kindles and the like. I really like to read a proper paperback, gently bending the pages and covers as I try to not break the spine. There is a certain tactile sensation that is more comforting to me.
Looking to the future, though, I'm sure that I will fall prey to the inexorable march of technology and will probably enjoy reading words from a tablet-form e-book. But I DO think that i'll feel slightly poorer for it.
Comment number 19.At 14:33 28th Jan 2011, Michael Lloyd wrote:
I have analogue and digital radio, digital TV, cassettes, vinyl, CDs and DVDs for entertainment, but I still prefer a book.
You don't need a power source for a book, it works everywhere and it isn't digital so it doesn't suddenly go bersek and refuse to allow you to read it (Oh yes, they do that....... being the usual response when digital loses the plot!).
What is more, many older books are not available on these modern electronic "readers" so why would I be bothered to waste money on one?
Comment number 20.At 14:33 28th Jan 2011, Trina wrote:
E-book in the bath or on the beach? Not a good idea. And something else for the battery to run flat and make useless, just when you need it.
For now, happy to dog-ear the book and read without a glare from the page.
Comment number 21.At 14:35 28th Jan 2011, th3_0r4cl3 wrote:
I have a mobile phone that plays mp3's which strangely enough is the format that most audio books come in. As for E readers what a complete waste of money i have a laptop that does everything an e-reader does plus everything an ipad does plus everything a desktop pc does and everything a tv and video does why on earth would i buy another piece of kit when my 1 device does it all.!
Oh yeah thats right consume consume consume.
Comment number 22.At 14:36 28th Jan 2011, Neil Hardie wrote:
Not a huge fan of e-books. There's something satisfying not just about the feel and portability of a paperback, it's the smell of opening a new book, too.
I should confess I have another reason for not being wild about digital publishing. I am an author with 14 books in my back catalogue. My publisher has just asked to amend my contract to take account of digital publishing. As a sweetener, it has offered to double my royalty from 10% to 20% for the sales of e-book version of my books. In return, I have to agree that the publisher will hold the rights "for as long as the work is in print". Since we're talking digital, the work will be in print potentially for ever. It's not as if they have to crank up the presses for another 20,000 copies in a new edition.
In other words, in return for the 20% royalty, I have to sign over the rights to my books to this publisher for good.
I haven't signed.
Comment number 23.At 14:36 28th Jan 2011, Paul wrote:
Its a tough choice.
I'm an avid reader, and I only have real paper books in my collection, but this is about to change.
I've seen the e-readers on the market today, and they have swayed me. A screen that mimics paper in its reflectiveness, the ability to store thousands of books on a single lightweight device, and libraries of purchases that are forever safe in the cloud - Books can't compete.
Some people prefer the feel and smell of paper, and the lovely intellectual feel that you get from a room full of books. True this can't be replicated with a digital book, but does that really matter?
Times change. In times past we scribbled our thoughts and stories down on planks of wood and lumps of granite. Now we want those stories and thoughts in 1's and 0's - I think its just important that we still want to read, learn and pass on knowledge.
Comment number 24.At 14:36 28th Jan 2011, PFC_Kent wrote:
I find I can not read off of a screen after a day using one so haven't really looked into digital readers. I would be sad to see books go the way of CDs but as long as people are still reading we should be happy.
Comment number 25.At 14:37 28th Jan 2011, Chris wrote:
E-books are a fad that will disappear in a few years time, when books will still be going strong (albeit not in the same quantities). I bought £24-worth of books in The Works yesterday for £1.97. Awesome, and what great quality books.
Don't celebrate the demise of books just yet, there are those of us who still enjoy the sound of flicking through the pages of a book (something you don't have to plug in to charge up!).
Comment number 26.At 14:38 28th Jan 2011, karen dark wrote:
All very well, until there's a shortage of batteries. And you can't rummage through e-books like you can with the real thing in a second-hand shop. The day Hay-on-Wye closes down all its shops we will know the printed book has died.
Comment number 27.At 14:43 28th Jan 2011, bounce bounce bounce wrote:
Save some trees, people.
Look to the future.
Paper is a thing of the past. E-books are the future.
Those who say no are selfish pigs and have no regard for the wider picture (the environment).
