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Old 10-07-2016, 03:00 PM   #163
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Originally Posted by Timboli View Post
Many plainly and simply, don't like ebooks. They feel books are cheapened by being an easily disposable product like a file, etc, etc.
Back when all books were made of paper the term "book lover" referred to people who love books and to people who love reading. I think these days we need a new term to describe people who love reading because they don't all LOVE books.

I've always thought of myself as a book lover and yet all my life I've bought books, read them and passed them on in some way. I rarely kept books I'd read unless it was to find someone to share it with. And then they were gone.

I've never been a note-taker so I never wrote in books are marked them but I never minded folding the corner down to mark a page. And I nearly always read paperbacks and had my current book in my back pocket and i was pretty hard on those books. Fussy people didn't want them when I finished.

So I think I'm probably not a book lover but a lover of reading; a lover of stories.

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