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Originally Posted by Anabella
I admit that ereaders are very convenient and eco friendly and so on... but a real book has something in it... the smell of old pages (and new too, but it's different). My mom still keeps some books given to her by some friends (they used to sign it). I usually read old classics on paper, though almost never buy phisical books these days.
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Bingo.
I remember, when I was a kid, finding an ancient book about natural history in the attic. I think it was published about 1850, and it had some really cool illustrations of the Arctic, the tropics, etc.
The weird thing is, I'm so plugged in to the Internet today, I can hardly remember what it feels like to hold a book. I suspect that a lot of younger people have little concept of what a book is and therefore don't share our nostalgia for them.