Comment number 28.At 14:46 28th Jan 2011, Simon Heathwood wrote:
Paperbacks all the way for me. Spending the bulk of my working day looking at a screen, I have no desire at all to read a book from one for pleasure, in fact as trying to read a long document from a screen drives cross eyed, i usually print those as then i have no problem.
If paperbacks disapeared and the only way to get books was to buy e-books, I would print them and read them.
Comment number 29.At 14:47 28th Jan 2011, Karen Jules-Louis wrote:
Call me old fashioned, but I love my books. I love the feel and smell of the book/pages. To me, whenever I open up a book I am IN it - feels like curling up with an old friend. Sorry, but I can't get that feeling from an E-book.
Comment number 30.At 14:47 28th Jan 2011, frank wrote:
Reading happens to be one of my favourite hobbies and I couldn't care less if that appears boring to some people! I borrow books from the library regularly and, when I can afford to, enjoy buying new books, or second hand ones. I certainly do not wish to read books on line. In fact I am one of the (seemingly) few people in this world who do not have a computer at home, nor do I wish to have one. I have never followed the herd and for that matter do not use a mobile phone either. Yet somehow I manage to enjoy my life very well. I hate the thought that libraries may close but I do realise that many people chose other options to read which is, of course, entirely up to them. The many cutbacks that this unelected govermnet are imposing will do little for economic growth, just cause much misery to many. And as has just be proven the unelected government's so called policies failed miserably for the last quarter last year-to have to use the weather as an excuse shows just how pathetic they are.
Comment number 31.At 14:48 28th Jan 2011, RubbishGirl wrote:
Mind you an E book would have been a help with the latest Wheel Of Time novel. It's a breezeblock!
Comment number 32.At 14:49 28th Jan 2011, PeterTigerman wrote:
This is another case of marketing hype. Most people by Paperback from shops and not on line. People by hardbacks on line usually. Therfore to compare the sale of electronic readers and paper backs is just not on. Typical marketing talk.
Comment number 33.At 14:51 28th Jan 2011, Kickstart wrote:
Books are bought to keep, and probably reread in the future. Too much chance that any e book bought now will be in an obsolete format and unreadable once I want to read it again.
Comment number 34.At 14:54 28th Jan 2011, paul wrote:
I shall continue to read books in "book form".
E-books are not easy on the eye. Require battery or mains power and would look particularly rubbish on my bookshelves.
Don't worry about the tree's issue, the trees are planted to pulp the only eco problem are the chemicals used in paper making. But think about the batteries, power used, component parts of PC's IPADS etc.
Comment number 35.At 14:54 28th Jan 2011, Steveh11 wrote:
I don't see this as either/or at all. I have a Kindle and think it's wonderful, but on the other hand I have a huge number of books at home - far too many, according to my wife. I have four books currently 'on-the-go', including one on the Kindle, two paperbacks and a hardback. Anything that increases my opportunities to read is a good thing!
Comment number 36.At 14:55 28th Jan 2011, IanR12 wrote:
I purchased an Amazon Kindle last September and it has become my preferred way of reading where there is an eBook version of the book I want. I reckon that the eBook reader will do for reading what the iPod has done for music listening.
Comment number 37.At 14:58 28th Jan 2011, paul wrote:
27. At 2:43pm on 28 Jan 2011, U8860545 wrote:
Save some trees, people.
Look to the future.
Paper is a thing of the past. E-books are the future.
Those who say no are selfish pigs and have no regard for the wider picture (the environment).
Calm down, pulp trees are planted for this, they feel no pain.
As long as tree's are replanted and care is taken with paper making you are causing more damage with discarded batteries and pc component parts.
I read a great deal, however I have planted more tree's then I have had destroyed for my books.
Comment number 38.At 14:59 28th Jan 2011, General_Jack_Ripper wrote:
U8860545 wrote:
Save some trees, people.
Look to the future.
Paper is a thing of the past. E-books are the future.
Those who say no are selfish pigs and have no regard for the wider picture (the environment).
You appear to be a little confused, books are made from a renewable resource and also act as a carbon deposit whereas e-books require rare earth metals, use up massive amounts of energy during their manufacture, even more energy every time you re-charge the batteries and also contain a several different materials that are harmful to the environment if not properly disposed of.
