Recently I have acquired a new device on which to read books. This has the advantage of being able to ease my old eyes with a larger font and a reverse polarity.
I was happily cruising along in the plot of a fine new book, when a little sentence pops up at the top of the page.
It proclaimed that I deserved congratulations for reading a second day in a row.
What? there are book reading trackers now?
It is like saying “Good , you are into reading and for twice in a row! Good little girl.”
Well Mr. AI programmer, for your information, I have been reading every day for the last 75 YEARS!
I don’t care if it was an instruction manual, canned food labels or War and Peace, I was reading.
I read newspapers, magazines, comic books by the train car load, and of course books. We had a free library but no television, so nobody kept track of my habits, reading viewing or listening to the old fashioned radio on the dining room table.
Now if one is not connected by smart phones, social media or e-mailed ads, one is considered out of the loop.
Well, I like my privacy, and something that just pops out of nowhere and evidently cannot be turned off smacks of Big Brother, and I want no part of it.
So I post this blog on social media to protest the loss of privacy in our modern lives.
Go figure.
knightsengirl 