Post #2: What is a book?

A book is a place. A place where you can escape to for a few hours, when life is dull, crazy, or overwhelming. While reading you can control who plays the characters and what they are wearing. Imagine what kind of car they drive around town and what brand of milk they drink. You have that freedom as a reader while filing through a good book. These books I speak of come in all different shapes, sizes, and forms. Whether it’s a kindle, nook, hardback, or paperback it delivers a story to an audience. I agree with the opinion of Joe Meno, in his section A Book is a Place one of his lines stuck out to me. “What I’ve come to acknowledge or slowly accept is that the idea of the book is more important than the actual form it takes” (Meno). I agree with this statement because I don’t think it matters what form the book comes in as long as the story being told is interesting and worth reading. In my opinion over time I think all the books are going to turn in electronic copies. Now a days everyone has a cellphone or a tablet of some sort, so it is going to be easier to just have the book on the device we have instead of carrying another item along with us. As long as the story isn’t being changed it doesn’t matter how it is being delivered to the readers. Just think about it, when you are on a road trip and you are about to finish a book and you don’t know which book to read next. Having all your books in one place helps save space and doesn’t make you wish that you brought that one book. A book in paper form is slowing dying. Enjoy it while it lasts.