What is a book?

     A book is a like a good friend. It’s that person you can turn to when your stuck between a rock and a hard place, who knows just how to make you smile, who you can have the time of your life with no matter what you’re doing, whose sentences you can finish, that person whose family is your second family. A book is wise and witty, ambitious and boundless, dynamic and stimulating, a book is enchanting.

     I agree with Meno that there’s something special about books because they force us to interact with the text and imagine the story unlike TV and plays where that is already done for us. As for Sales opinion on an e- reader vs. an actual book, I am torn and unsure. I do love the feeling of picking up a book, cracking open the pages and letting myself slowly slip away into the book. Also the e- readers just seem cold and lifeless to me. But I haven’t used a Kindle or Nook before, so I don’t know if I’m in a position where I can make a fair statement of which I think is better. I do see the e- readers as being quite convenient for travel. With the e-readers you can take an entire library with you wherever you go. And it must be quite nice if you’re reading a big, hefty book because it’s so sleek and condensed. So I think I would want a mix of both. Have my mobile library for when I go places and travel, but still be able to return back home to my library of books lined on the book shelf. And be cable to smell the pages of freshly printed books on bright white paper as well as that old, musty smell from books printed long ago on now yellowing pages with the corners breaking off from too many hands folding the corners down.

     Whether it’s on Nook or in a hardback I think Meno’s words will still ring true. And either way you’re reading the book I believe there are new friendships waiting to blossom as well as old ones we never forget because a book is like a good friend and it’s the personality of our friends that we love, not their outward appearance.