As I read “Les Misérables,” I think to myself, “It would be horrible if I was still reading this on the small screen of my iPod touch.”
The book is humongous. When I measured it, (print version) it was about two inches thick and had extremely small font.
Originally, I had downloaded a copy of it onto my iPod and after tapping the screen multiple times to get to the end of the chapter, I decided to go check the book out at the library. As soon as I started reading the first page, I thought that it was so much better, having a physical copy to hold.
I will admit that I’m a bookworm. Rarely is there a day when I don’t have a book near me, so I know that when I can not buy a printed and bound book, I will be super depressed. That’s the curse of the bookworms.
Printed books are usually expensive. Sometimes e-books are less expensive, but e-books are not the physical thing. They are electronic and mechanic and sometimes it takes a while to turn the page.
There is something to be said about owning the book. It’s mine. I can do whatever I want. A friend wants to read it? There isn’t a digital copyright law stopping me from lending it to her because I bought it. However, my friend might lose it, so I probably won’t lend them my favorite book (The Fault in Our Stars). But I would totally lend them my fifth favorite.
I have a guilty pleasure. I like to write in the margins of my books. Sometimes I will doodle, but then I came across a really cool idea yesterday when I was surfing the net.
The post said that while you read the book, you could highlight the words and create sentences out of the author’s text that would depict your emotions while you were reading that certain page. It’s like a personal journal written from someone else’s words. I could come across the book ages after reading it for the first time, and I would still be able to feel my emotions that I had felt while reading it the first time.
Whenever I get to the last chapter I like to close my book, sit back, and just take a mental breather. I like to savor the ending, even thought I hate endings.
If I could, I would probably tear the last page out so it never ended. But there is the other part of me that must finish what I started. I have to know the ending, even if the endings are terrible (like Mockingjay).
I do not like to read e-books, but sometimes I can not find the book that I want at the library or maybe it is too expensive. I will occasionally check one out online. I would not buy it because I would feel bad since I did not want to buy the printed version.
E-books will always be my last resort because I do not like the electronic versions that are full of typos.