A Little Slice of History

When iPad users plugged in last Saturday and began to surf Apple’s new iBookstore one of the books on their virtual shelf was Standing in the Fire. I’m told that it looks great on the iBooks e-reader: smooth page turning and crisp screen delivery with adjustable font, brightness indication, built-in dictionary, bookmarking, and hyperlinks from the table of contents.

One day in the not too distant future I’ll be talking with the children in my life about having written one of the first books to become an Apple iBook and they’ll ask, “Was there ever any other kind of book?” And in that moment I will feel very old.