It will be a very long time before an e-book is developed that is more environmentally friendly than a paperback book and there's a good chance that such a product will never be developed given the minimal energy and resources required to produce a book that could potentially last for a several centuries.
I still own books that I bought in the 1940s; I wonder how many e-books will still be working 60 years after they were manufactured...
Comment number 39.At 15:03 28th Jan 2011, Small acts of defiance wrote:
Amazon must be spending millions of dollars trying to persuade us to buy one of their pathetic gadgets. Remember: an e-book is not yours to keep; it's simply on permanent loan from Amazon.
Amazon, if you're listening: I DON'T WANT ONE!
Comment number 40.At 15:03 28th Jan 2011, Dominic wrote:
"Amazon has announced that in the US it sold more e-books for its Kindle device than it sold paperback books in the last three months of 2010. Is this the start of an e-book revolution?"
No. All that means is that those in America that buy their books on Amazon have starting buying e-books. You cannot extrapolate that data onto the entire world literature market and think that people prefer e-books. Who wants to read a book on a screen? Paul Calf would say that it's a bag of something.
Comment number 41.At 15:03 28th Jan 2011, Bart Littlebird wrote:
I have the kindle app on my iPhone but I hardly ever use it. It's handy for travelling but that's about it. I much prefer a real book, they are far more satisfying.
Comment number 42.At 15:03 28th Jan 2011, wvpTV wrote:
UK publishers USA sales down by 5.9%...
During this period....
Amazon changed it's selling practices, saying prominently that a book was unavailable and in harder to see smaller print how the book might be bought elsewhere, in effect reducing sales for small publishers.
Google Books has been promoting 100'000's of books from small publishers with the real Publisher Name removed and a false one inserted, sending buyers on a wild goose chase thus reducing sales for small publishers.
In our view, this is no accident, it's simply ruthless business practice.
Comment number 43.At 15:05 28th Jan 2011, Small acts of defiance wrote:
Stuff the Kindle, support your local library!
Comment number 44.At 15:07 28th Jan 2011, corum-populo-2010 wrote:
"Have you turned your back on the paperback"? is the HYS question.
Nope. No way. Pass them on and share.
As for post 27 @ 2:43pm on 28 Jan 2011 - get over yourself in your polluting battery and electricity driven fantasy land? E-books have their place - will you share or pass on your expensive E-book toy - or donate it to a charity shop or a care home? Doubt it.
Comment number 45.At 15:11 28th Jan 2011, Magi Tatcher wrote:
The e-book is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Comment number 46.At 15:13 28th Jan 2011, Maybridge wrote:
E readers don't have the right feel!
Comment number 47.At 15:14 28th Jan 2011, teedoff wrote:
My wife requires glasses for computer work, because staring at the screen gives her a headache. I also require glasses for computer work, and many other activities because my eyesight is poor. Neither of us need glasses for reading - she doesn't get a headache and my short-sightedness isn't an issue with books.
As has been said, the smell, touch and flexibility of a book are advantages - the bulk of having several books is a disadvantage. But when e-books (solar powered, I'm sure, to please the environmentalists, and without the toxic batteries they now use) are the norm there will still be something special about seeing a library of books. As an example I have a set of encyclopaediae that is quite out of date, yet still a marvellous reference and still well used.
So have I turned my back on paperbacks? Definitely not. Reading a paperback relaxes me and my eyes; reading a computer screen, however deviously it pretends to be a book, strains my eyes and I find it like comparing beer-mats - I can't get no relax.
Comment number 48.At 15:15 28th Jan 2011, LeftLibertarian wrote:
Your reading choices will be determined by your e-reader's manufacturer.
A retrograde step.
Comment number 49.At 15:17 28th Jan 2011, Lucy Lastic wrote:
As an avid reader of books both hard and paper back I am not happy with the thought of being forced to go with the prospect of having a Kindle (stupid name) or any other form of e-reader. The only advantage I see is that my wife cannot complain about me wanting to turn the lights out at night when she wants to carry on reading. I have many questions relating to the e-readers. One being how is it going to affect my local library. Also that the book shelves I have would be redundant.
