Comments on: Books - the workaround

by: mindspin

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:00:21 +0000

I can’t even commit to a long check-out line at the grocery without first finding a magazine with an article or two I’d like to skim, so I can just imagine the plight of the book-loving traveler caught without reading material in the hinterlands or on a trans-oceanic flight. It wouldn’t do.

by: DrHGuy

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:51:43 +0000

As a fellow sufferer from abibliophobia, I sympathize. I have handled vacation snafus such as missed flights, hotel reservations made months in advance and confirmed the day before arrival that dissipated when I appeared at the reception desk, and acute illnesses in third world countries with some degree of grace and competence. Polishing off all the books and magazines I had packed on day four of a six day trip to the hinterlands in Mexico, however, was catastrophic. My wife and I regained our equilibrium from our state of panic only when we finally discovered a curio shop with a five day old Las Angeles Times for which we gladly forked over eight dollars.

by: Migs

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:01:53 +0000

If tearing up pages is what it takes to defy these new security measures, then let’s all do so. How can one endure hours upon hours of flight with only the “To all passengers: steps in case of emergency” manual to read? Cheers!