Tree Killer
November 3rd, 2007 by Me
I am a tree killer.
Sorry but I don’t like ebooks. I’ve written a few, for nonfiction. I do order nonfiction ebooks on certain topics when I want to know something right now and nothing is available at the library.
I can’t get over, though, how a book feels in my hand. I can’t curl up with my computer and enjoy a book the same way I do an actual paper book. Those little PDAs don’t do it for me either. I have two here and the only books I enjoy off of those are audio.
Books continue to come into my home and they are all welcomed. I pack books on their way to somewhere else with care, sending to people for trade. I’m going to regret the day when major publishers choose to go all electronic, if ever. I prefer to pay a few bucks more for an actual book than get it cheaper electronically.
What makes this so? It’s the same words, the same characters that make up the book. This proves that humans seek comfortable positions, that physicologically, curling up with a book makes you feel better than sitting at a computer. At the present time of course. Could it be that in the future, we’ll get comfortable with reading books online, and that will be our new ‘happy place’?