Comment number 50.At 15:17 28th Jan 2011, Martin1983 wrote:
I've bought an Amazon Kindle. It's light and convenient to use, although at times it tends to freeze or some other technical glitch occurs. For this reason, e-books will never replace the traditional book. There's just something about the trusty paperback, a certain quality, probably its inherent simplicity, that you just can't get with an electronic version.
Comment number 51.At 15:17 28th Jan 2011, Bart Littlebird wrote:
"12. At 2:23pm on 28 Jan 2011, RubbishGirl wrote:
The main problem I have with e books is that you can't lend it to someone without giving them the device it's downloaded onto"
Totally agree with you there. If I read a really good book I want to be able to pass it on to friends or family so that they can enjoy it as well. Both me and my Mum are avid readers so we're always swapping books with each other. You just can't do that with an e book.
Comment number 52.At 15:17 28th Jan 2011, Smuggy555 wrote:
I still like analog technology (books !) instead of those new fangled digital devices.
I already spend too much of my life staring at a screen, thankyouverymuch.
Comment number 53.At 15:18 28th Jan 2011, EarlyBaby Boomer wrote:
No, having worked in IT for well over thirty years, I can say categorically that I will never use an e-book, I will continue to buy Hard and Paper Back books. An e-book to me is a transient thing with no life or soul, it is temporary, not permanent as a real book is.
Comment number 54.At 15:21 28th Jan 2011, leggylegz wrote:
Every so often, whenever I'm in a different town I'll visit a charity shop and buy several second-hand paperback novels at the same cost you would pay for one new one.
I like to read the books while I'm soaking in a hot, steamy bath. (Not so good in the shower.) Either way, a Kindle device would not be suitable.
Comment number 55.At 15:21 28th Jan 2011, David Windsor wrote:
Giving up on paperbacks, well no. I spend quite enough time reading and writing on screens. Reading a book is quite a different sensation on a screen and not one I want to follow. Now, books on CD/dvd that you can listen to whilst driving or doing low grade computer stuff- thats different and if supply wan't so limited I could do a lot more of that. Thats true freedom .
Comment number 56.At 15:22 28th Jan 2011, tsigili wrote:
Why would you turn your back on convenience? With paperbacks, you can read whenever you want, you can share with others, and you can use it as reference, forever.
Nothing electronic, is forever. Nothing.
Comment number 57.At 15:23 28th Jan 2011, Lewis Fitzroy wrote:
Books are here to stay 100s of years so far? gadgets are soon outdated and replaced today its in fashion tomorrow landfill.
Comment number 58.At 15:25 28th Jan 2011, paramkv wrote:
Whether we like it or not, the printed books are slowly giving way to ebooks. The time is not too far when the printed books will share the fate of manuscripts in today's manuscript libraries.
Comment number 59.At 15:28 28th Jan 2011, richardgh wrote:
I am a fan of books - have several thousand - buy and sometimes sell them cheaply on Ebay and enjoy reading them everywhere. Can loan them to friends. Trouble is too expensive to buy new.
I also enjoy audio books - again bought on Ebay.
Don't think I'll buy a Kindle
Comment number 60.At 15:29 28th Jan 2011, Anna wrote:
I'm turning to eBooks and my local library (to whom I'm gradually donating most of my books).
Comment number 61.At 15:30 28th Jan 2011, Steven Quas Collins wrote:
It's very disappointing that Kindle books are often a similar price and sometimes more than the paperback version. You would think the costs saving of electronic delivery would make them a fraction of the price, but it seems to be a high margin business at the moment.
Steven Quas Collins
Comment number 62.At 15:32 28th Jan 2011, deleted wrote:
I like proper books over digital. Not got a kindle or similar and I doubt I will unless they get to be about £20. I also like looking at books on a bookshelf - in a similar way, I have thousands of vinyl records and CDs - although I have to admit that I use the internet for research and the like, as it's easier. I reckon an e-reader would give me a headache as well.
My worry would be losing an e-reader or it getting wet/broke. I can afford to throw away a 50p book. Can't afford to lose £100 or whatever they cost.
I would suggest the figures may be being played with as well. Don't some readers come with about 1500 books already on them? Are they being used in the figures? E-readers and e-bboks are fairly new as well, so I reckon sales will begin to tail off at some point (and pirating will play a part here), whereas we've had books for thousands of years. You can lend someone a book as well or browse them in waiting rooms. You can't do that with an e-reader.
