The "Placed by the Gideons" Story

It was an ordinary day. Just loaded another James Patterson novel in the library of my Kindle. I say "my" Kindle because I'm the one that uses it. I bought it for my wife, Carol, as a Christmas gift two years ago, but find that she would rather hold a paperback novel in her hands than the really neat electronic device I got for her. So, I have claimed it for myself. Kind of like being an Indian-giver, if I'm allowed to say that. Nothing bad meant against the Indians on my part, but why did that term ever surface. I never knew an Indian who took something back from me, then again I never knew an Indian. Anyway, I love the Kindle, even the girlie red cover. There are still half a dozen books that Carol loaded into the Kindle that she needs to read, but she keeps buying new paperbacks and reading paperbacks that her friend Just Sue has given to her. Couple of boxes full of paperbacks line the wall in my office. Me, after I read a book, I will delete it from the Kindle library, so I don't read it again. I have done that before, re-reading the same book a year or so after reading it the first time and thinking it is one I never read. Carol claims that I only need about a dozen books in the Kindle and just re-read them forever, since I don't remember what I read after a few months. Would save money! I have a friend that told me that the Hotel Indigo in England now has loaded the Bible onto Kindles and has placed them in drawers in all their 148 rooms. Neat idea! Now you can't complain that the

printing is too small, since the Kindle can enlarge the type to about an inch in height. Their guests can read the Bible or download free books from the 1,500 title lending library they have. After you check-out they will delete anything you may have downloaded, much like I do. And, they remind their patrons that they should remember the 8th commandment and if they don't, they will receive a replacement charge added onto their bill. Pretty neat idea if you ask me. Now if only all the resorts in the Caribbean would do the same thing, it would make my suitcase about a pound lighter. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.