As life moves for­ward, we lose some things.

When I was a kid, my fam­ily had ency­clo­pe­dias. I used to enjoy sit­ting down and read­ing them. Or skim­ming them to find inter­est­ing arti­cles. Hours and hours of my child­hood were spent learn­ing that way.

Today, kids have Wikipedia and Google. Both offer huge advan­tages over ency­clo­pe­dias. But some things are lost. I won­der how many kids spend hours comb­ing Wikipedia for inter­est­ing articles.

I have a Kin­dle, and I love it. But it’s far from perfect.

Recently, I learned of a high school not far away that is “paper­less.” No books, except eBooks. Again, some good things come with that — but some things are lost.