The libraries debate is something else altogether. Councils use them in the wrong way.
Comment number 63.At 15:34 28th Jan 2011, Killer Boots Man wrote:
I used to read on my old smartphone but it wasn't very well designed for that and was a bit of a chore. I now have an iPhone, I tested an e-reader app on my brother's iPod before making the decision to buy one and it made my mind up for me. I have never looked back and read on it every day. Everyone who is able should give it a try, you can carry many books around wherever you go and it is much easier.
Comment number 64.At 15:37 28th Jan 2011, Killer Boots Man wrote:
To add to my above comment in answer to the critics, Amazon and Kindle is not your only option. You can start using ebooks without supporting Amazon's world domination.
Comment number 65.At 15:37 28th Jan 2011, Ron C wrote:
Nothing like nodding off to sleep cradling a good softback, can`t really imagine doing the same with a computer screen.
Comment number 66.At 15:38 28th Jan 2011, ruffled_feathers wrote:
I love my paper books. Don't read fiction any more, but I don't think that is the point, is it?
In years to come, I can't really see people going through secondhand e-book shops with the same enthusiasm that they do in secondhand bookshops.
Comment number 67.At 15:44 28th Jan 2011, Lucy Clake wrote:
As an ex librarian, with one room of our house full of books, none of which I can bring myself to destroy, I fully understand anyone's attachment to books. However things move on. Probably reading a novel for pleasure still holds attraction, particularly for older people, when in paper form but for non-fiction and information the computer has taken over. Few libraries can offer the same wealth of data. In fact for many youngsters the internet almost presents the problem of information overload
Comment number 68.At 15:45 28th Jan 2011, AM wrote:
I spend all my day on a PC the last thing I would be to is spend it on a cut down PC e-reader! Anyway, I only like magazines with loads of colour pictures.
As for libraries aren't they going to be closed but opening again by volunteers – have you not been following the government's BIG society? Like we are going to sack all the road sweepers and council litter pickers – then pay then on the dole to do the same job.
Comment number 69.At 15:47 28th Jan 2011, Ralph King wrote:
I download more digital books now than real ones. It's great to get them within seconds of ordering them. I have the reading software set up on three of my computers and it always remembers were I am up to. There's no chance of loosing any books because the system knows what you have purchased and updates any new computer you add your account to.
I haven't bought a hand-held device yet but it's getting more tempting.
If the books are good enough, you forget you're reading from a screen and your finger clicks the page down button without you thinking about it.
Once I've finished the book, it doesn't take up space in my house either.
Comment number 70.At 15:49 28th Jan 2011, Jin Kazama wrote:
Paperback all the way. Trust when I say there's nothing more satisfying when you finish reading a book/novel and waiting for the authors' next follow up sequel or new story.
Besides digital book are bad for your eyes.
Comment number 71.At 15:50 28th Jan 2011, super_soup wrote:
I have an e-reader for my leisure reading, but still prefer real reference books as I find it easier to flick back and forth.
However, the ereader is brilliant. The technology is unbelievable and a type of ink is used so you do not get glare as with a LCD screen. Infact if you aren't converted yet, compare a kindle 'page' to a real book's page and tell me there is any difference.
What I like about ereaders is if my eyes are tired I can increase the font size, it fits in my pocket and I can store 000s of books on it!
However, I will always use real books as well and can't see them ever disappeating completely.
Comment number 72.At 15:50 28th Jan 2011, leng wrote:
Yep last year whilst on holiday, in Florida searched high and low for a particualr book to read on return flight. In the end got 2 books downloaded on my iphone for nothing.
Ease and freedom is the simple answer, not mentioning the saving of the enviroment.
Comment number 73.At 15:52 28th Jan 2011, Profcynic wrote:
You can't whap cockroaches with a kindle.
Comment number 74.At 15:54 28th Jan 2011, milvusvestal wrote:
I've only ever read a paperback under protest; I much prefer the feel of a hard-backed book but, even so, the content is surely more important and it can't really matter what medium it is presented in.
