I wrote a blog not long ago about how my daughter at two years of age received her first library card.
A couple of decades later she has a room full of books. Many of them I gave to her when I moved from St. Louis to Crawford County, Missouri.
She still is in the modern age and uses her computer for reading, but she’d rather have a book.
Although my son has almost every type of electronic device known for communication, he still has books for his three sons to read. The cherry wood bookcase has books so packed in that if he buys anymore, I’ll have to make another bookcase.
As for myself, I have no problem with the electronic devices. People who do use them buy my book (I hope). I just have a problem reading from them.
A book has a certain feel. A new book has a smell that differs from a used book to one that is very old.
Where I like turning pages, others like moving a finger. I can take a book to my cabin to read in the evening and not worry about batteries.
Last evening at the local grocery story, I saw a friend, Carol. Her mother is up in years and has been ill lately. Carol was with her mother while the doctors conducted testing.
While Carol waited with her mother between tests, she took out her Kindle and started reading. Carol was asked, by her mother, what she was doing.
She explained it was something she could use to read a book. Carol took the Kindle to her mother, demonstrating how it worked.
Smiling a most becoming smile, she asked Carol, “What will they think of next?”
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I like my Kindle for speed and convenience, but it never compares to being able to riffle through the pages of a book 🙂
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So true…there is just something magic with turning the real pages! 🙂
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Nothing beats the feel of a real old-fashioned book is how I feel as well.
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It is a special feeling that is hard to describe! Pat
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Have you noticed the cheap paper a lot of trade paperbacks are printed on. Five years old and they’re yellowed and badly discolored. They will not last like the old books of last century.
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It is truly a shame! Something as valuable as the words of a culture cheapened in the guise of mass production… You’re right…the paper of past generations lives on! They also were written by hand in beautiful cursive/calligraphy/hieroglyphics, which is also becoming a lost art. Humans will evolve through the ages with really big thumbs because of texting 🙂
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😀 …and bent necks.
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So true!! And arthritis…carpel tunnel syndrome…
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I need the feel of a book in my hands, your description is perfect – it feel unnatural to read from a Kindle. My Godmother, age 83, reads books from her Kindle and adjusted like a twenty-something – who knew?
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All people are different with their abilities with electronic media. As nice as Kindles can be, nothing replaces a paper book…for me. Pat
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🙂
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Thanks for your great support of the blog Patrick and of course Sandy and here is an award or you can opt for the new Smorgasbord wine (only virtual at the moment I am afraid) https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/the-creative-blogger-award-so-many-great-blogs-so-little-space/
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I am honored to receive the reward, Sally, and I’ll drink a toast of virtual wine to you! Here’s to good health and good friends 🙂 Pat & Sandy 🙂
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Great Pat and hope you enjoy..hugs
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🙂 Am honored! Thanks Sally!! Reblogging today 🙂
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I love the feel and smell of a book. We have many book cases filled with books
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Me too, Ch’kara! They are just treasures, aren’t they? I will go back and read them again too 🙂 Have a great night!
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Great post! As much as I use and love my kindle, there is nothing like the pleasure found in the pages of a book. Needless to say, our many bookshelves are over flowing. HAPPY READING! 🙂
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Hi Bette!
I miss bookstores where people browse through old and new books. The look of happiness on their faces when they find that one book can’t compare with that same feeling when they find it on a Kindle. Thanks! Pat
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You are right, even though I read a lot on my pc for kindle doing reviews, nothing feels like a book in my hand every once in a while I have to grab one to get that old familiar feel. I love books.
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There’s nothing like turning pages by hand and placing your bookmark in a place to come back to. Thanks for visiting! Pat
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I agree, I read on devices and online, but there’s still nothing like holding a book, it’s as though you have a bit of the story in your hand. Thank you. 🙂
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When you are holding the book, you become so much more a part of the story than on a Kindle. It’s almost as though the book itself actually draws you into the pages of the story. Thanks! Pat
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I love holding a book in my hands and turning the physical pages. I also love my Kindle because it is so convenient. I use them both equally. 🙂
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Each seems to have it’s own good qualities! Thanks! Pat
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There’s nothing like the feel of a finger slipping under the next page ready to turn it once you finish the current one and the smell as you open the cover on an older book.I’m reassured by the weight of a real book in my hands, a kindle won’t damage a burglar when thrown.
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So true, David!! A huge book to the side of the head is a great detriment to the burglar (however, a 9mm firearm is so much easier on the bookbinding)!! Even though the Kindle appears to turn the pages…and appears to open…it is just not the same feeling of anticipation as when you physically turn to the next part of the story! Thanks alot! Pat
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I will and do read on any device going… given the slightest opportunity 🙂 But I’m with you.. for choice, give me a book. Though quite how I’ll get them into the new place I don’t know… 🙂
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Hi Sue!
If I was in England I would build you library shelves out of walnut 🙂 Books are such a treasured possession, aren’t they? Hope your move goes smoothly!! Thanks for stopping by! Pat
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If you were here, Patrick, I would llove that… though I have always had a hankering for cedar wood shelves for their perfume 🙂
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Cedar it is then 🙂
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Ooooh 🙂
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🙂
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If you were here, Patrick, I would love that… though I have always had a hankering for cedar wood shelves for their perfume 🙂
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There is something about a book. I read a lot on the Kindle anymore. My bookshelves are overflowing, as is my Kindle stack. There are some books that I must have in print, I save my precious shelf space for those.
I have one shelf designated for the autographed books of my author friends. And a small space I keep clear, just in case I ever manage to finish a story, because when I do, I want to smell the paper and ink. Feel the cover, because that will make it real.
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You don’t know how true that is!! To open up your book and smell the paper and the fresh ink. Don’t ever give up writing that book! It WILL happen!! 🙂 Take care, Pat
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