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.
