As for eyesight, since I’ve always worn glasses (well, since age 5), and given the miracle of super-high-density plastic lenses and effective blended bifocals, I can read 6pt. type without too much difficulty…although, without my glasses, I can barely tell there’s a screen in front of me.

The issue of “what shakes out in the end” doesn’t really seem to have an “end” anymore, merely a swiftly passing popularity.

Personally, the limiting factor is my older eyesight. Using a cellphone for anything more complicated than dialing means finding my reading glasses.

Do you ever feel, though, like this sort of personal choice is not acceptable to some in the library world? I’ve had too many encounters with librarians and bosses-of-librarians who think that if you don’t use an iPad/twitter/toolofchoice at home, then you are a shushing, behind-the-trends lazybones. Gee whiz, I always want to say when this sort of thing comes up, if it’s part of my job, I will be happy to learn/teach/use it at work! Really! I can keep up with the newest trends while paid, too – with my feed reader and some good library blogs, among other resources. But if early-adopter-with-my-own-money-and-time-in-the-guise-of-prof-dev is what you want in an employee, I guess I’m not the librarian for you. Or maybe I could be, but only if you paid me twice as much and hired me a professional chef, bedtime reader, and dresser.

I wish we all felt much more calm about the technologies we use and don’t – and especially felt much more calm about the technologies others use or don’t.