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At the Rialto
Aug. 23rd, 2008 11:55 amNostalgia ain't what it used to be. Nor was it ever.
I have a smallish number of books on tape - compact cassette that is. I used to listen to them in the car - normal reading and driving being somewhat incompatible for me. But my current vehicle does not have a cassette player and I even took the cassette deck off my sound system to make way for something more useful. At least a few of the tapes are worth another listen or two, so I thought a bit of format shift for them might be in order, what with replacements not being available anywhere. Even the production companies don't exist any more.
People hold nostalgic feeling for various older technologies - vinyl records, steam trains etc. I can't help thinking that the compact cassette is not going to be one of those technologies. You might understand how I arrived at that conclusion if you could see me fishing the tangled mess of ruined tape out of the mechanism of my cassette player.
I have a smallish number of books on tape - compact cassette that is. I used to listen to them in the car - normal reading and driving being somewhat incompatible for me. But my current vehicle does not have a cassette player and I even took the cassette deck off my sound system to make way for something more useful. At least a few of the tapes are worth another listen or two, so I thought a bit of format shift for them might be in order, what with replacements not being available anywhere. Even the production companies don't exist any more.
People hold nostalgic feeling for various older technologies - vinyl records, steam trains etc. I can't help thinking that the compact cassette is not going to be one of those technologies. You might understand how I arrived at that conclusion if you could see me fishing the tangled mess of ruined tape out of the mechanism of my cassette player.