A book is a journey. It takes you through these winding paths, when you think you know where it’s going, BOOM, there is a sudden turn going in a different way than you thought. I agree with most of the writers opinions except for Tom Piazza. I agree with him that all the electronic devices are very alike, but reading on there does not make a book any less a book. There is something more special about reading an actually book, than on a devices.
Books: I think for everyone a book can mean different things. Some love books, while others will only touch them when had too. It depends on the person. To me, books are that one special place where I can be completely alone with my thoughts and imagination. No one bothers me when I’m reading. It’s almost like there just a magical spell casted over me that block everyone and everything out. It is just me and the characters having are own adventures.
e-books vs. books: That’s the debate that is hard to pick a side. In the end they are both books that get to the reader and shouldn’t we just be happy that a book is selling. To me books are a little more special to me than a e-reader, though I have never read on one of them. Though books seem to be slowly dying they won’t be gone. We will save them. They mean so much to our history that we would have to keep them, but we need the e-readers to move more towards the future. We have to keep changing ourselves to move forward, but we hold on to our past as we move forward. Books won’t be forgotten.
Hopefully you're right that books won't be forgotten. So you feel like you can still enter into the world of the story regardless of how you're reading it?
ReplyDeleteI love this first line you used, "A book is a journey. It takes you through these winding paths, when you think you know where it’s going, BOOM, there is a sudden turn going in a different way than you thought". I compleatly agree with it and this is one things that pulls me into reading more. It's a twisting story that entertains you and can pull you in some many different twists and turns and who knows where it could end up by the end. In my opinion I prefer books to ebooks just because I believe that we should read the book as the author intended for us to read it, which was the written word on paper.
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