Post 2: What is a Book?

        What is a book? A book is a place you can go to escape your reality. A book is like a plane. It doesn’t matter what plane you are on but that you go somewhere else. For me it doesn’t matter what form a book comes in but it matters that I get taken out of my reality and into this book so I can get the full experience. It doesn’t matter to me if I read on a Kindle or a hard-cover book. The book just needs to take me to a different place and I think a Kindle can do that and a hard-cover book can do that. The most important part of reading a book is your imagination and you can use your imagination whenever and on whatever thing you want. The story that the book presents is more important than the physicality of the book itself.

            I agree with Joe Meno’s opinion about books. He said, “…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-….” I agree with Meno because the idea of the book and where it takes you is more important than what you read the book on. He also said, “The Kindle, the iPad, these are just variations of a need we have as a civilization, as a species, to use our imagination, and this need is as important in this time as any other.” I thing Meno is saying that the technology we have is just part of our civilization and we are trying to make the best of what technology we have. It would be sad if we have this amazing technology but we don’t use it to our full abilities. Meno compares books to a place where we can imagine things and it is really important to have this place. So if having this place means you have to read on a Kindle then do so, and if you need to read on a paper-back then do so. It is more important that you have this place to imagine.

            In conclusion, I think it is more important to get something or somewhere out of your reading and it doesn’t matter what you read on or how you read. It is more important to get other people to read rather than arguing how to read. No matter how you read, you should feel like you are getting on that plane and taking off into a different world.