I read. Of Mice and Men, The Cat in the Hat, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And, obviously, Dewey the Library Cat.
Dewey and I have stuff in common, beside our shared ginger appearance. He was only a few weeks old when, on a bitterly cold night, somebody stuffed him into the return book slot of an Iowa library. When the librarian found him the next morning, he was still alive, and just like that, the library became his new home. Dewey spent 19 years as a library cat, and everybody in town loved him.
I have my own Kindle. When I’m not out campaigning for president, I read. The Lion King. The Pink Panther. Puss in Boots. Inspiring stories about felines who changed the world. And let me tell you something: when I get elected this November, I will with the stroke of a pen make all ebooks a free read in every library. Funded by you, the tax payer.
Why? Libraries are being charged through the nose to have a 2-year lease on an ebook. They pay triple or more the price of a hardcover. They may lend it to only one reader at a time, although with the click of a mouse they could make it available to a hundred people. We have libraries in order to make it easier for people to read, especially folks with a smaller purse. Right now, they are compelled to make it harder.
Gonna be changed. By me, The Call of the Wild.
* VanderBus left home at the age of six weeks and went hunting for a city bus in Maine. He caught the bus. It cost him one eye, but he won a standing ovation from everyone who watched him do it. VanderBus, since then mayor of Bicker Hollow, is running for president of the United States.
