Modern Literate Gifts

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Audio Books

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

'E-books?'

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'

'When they came up with a 'do your homework' app, then I'll know technology can really make life better.'

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as written and as it would have been written if David Hume had invested in a word processor,

Sensitivity Reader's Digest

Large print e-book.

Library

"Ah, to be young and foolish again."

'Remind me to never again ask him what he learned in school.'

"I'll have to get someone younger to look at your résumé. I'm not fluent in emoji."

Child lifting alphabet blocks.

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

'Would it make a difference if I told you I was listening to book on audio?'

'Well, so my grades are A,B,C,D... at least I'm learning my alphabet.'

Book Worm

'Where's the mouse for this thing?'

Good writing is good thinking

Books and Phones

Book

Cat going to litter box with newspaper to read.

Maid revealing that the judge uses a dictionary when writing

What passes today for 'nose in a book'.

Book computer

'The students in my contemporary literature class are quoting from deejay Baby Puff Dragon. I have no idea what they're talking about.'

'Pete plays truant, but keeps up with his lessons!'

Modern Studying

'Well how do you spell it then?'