TheIndy

Every year, around the time Halloween is upon us, we start seeing ads about the supposedly amazing, doorbuster deals the upcoming Black Friday offers. After all, Black Friday is only a month away from Halloween, and even though we’ve grown up with the chaos that comes with it, we need to be reminded well in advance. I started noticing a change in the norm of Black Friday a few years ago, however that only seems to escalate every season, as Black Friday is now beginning on Thanksgiving.

As a communications major, I do a fair share of reading. Novel after novel and textbook after textbook, I devour the pages so that I can write five to six page papers for multiple classes. In order to do so, a stack of books lined the corner of my desk, each with bookmarks and penciled-in notes from class lectures. Lugging them around from class after class seemed normal to me because I needed them. What would I do without these textbooks? I never thought to ask myself that until I started reading e-books from a Kindle.