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Old 04-07-2012, 02:24 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
This morning, I pulled out a paper book that was a Christmas present from many, many moons ago. Inside, I found a collection of colourful Spanish stamps with Franco's picture on them, and a hand-written list of the players from a championship Montreal Alouettes team that I was a big fan of back then. So, you don't even have to hollow out the book to store valuables in it, and sometimes a bookmark also tells its own story. Try that with an ebook!

Of course, on the other side, silverfish don't chew on ebook covers and poop inside.
My husband writes nice little notes to me sometimes, and I slip them in a favorite book and forget about them, until the next time I read them and get a nice surprise once again.

I had forgotten 2 days after my husband and I were married we went into a second hand book shop and he bought me "Fast Food Nation" and I bought him "Brave New World". I forgot about this little outing, until one day recently I took it off the bookshelf and started reading, only to find the love note i scribbled in the front cover of our mutual wedding gift to each other.

I love my e-reader. But I place most of my value in real physical books. Digital books on a screen don't have the "book" feel to me. I'm not just talking about getting all gushy over paper, but just the whole culture of it all.
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