What is a Book?

To me a book is life. I think a book is a person in a castle far away that is timid and shy. Then once you get to noticing it and become friends with him and he turns out to be nice a person. This is like my friend Andrew. There however is nothing special to me about a book for me. It’s like going to a restaurant that is old and eating and then going to a restaurant that is new. Just because they’re different doesn’t mean that I hate or like another one for a special reason. A book to me is like the old-fashioned restaurant, its fine and settles want I want; same with the newer restaurant and an IPod. However the only thing I can’t read on is an IPad because it is too big and bulky.

 

I do feel like many of the authors that books won’t die within the next century but if we develop a technology that is better than a book and can feel like a book without being one then maybe. I don’t agree with some of the authors with having to physically carry a book to read because why do I need to turn pages? There are inconveniences on both sides like a book you have to lug around and not be able to place in a pocket. The book is also bigger and can tear easier. The problems with the electronic are they do have battery lives and can have some technological problems. With that being said I only really agree with the first one because I don’t prefer either. I like how he states that the book is not the thing you fall in love with but what is says. I don’t care how it comes but as long as I can read it. I don’t like how people can say stuff like writing in the margins because some devices like IPhones can mark words and write comments like notes. So that point is mute now. Other comments people say is that books just “feel” right and I don’t know how to respond to that because I guess you can’t feel that with an IPod so I guess that is the only reason not to prefer technology.

 

One of the things I learned early was not to judge a book by its cover, and I feel like IPods and Kindles are receiving a lot of that. It doesn’t matter what it looks or feels like as long as you read the journey that it contains and the life you get to live. I wouldn’t stop playing soccer because I didn’t like the “feel” of the ball or because it looks weird. People should read books no matter the form and I don’t agree with how people are only reading with tech. or books because it’s pointless. Do you discriminate against books or technology?