What do you think of Digital Books?

eqoatl · 01-06-2015, 05:15 PM

I dont care for them. It could be because we're so accustomed to looking at screens that the traditional paperback is a nice escape, an organic feeling, or maybe because I'm old-fashioned.

But I enjoy flipping pages and watching the creases form at the spine after I've been reading for a long period of time. Highlighting and taking notes on certain paragraphs that transported me from my world into the writer's. Going back and reading the same words, accompanied by the same feeling.

There's something about tapping a piece of glass that doesn't make me feel the same. Staring at a display of words feels disconnected, like I can't reach that meditative trance. Its like that intrinsic piece of the writer to reader feels like its missing.

How do you feel about them?

-DB

01-06-2015, 05:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
eqoatl Groupie Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 5	What do you think of Digital Books? I dont care for them. It could be because we're so accustomed to looking at screens that the traditional paperback is a nice escape, an organic feeling, or maybe because I'm old-fashioned. But I enjoy flipping pages and watching the creases form at the spine after I've been reading for a long period of time. Highlighting and taking notes on certain paragraphs that transported me from my world into the writer's. Going back and reading the same words, accompanied by the same feeling. There's something about tapping a piece of glass that doesn't make me feel the same. Staring at a display of words feels disconnected, like I can't reach that meditative trance. Its like that intrinsic piece of the writer to reader feels like its missing. How do you feel about them? -DB