What Is A Book?

A book is an adventure that you don't go on in reality with the characters, but you do go it on mentally. A book is sort of like climbing a mountain, in a sense that when you start out it's easy and not that exciting and then it gets more exciting and sometimes painstaking. Then, when you end, sometimes you are sad, or happy that you had the experience, and sometimes you are even a little relieved. As you read the book, or climb the mountain, you see things you have never seen before and you get a chance to do and feel things that are new to you.
Although a story can be told through anything, a book, a kindle, an ipad, or a phone, a book and a story are two different things. You can read stories and novels on an ebook but that isn't the same thing as reading an actual book; to me at least. When I read a book I like to be able to hold it in my hands, and that is something that is magical. I like to highlight and make notes, and I like to dog-ear the corners of my page, and I love smelling the pages of a new book. If someone is okay with reading a story that is delivered by an ebook, that is their own preference, but I would prefer to read stories with an actual book.

Q: Why is it important to get the story through a real book?
MH: Think about childhood, what it would be like to read all the picture books like Dr. Suess, The Hungry Caterpillar, etc. through an ebook. True, that ebooks are more convenient than having shelves full of hard back books, but I believe that they aren't the same thing. I think that is important to be able to physically turn the pages and hold a book in your hand, because that is part of the charm to reading a novel. There is a place and time for everything, and I do agree that ebooks are useful, but that doesn't mean that they should diminish that value of a real hardback book.