Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Dear Kendle

Dear Kendle,

I don't think I like you very much.  I don't want to read my book on a screen...I like books. I like to hold them. I like to smell them.  I like to turn the pages. I like a hard cover book.  I want to own it, I don't want to borrow one from the library.  I might want to read it again, and again.  Although I know the outcome, I am still hopeful that it will turn out differently, I guess that makes me a little crazy.  I get excited and nervous, anticipatious (is that a word?) wondering what's gonna happen next.  But I have to turn the page for that! 

As much as I don't like you, I dislike the audio book even more.  I am past the age of needing to be read to and I don't want to 'listen' to a book while riding/driving to Atlanta:  I want to sleep, or talk to my husband or listen to music.  To me, 'hearing' a book makes it boring, it's like reading a song, but that's just me.

So it doesn't matter what the rest of the world is doing, I'm turning pages, anticipating...sometimes reading the last page before I get to it.  I love books, hardcover, though I'll take a paperback, novels, biographies, fables, anthologies...I have to feel it, with  my hands, with my heart, with my head.

Sincerely,

The Jazzy Diva

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