Libraries have their place, though, even faced with new e-book technology. The convenience of flicking through the shelves and borrowing a couple of books per week, entirely free of charge is, for me, preferable to buying yet another gismo that sooner or later will fail, and paying through the nose for every book hired out.
Most adults probably don't visit their local library because a. their attention span equals the time between TV advertisements, b. they can't be bothered to get out of their chairs if the remote control is within reach, and c. their sphere of awareness has been limited to whatever the brainwashing media feeds them with. E-books for them would be ideal.
Comment number 75.At 15:55 28th Jan 2011, Tio Terry wrote:
Given up on paperbacks? No, not yet, not everthing I like to read is available as an eBook at the moment, especially the technical and more specialised stuff. But I do notice a lot more people using readers on my daily commute, I think Kindle's must have been a popular christmas present!
Comment number 76.At 15:59 28th Jan 2011, Norman Brooke wrote:
For me nothing beats a good book and I have a significant collection at home, many unread! The brutal assault on our libraries by this evil government as they protect the thieving Rich is an attack on education. Many older people dont forget look forward to spending time in the libraries and taking out books so shame on this vile PM for his wicked anti social policies.
Libraries closing....so this is mending the 'broken society' is it.
Thank heaven for charity shops or is Cameron seeking to close them next?
Comment number 77.At 16:00 28th Jan 2011, C Spybey wrote:
I love to read and I am not a convert to downloads as yet. Call me traditional - I still love the smell of the pages, the turning, the touch of paper and also writing down my thoughts as I read. The libraries near me are quite hopeless as the books are not interesting nor varied. it doesnt satisfy my desire at all. My son's books are possibly more than the library and more varied!
Comment number 78.At 16:00 28th Jan 2011, mofro wrote:
#15. At 2:26pm on 28 Jan 2011, Dr Llareggub wrote:
I love to read in the bath. Plug in my lap top and read until I fall asleep. No need to worry about a paperback getting wet.
No worries about the laptop falling in the water and getting wet then! Surely a new paperback book is cheaper than a new laptop.
Comment number 79.At 16:01 28th Jan 2011, Guess Who Dunnit wrote:
A proper book is the past, present and future. They have been loved for centuries and will continue to be.
At least if you sccidently spill your drink on it, you won't get error messages!
Comment number 80.At 16:03 28th Jan 2011, Enny2012 wrote:
Nothing is permanent. Our forefathers used to write and read on stones, animal skins, etc. If we should now reject the papers for electronics we have contributed to civilization.
Comment number 81.At 16:06 28th Jan 2011, Profcynic wrote:
The demise of printed media has been predicted regularly for the last century or so. First radio, then TV and now e-books. Print has been around for 400 years or so; it isn't going to go away tomorrow. It's a generally practical way of conveying information. You can make notes on it, underline key passages or record your opinion at the specific point where it applies. And it will still be there in 10 or 20 years or more time. Cyberspace does not preserve books and materials for future generations. In certain academic circles there is concern that students' referenced papers cannot be found because they were taken straight from an internet source that is now no longer accessible - so we lose the information upon which some work was done, and with it our ability to critically evaluate such work.
There is also a certain irony in that Amazon.com, probably the best known internet company, made its mark by selling 'obselete' print technology, ie books.
Comment number 82.At 16:06 28th Jan 2011, zzgrark wrote:
I burn through loads of books at a rate of knots.
I use the local libraries to the hilt in order to get value for my council tax.
Any books I buy (invariably p/backs) will be kept around long enough to read the once and then if I think I might read it again I keep it a little longer, but invariably they are kept in good nick as they will all end up sold on eBay or Amazon sooner or later.
Comment number 83.At 16:10 28th Jan 2011, chiptheduck wrote:
It is a fair bet that the figures for last quarter are distorted and paperbacks will reign supreme again, unless the publishers inhibit a recovery because virtual books are cheaper to produce.
The Kindle was the Xmas gadget of 2010 so I would expect a huge upsurge in purchases of online books in November/December as a supplement to Xmas presents.
Comment number 84.At 16:13 28th Jan 2011, mofro wrote:
#73. At 3:52pm on 28 Jan 2011, Profcynic wrote:
You can't whap cockroaches with a kindle.
