Then: Paper Now: Paperless

Then:  Paper

Now:  Paperless

Way back when we used to have something called a Paper Drive.  Remember those?  We’d save our newspapers for months, stacking them up in the garage until there wasn’t any room for our cars. Then we’d put them in even piles, tie them with rope and haul them off to the school Paper Drive, which at the time was a huge fund raiser.

Ask kids today about a paper drive and they are likely to think it’s something to put in their computer to drive the paper through the printer.  That is, if they are using paper at all.

In my office, we are tying to go paperless.  But of course, that involves reading a huge training manual of, you guessed it, a hundred printed pieces of paper!  So, the paperless office, at least where I work, may be a long way off.

Still, other facets of my life have gone that way.  I rarely write checks anymore.  Instead I use my debit card.  But then of course, by the time I put my debit card back in my wallet, the money for the milk I just bought has already been deducted from my checking account.  So, in some instance (like when I’m trying to float my money) I will write a check.

I pay some bills online, but not all of them.  And it’s been years since I mailed anyone a letter.  In fact, I can’t help but wonder if some day the postage stamp will be something seen only in a museum.

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Yes, I’m willing to go paperless in most facets of my life.   But when it comes to books, magazines and the Sunday paper, I may never change.

I know the Kindle , the Nook and Sony Reader are supposed to be like holding a book, but they are not books.  There are no pages to turn, to run your fingers over.  There is no smell of the freshly printed word.  The wispy sound of a turning page.

I can’t imagine reading a bedtime story to my grandchildren from anything but a book, where they get to touch the beautiful illustrations.  Or falling asleep with a computer on my nose.

And then how about all those quick trips to the bathroom, where I grab a magazine off the floor and read a quick article?  Not an easy thing to do with a wireless reading device.

One of my most favorite things in life is reading: books, magazines, cereal boxes, the Sunday Paper.  Anything where there is no messing around with wireless connections or downloads.  No cyberspace errors.  No “Out of Memory” messages.

Especially Sunday mornings.  I love to curl up on the couch with a good cup of coffee and all those wonderful sections spread around me, filled with articles ranging from world news to the local pet store.  Reading on a computer, just doesn’t seem as cozy.

And when I’m through, I recycle the paper (much the same as we did with our Paper Drives) and pass books and magazines on to friends.

I know we’d be saving trees if we didn’t use so much paper, but lying in bed reading a good book is one of the things that saves my mind and keeps my memory alive.

All I have to do is – pick it up, open the page and read.