If you think that bookstores and libraries and bookmarks are going out of business, and technology is ultimately going to replace them, you've got another think coming.
This website I saw yesterday makes you realize just how important things related to books (and that means the paper kind) really are. It's called Mirage Bookmark.
I looked at all kinds of amazing bookmarks from many different nations. They were made from paper-thin steel, handmade altered tags, felt, corn leaf, bamboo, linoleum printed transparent plastic foils, and a whole host of other materials. There was even a knitted one. The bookmarks covered a multitude of categories, such as movies, religious, heroes, artists, famous people, etc. I'm sure you get the idea.
This same website shows the most interesting bookstores of the world in a picture gallery. You can see bookstores in places such as an old Dominican church in Holland, one in Paris (probably the most photographed in the world; do you know which one that is?), the Lello (one of the most beautiful) in Portugal, a theater in Buenos Aires, and others in places like New York City and India (now that one was really different!).
But the part of the website I liked best, really best, was seeing pictures of the most interesting libraries of the world, places I know I'll never get to go to and would love to just walk quickly through. There is the library at the University of Utrecht in Holland, the Royal Library Black Diamond in Copenhagen, the Peckham Library in south London, the City Library in Stockholm, and libraries in Canada and New York City, plus many more.
If you get a chance...no, you should take the opportunity...go to www.miragebookmark.ch/ and look at how important bookstores, libraries, and bookmarks are to a multitude of people world-wide.
You'll see there's no way technology will ever replace such wonders of the world.
That means you can plan on coming to the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library for a long time!
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