A book is a teacher. No, not that kind where you sit in your chair and listen to them drone on for hours and hours about something you could care less about in monotone, but the best kind. The teacher that helps you learn life skills, such as humor, humility, community, romance, friendship, and one of the most helpful, violence! –Just kidding. The most important is imagination and originality, just like music. So technically, books are my music, music is my life.
Out of the quotes given, the one that stands out to me the most was written by Victor LaValle, entitled ‘Scribble.’ And the reason it stands out to me is because I completely and totally disagree with it. Why? Well books are more than a toaster, Mr. LaValle. They are more than just the crazy brainchild thrown onto a bunch of pages. They are more than just stone tablets. A paper book is a meaningful object, worth so much more in personal terms, and is special. Not just the words, but the feeling of picking up a new book at Borders, Barnes and Noble, Half Price books, wherever. You don’t get that feeling with an electronic book.
Q- So, Which do you like better? Electronic books or paper books?
A- Call me old fashioned, but I like paper books. I like knowing exactly how far I am in the book, just by looking at the top of the book. As well as this, what would happen to publishers? Bookstores? Libraries? All of the employees of these places? They’d all disappear. Plus you don’t have to worry about a paper book breaking into millions of little tiny pieces if you drop it. Paper books don’t have batteries, so they can’t run out if you forget to charge them, and no technological malfunctions, and in our current society we know how often that can happen. Overall, there are just so many problems with e-readers and things of that nature. And think about it—if books are teachers, would you want an e-teacher? Wouldn’t that be a robot? Things to think about!
A- Call me old fashioned, but I like paper books. I like knowing exactly how far I am in the book, just by looking at the top of the book. As well as this, what would happen to publishers? Bookstores? Libraries? All of the employees of these places? They’d all disappear. Plus you don’t have to worry about a paper book breaking into millions of little tiny pieces if you drop it. Paper books don’t have batteries, so they can’t run out if you forget to charge them, and no technological malfunctions, and in our current society we know how often that can happen. Overall, there are just so many problems with e-readers and things of that nature. And think about it—if books are teachers, would you want an e-teacher? Wouldn’t that be a robot? Things to think about!
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