Let’s take care of first things first… I absolutely love to read. Since I’m a writer, that was probably a pretty easy guess. And I prefer to read real books; please allow me to explain. By “real” I mean books made from paper, as opposed to electronic books or reading books on a computer screen. The reason I bring this up? A friend recently told me how much he loves to read his books on the computer.
Therefore, I have made a list of seven reasons I feel paper books are better than books in electronic form.
1) Books are soft and pliable, something you can cuddle with in bed or in a comfy chair. Have you ever tried cuddling with a computer?
2) If you accidentally drop a book, you can pick it up and continue reading. A computer… not so much.
3) You can lie down and rest a book on your face, breathing in the wonderful scents of the paper and binding. I dare you to try that with a computer.
4) You can set your coffee cup on your book. Computers don’t make good coasters.
5) You can hide things in books, like money. Computers tend put up a fuss when you try to stuff things into them.
6) You can make little notes in the margins of your book. On a computer… Oh yeah, never mind.
7) Finally, what on earth are you going to do with all those great book marks?
I actually have a post arguing the opposite =) But touche, fellow blogger, some good points made!