I've started borrowing library books on my Kindle (the Kindle I swore I'd never own and never love but I do own and I do love). The last two books I borrowed are still on my Kindle despite having long since reached the end of the loan periods. I got the usual notices via email when the loan periods had ended, my Amazon Kindle account tells me that the loans have expired, but there they sit, on my Kindle and ready to be read over and over and over.
I Googled around to see if this is common and yes, it is. Most people seem to think that I'm not holding up the line for future readers by keeping the books on my device. But it does seem strange, and I feel a little like I'm cheating by not removing the books. But I'm going to keep them there to see how long this goes on.
We live in an odd world these days. Or maybe it just seems odd to someone my age who has witnessed all these changes in communications. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, my first office job seemed so high-tech at the time because I used a fancy electric typewriter, and now I can see into some Chinese person's bedroom just by going to Google Earth. Will my kids be able to say, when they're my age, that they've seen such dramatic changes? Hard to believe.
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