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I Prefer Books In Print Over E-books

When you love reading

I really have always loved the feel of a book in my hands as I read. But since I got older, my vision isn't what it used to be. Even the print in the large print books isn't sufficiently large for me to read more than a few pages before I can't see straight anymore.

Since I downloaded the kindle app on my devices, I'm reading a couple of books a week now. What a joy to be able to get the print big enough that I can read for a couple of hours before my eyes get too tired and I need to take a break.

Yes. I still love the paper books, but I really appreciate the eBooks.

Mar. 4/17
12:14 am
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SethGreene531 · M

Yes, nothing will duplicate the physical connection to tangible copies of literature over an e book. To be able to feel the ridged, leather bound spine, embossed with its gold leaf. The smell, the feel of parchment under palm. And the weight of pages filled with the words of literary greats resting in your lap, seated in some remote corner.

Yulianna · 22-25, F

😄sounds like you have sex with this book!!!😄

SethGreene531 · M

@Yulianna: What can I say, I come from a long line of english lit majors and teachers!

Yulianna · 22-25, F

@Seth531: oh i love books too! ☺

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Yulianna · 22-25, F

@Seth531: i have cuddled book, slept with book... but never had sex - yet! 😌

SethGreene531 · M

@Yulianna: Nothing sexual about it. Though, I'm sure the perverts on here have a group that does that sort of thing.

If the breadth of your cultural and literary experience spans teen fiction novels, gossip magazines and socialite reality TV then you can't hope to understand. Similarly, simply digesting a university reading lists worth of books--both classic and contemporary greats--will not necessarily impart a full appreciation of their beauty. Rather, it merely furnishes cold, objective, academic discussion. Their wonder and artistic genius is a magic you either get or you don't, and then you have sorely missed their point.

The appreciation of great works of art and their masters is neither bizarre, perverse or sexual, only beautiful. Stand in the library at Trinity College in Dublin and look up. The above statement will make perfect sense. And rings true with individuals such as Serinitree and others who have discovered the magic of a book.