a book is a book is a book
So, okay, everyone knows I’m a Reader. I devour books and spit them back out. I own entirely too many books and I’m always collecting more because, let’s face it, READING IS GOOD.
That being said, there’s a break in my brain right now.
E-books and regular books.
I know that regular books kill forests and that kind of bugs me, but at the same time, I love the feeling of a book in my hands. I like knowing that I can just put a bookmark in when my hands/wrists fall asleep and it will still be there when I come back to it. I love the smell of the ink on the paper, the weight and substance of the book in my hands. It’s something I’ve become accustomed to and expect.
E-books, while more convenient being in the digital platform (no killing of trees for paper, no fading of ink due to the book sitting in the sun, and so on), just… don’t feel right. They’re more awkward for me, because I read so quickly, and sometimes, the down arrow on my computers can’t keep up. They also don’t have that comfort factor that I associate with physically substantive books (the smell, the physicality, etc.), and they’re just as expensive as going out, killing a few trees, and having a real book.
So I’m torn.
Can we leave it at ‘a book is a book is a book’?