I know you are all readers out there. This time of year when you are in a lot is a great time to settle down with a good book. Are you a buyer? Or a borrower? Or a reader on a device?
I’ve tried reading on my ipad. I can do it but don’t prefer it at all. I still like to hold a book in my hands, put a bookmark in it when I have to lay it down and see how far I’ve come and how much more I have to go. There is something about that I love. I’m so afraid that books will be eliminated in the near future. Burning old books may not just be the thing of Fahrenheit 451. (I also have a fear that once everything is digital it will be easy for the powers that be to rewrite history a la Big Brother in 1984. )
So I am doing my part to keep the libraries in business. I love my library trips where I can walk up and down the aisles and randomly choose a book that might interest me. Or another book by a favorite author. Or a self help (Organizing, anyone?) I might get on a subject and read all I can about it. Or be in the mood for a thriller. Eclectic reading is the best. How about you? What are your tastes in reading?
I feel just as you do! I love the look of them the smell of them and that I can use a bookmark!
ReplyDeleteour library is building a whole new facility so that gives me hope that all is not lost.
and I know of too many people with 'back up' digital files etc. who have lost everything.
the marine gave me his old kindle. and I do enjoy it to a degree. as in I can make the print bigger!
but if I had to choose I will always go with the book! oh. and my reading is totally eclectic!
except I have never touched a toe in horror like Stephen King. did I get his name right? is that even his name?
I don't like to see that kind of thing on screen nor on my bookshelf!
I'm an eclectic reader who loves real books that I can underline and write notes in. I just can't get into reading books online. And I don't think books are going to go extinct. I know young people who love the authenticity of real books! I'm a book buyer, but I haven't been to the library in over a year. I'm great at checking books out, but always seem to be returning them. I just finished a fat book called "Area 51" by Annie Jacobson. Wow! It made me seriously reconsider 20th century American history. Now I'm reading "The Origin" by Dan Brown ~ so much fun! Happy ready, my friend!
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