Post #2: What is a Book?

A book is life. And I believe everyone can agree on that because a book depicts the stories, the lives of others. Even if it's a nonfiction novel, life is still evident with every turning of the page. I don't condemn electronic readers per se, but nothing compares to the beauty of a book. To hear the pages crinkling as you touch them, to smell the mix of ink and parchment, to see the words printed delicately on a page. Having an actually book in your hands adds to the experience, it allows you to truly dive into the pages and live. And unlike Kindles and Nooks, you don't need to charge a book, you don't need to stare at a computer screen, for how can you connect to the story if you can't even feel the words with your own fingers.
"if there's no future for books, there is no future..." Tom Piazzo is correct in stating this. For as I said, a book is life and if they were to be ended, our own lives would be as well. We'd be enslaved to electronics, a void and emotionless source. For a book feels with you. Water blurs its words when you  cry with it; crinkles smudge the edges where you held on in fear with it. Books live the emotion with you, carry them like tattoos; welcomed and permanent.
A book is like a person, it needs you to hold its hand, to read its eyes, and experience its emotions. Face-timing can only go so far, and it's like that with electronic books as well. Like Joe Meno says "They remind us that we exist; they show us how we have lived." There is no better way than that to describe how I feel, for even though books are massed produced like Victor LaValle says, it doesn't matter. The book is an extension of your soul, as you read, you become part of the book and it stays with you. A Nook can break (like mine did), but books, the sure heavy weight in your hands, can never truly leave you. For they live and will continue to do so forever.