You could do, but it wouldn't do it much good, and especially annoying if you had just got to the exciting part of your e-book!
Comment number 85.At 16:16 28th Jan 2011, RubbishGirl wrote:
73. At 3:52pm on 28 Jan 2011, Profcynic wrote:
You can't whap cockroaches with a kindle.
Or prop up a wonky table :)
Comment number 86.At 16:17 28th Jan 2011, Andy wrote:
How often do you have to charge-up a real book? I suspect this is all a load of puff by the e-book industry.
Comment number 87.At 16:19 28th Jan 2011, Lesley Manning wrote:
I did not think i would become a fan of e-readers. However I bought a Kindle and I just love it. I will still buy paper books ie cook books and probably some hard backs. But E-readers are definitely the way forward, and the e-ink is amazing and I love that I can go on to the wi-fi and download a book there and then! Battery life is excellent - to those who are sceptical - give it a go!
Comment number 88.At 16:22 28th Jan 2011, Paul wrote:
I recently got a Kindle, and I like it. While I still get the occasional book in paper form, most are downloads.
The advantages, for me, are:
- easy to buy stuff - just click and it's there (and often cheaper)
- no books!
- easy to carry around
- on holiday, you can take loads of books (or buy out there) without filling up your luggage
I find it just as easy to read as a paper book (much better than a phone or laptop), and I'm not fighting to keep the pages open without bending the spine.
Pretty much the only significant disadvantage I've found is that you probably shouldn't read it in the bath...
I know a lot of people like the 'feel' of a real book, but the problem is that they take up space. Round here, you can't give paperbacks away to charity shops, they've just got too many. They'll take hardbacks, but that's it. So, you end up storing them, or binning them.
We have a room half-full of bookcases, plus a loft full of boxes of books, it was getting to the stage where we didn't want to buy books because we had nowhere to put them...
We've tried things like ReadItSwapIt (but probably just get one or two swaps a year) and BookCrossing (which often ends up just being like littering, because the books rarely get taken) and they don't work well enough. Selling them on eBay doesn't work either because the postage costs too much unless it's a rare book, so it doesn't even cover the listing fees of all the ones that don't sell.
Comment number 89.At 16:25 28th Jan 2011, Paul wrote:
74. At 3:54pm on 28 Jan 2011, milvusvestal wrote:
Most adults probably don't visit their local library because a. their attention span equals the time between TV advertisements, b. they can't be bothered to get out of their chairs if the remote control is within reach, and c. their sphere of awareness has been limited to whatever the brainwashing media feeds them with. E-books for them would be ideal."
A bit unfair. I don't visit a library because the one near here is open from 10am to 3pm Monday to Friday, and closes at lunchtime. So, given that I still have to work, there's not much chance to get to it...
Comment number 90.At 16:26 28th Jan 2011, Paul wrote:
78. At 4:00pm on 28 Jan 2011, mofro wrote:
#15. At 2:26pm on 28 Jan 2011, Dr Llareggub wrote:
I love to read in the bath. Plug in my lap top and read until I fall asleep. No need to worry about a paperback getting wet.
No worries about the laptop falling in the water and getting wet then! Surely a new paperback book is cheaper than a new laptop."
Sarcasm detector broken today then?
Comment number 91.At 16:26 28th Jan 2011, undyingcincinnatus wrote:
I bought my partner a kindle for Xmas.
I have to admit that I was very skeptical. But I bought a very nice leather case with it so it opens and, at least on the outside, feels and looks like a book, and I have been very surprised. She has used it for at least a few hours nearly every day since she bought it and needed to recharge it for the first time this week. There are hundreds of free books available for it, including ones you would have to pay huge amounts for in paper (complete works, very old classics)
What has surprised me most has been the screen. As many other commenters have said, they do not want more glare and pixels after working at a computer all day. But the screen really is excellent; there is no glare and unless you look at it rather than reading it, it honestly feels like reading from paper.
Will it replace paper books? Probably not, at least for some time. But in the same way I both buy CDs and download MP3s depending on what I want (to relax with an album or make a playlist of singles to drive to), e-books have a very secure place in the future.
