What is a book? Post #2

A book is a place where your imagination can run free. A book allows you to imagine things that can’t happen in real life. When you are reading a book you are a whole new person. You can think of yourself as an astronaut or a princess, it doesn’t matter. I agree with Joe Meno that “ a book is actually a place, a place where we, as readers, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word into image, connecting these images to memories, dreams and larger ideas.” Books are like art. They allow to seeing something and interpret it in your own way. Without books we wouldn’t be able to imagine life through another person’s eyes like we can do with books. I disagree with Victor LaValle’s idea that books are “No more divine than a toaster.” Books are something magical. I know a lot of people say that E-Readers are way better because it less to carry but that ruins the magic of books. Books were made for people to carry. Also when you read off and E-reader, you lose the smell of books. Books have that musty smell to them that makes you wonder where they came from. It just adds to the mystery of books. E-Readers smell like they came straight from a factory.  I think that if you don’t read a book on paperback or hardback, you shouldn’t read books at all. I’m the kind of person that likes to go along with tradition or reading books made out of paper.