Big Book Blog by, Alex Testerman
What is a book?
A book is a world. It is an entire planet
of all new ideas and people in the palm of your hand, each page unleashing
something new into your mind that can ultimately change how you perceive
things in your day to day life. Having the paper world in your hand adds extra
excitement to the novel before you even open to the first page, the mystery of
the novel and the only knowledge you have is the cover that you can look at
over and over again to try and see how it incorporates to the novels story.
As stated by Tom Piazza in his
self-interview when asked about ebooks he says “They are strictly vehicles; you
pick them us to step through them into some consensus reality.” And I couldn’t
agree more. An ebook doesn’t have the same tender feel and physical touch a
book has. A book shows how much work an author put into it because you can see
its size and really see all that they put into it. With the ebook you get a
soulless machine that doesn’t give you the picture of all the hard work the
author puts into their novels.
A book can be a physical thing in your
hands where you can feel the paper between your fingers or bright text lit upon
a ebook screen, either way it is still a story that an author put time and effort
into to get it out to readers like us. Even though I said before that I prefer
paper books rather than ebooks, a novel that is on an ebook is still the same
story that you would read in a paper book, just electronic. I fear eventually
that paper books will not be made anymore and ebooks will be the supplier for
books, but you have to go with the times and adapt with the ever changing
society.
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