What Is a Book?

To me, a book is a story. Where millions of pieces and ideas are put together, combining into one big masterpiece. Whether it's an e-book or an old-fashioned paper back, it still has the same story from the author. Sure, if you would rather flip pages and smell the smell of old rotting paper, that's your choice but in the end it doesn't make a difference what form the story is in- what matters is your outlook on the message the book conveys. A book has one job: to take you to a place of imagination. To let you escape from all of your problems and where anything is possible (Well... that's unless you're rereading a book and you already know what's going to happen).

I personally disagree with Tom Piazza's opinions in the novel Writers on the Future of Books when he says: "When everything has equal weight, everything is weightless. The world they offer is one ofidea of the book. Some man or woman spent weeks or months or years or a lifetime bleeding on the page!" What I interpret from this is that a book offers more than a just couple hundred ripped pages and a nice looking cover. It offers a beautifully designed story- larger than anything you've ever dreamed of or imagined.
infinitely diverse information with a common denominator: the screen..."If everything's the same size, there's no perspective." WRONG. Who cares if it's paper or plastic?  On the other hand, Victor Lavelle made some good points: "It's not the book, but the

It's important for people to know that as time digresses and paper books become transformed into electronic ones, that they still infact do exist. It's up to you to open your mind up to all the possibilities books offer- regardless if it's electronic or paperback.