Old-school Reader Gifts

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

"It's your Grandpa's version of keeping up with technology...reading the papers online."

'Oh darling, it is not an ibook, it is only a book.'

'Lost your kindle in the cab? Try my outdated destined-for-extinction, low-priced print edition.'

'I found the audiobooks, computer access points, DVDs, conference rooms and community focus points...could you tell me where the books are?'

"I'm cutting articles out of the newspaper while we still can."

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

'I feel useless: My Master has cancelled his newspaper subscription and reads his news online now...'

"He loves reading, hates digital technology, and cares for the planet, so has decided to go paperless."

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"

Mobile Phone Donation

Gen-Next Library

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

"Have you ever thought about getting an e-reader?"

"So dad, you do know all that stuff happened yesterday, right?"

Try that with a Kindle

"Actually, I'm sitting here reading a book—just to see if I can still do it."

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

This is a 'text book' it's a bit like a website but printed on paper.

'When I asked you to do research for your assignment, I meant the library not on Google!'

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

Two Generations of Readers

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

'My daughter says I'm hopelessly outdated...'

"I believe it was called 'cursive'."

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

'Bront?saurus.'

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

Print Suicide

Jane Austen

Nanki Poo

"'CPD'...stuff and nonsense, the old ways are fine for me, now pass me a hammer. I need to put this patient out!"

"Boy, these are really overdue!"

A new meaning in the Roman

Books*. *Batteries not included.