Blogpost 3

To me a book is an author telling a story that everyone can connect to.  Whether the book is a biography, non-fiction, historical fiction, or even science fiction, everyone can relate to some part in the book even if they don’t know it.  The reader could have just experienced something very traumatic or very exciting and then they could read a book and experience that emotion all over again just from reading the detail in the book.  Another reason that helps describe what a book means to me is that with ipads, kindles, and other electronics, I don’t think that the reader experiences the full effect of what the book is trying to say.   I think this because when you open up the brand new hardcover or paperback book you just bought and start reading, I think it’s easier to be able to compare yourself to the characters and it’s also easier to picture in your head what is happening within the plot line.  it makes you feel as if you are in the story experiencing whatever the author was writing about in the book.  With electronic devices, it gets annoying when you have you have to flip the page back in forth especially for a project.  That happened to me over the summer.  When I was working on my English reading project, I had bought the book I was planning to read on my kindle.  After a while I started to get annoyed with having to swipe my finger across the screen just to find one quote.  This is why I find hardcover or paperback books easier to read because you can easily turn back to the page you want to go to.  This is also the reason as to why I agree with the author, Nancy Jo Sales, because she says that eBooks on electronic devices are not as good as your regular old hardback kind of book.  Unlike, with an electronic device, your device could freeze and then what would you do!   This is why I believe any book is better than a book on an electronic device.  Books are teachers!