Post 2: What is a Book

A book is...

 a gateway, leading you to new ideas and a different way of thinking. Whether on a piece of paper or a digital device, the message of the story is all that matters. A book is not a sacred way of getting a story told, even if a historian later on in life found a new work on a kindle, it would still be praised as what it is, an adventure for your mind. It just has to get you thinking about the world around you in a way that actually impacts you in real life. A book is like a lighter, it sparks something in you that leads to other things igniting in your mind, changing you for the better. The words are all that I think of when I think of a book, I don’t think a book is good if it’s hard cover, paperback, or e-reader, I just remember the words and ideas that the book brings up. Maybe sometimes the feel of turning the pages rather than clicking a button is more satisfying and makes it feel more authentic, it makes you think of the author and what situation he could be in at this moment, if it was written in the 1800s or early 1900s, you can imagine the author writing on scrap paper ripped out of his note book flipping page after page looking at his masterpiece, trying to find a way to make it better. You can’t really feel that when your sliding your finger on a smooth surface, magically teleporting the old text out of the way, to reveal the new set, informing you on what comes next in this adventure. This makes it a totally different era, we feel like we are researching an ancient artifact, written in a different time, but this doesn’t matter, a book to me, is just information ready to be engraved in someone’s mind.