Doubly so since e-books do what e-music does not: charge a reasonable price considering the saved production cost. Brand new books are no more than £4. I believe this will serve to prevent a lot of piracy; I know that many people pirate music simply out of some weird sense of honour: electronic music should never be more expensive than hard copies!
Authors will eventually begin releasing the books themselves cutting out all of the traditional 'middle men' who used to be so essential for actually getting published; good riddance! Hopefully music will follow shortly after! This means lower costs to the fans, more money for the artists, and less money for those profiting from others' talent!
Comment number 92.At 16:29 28th Jan 2011, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn wrote:
Have you turned your back on the paperback?
Comment number 93.At 16:34 28th Jan 2011, 1L19 wrote:
Absolutely not, just reading Deakin - Wildwood, a journey through trees, excellent. Just finished Leviathan - Philip Hoare, excellent, fiction Sunset Park by Paul Auster. I love reading books, far better than a screen.
Comment number 94.At 16:34 28th Jan 2011, Magi Tatcher wrote:
Drat! I was planning to set up a book manufacturing plant as I heard there were some unwanted forests going cheap in the UK. I don't think I will bother now.
Comment number 95.At 16:35 28th Jan 2011, sd wrote:
I have 1000's of paperbacks, I hate techno gadgets. I've never seen a Kindle, but I THINK I'm right in saying you can enlarge the font and also switch them onto voice mode to read aloud to you. Is this correct? If it is, it makes them very attractive for old people, and this is dangerous. Because kids love gadgets and if grannies need them too, it truly is the death knell for the paperback book. It remains to be seen how all this will affect publishing and new authors.
Comment number 96.At 16:42 28th Jan 2011, JohnH wrote:
12. At 2:23pm on 28 Jan 2011, RubbishGirl wrote:
I'll probably get a kindle (or simillar) eventually, for travelling, but it'll never beat the feel of a real book in my hands
I was given a Kindle for Xmas, out of the blue (never heard of it before).
Wonderful, I can read this a lot better than any book. If I put it down, or turn it off I go straight back to my page when I re-open it. Easier to hold, turn pages back and forth.
Downloading new books is so easy. My one complaint is that the majority of books for sale; 1/2 Million, are not all best sellers, a lot at the cheap end are just to fill the catalouge.
But I'm convinced that this is the future, my kindle will even read the book to me if I want, which I have passed to all the mothers of young kids who are just learning to read.
Comment number 97.At 16:43 28th Jan 2011, Alan M Bush wrote:
I enjoy reading real books, paperback and hardback, I have not bought a kindle and for so long as books are published never will. The thought of carrying around a tablet for reading material is akin to the Egytians reading clay tablets, save that you only need one! A book will vary in size, texture, cover, and weight all part of the enjoyment of reading. A well stocked library of books is aesthetically comfortable. If I want quick facts or to study a point I will use my PC/Laptop, but in bed on the beach,or in the lounge my books are supreme!
Comment number 98.At 16:46 28th Jan 2011, suecha1 wrote:
I have an e- reader a Sony. I love it. No bookmarks for my grandchildren to pull out! I have problems with my hands and find turning conventional pages hard to turn so the reader is great. I download from a book store (not Amazon, if you haven't got a Kindle they are useless) If I can't get a book I want to read in my format I buy a paperback.
Comment number 99.At 16:53 28th Jan 2011, smilingparrotfan wrote:
Have I turned my back on paperbacks? No, no no. I've had a passionate love affair with books since I was a little girl. A lot of moons ago now. I've run out of shelves so have them stacked on the floor all over my flat. I just have to rummage through books; either new, in second hand or charity shops. The smell of new books is just so romantic. I've shed some friends over the years but the books have always been there. I don't want to look at yet another screen. I want to handle my book and turn the pages. There are tears in my eyes as I write and I must control my emotions..........
Comment number 100.At 16:54 28th Jan 2011, DCHeretic wrote:
I still prefer hard copies of books. I enjoy the feel of a book in my hands and I view books as wonderful decorative items. Few things in a home impress me more than bookshelves filled with books. I never give away the books that I read and I am proud of my home library.


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Child: "Let me get this straight", quipped a fourth grader with his arms crossed over a not-so clean t-shirt. "God was Jesus' baby-daddy and this Joseph was his stepdad, right."
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Partner Technical Support
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