Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2013-01-10 15:10
David Spiegelthal wrote,
>Enjoy your tablet. When it drops on the floor during the concert and stops working, I'll continue playing my sheet music while you panic.
>
Yes. My husband is a bookbinder. He specializes in restoring and repairing antique books. Now and then he demonstrates book conservation to local school children, when they're around 11-12 years old. He acknowledges that books have become old-fashioned technology, "...but they do have some advantages."
He picks up a hardback book, lifts it high in the air, puts a devilish smirk on his face and drops the book on the floor. (I'll admit he cheats a little bit, by dropping the bookso it lands flat on one cover, not on a corner, since hitting a hard floor on a corner of the book can separate the spine.) He picks up the book, looks it over, opens it, shrugs and says, "Oh, well. No harm done."
Then he picks up his laptop computer, lifts it high over his head with the same devilish smirk, and then lowers his arm suddenly as if he's dropping the computer. He doesn't really drop it, of course, but invariably the kids all gasp and some of them scream! Point made.
Lelia
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