Assignment 6- Brittany

1.       If you could live in any fictional book that you wanted, which would you live in?

2.       Which side of the eBooks versus paper and hardback books debate do you reside on and why?

3.       If you could have one talent in the world (yodeling, break dancing, etc.) what would you choose and why?

I’m going to have to go with my second prompt. Normally, I think technology is great and it makes our daily lives more convenient. However, this is a situation where I do not like technology. An actual book that you can hold in your hand is so much better than a piece of molded plastic with buttons to change pages. In electronic form, books lose some of the character that they have in hardback form. When you’re older you can pass down the worn, read a million times, copies to your kids. You can’t do that with eBooks. When I sit down with a book, there isn’t anything that can possibly frustrate me, unless the book itself is awful of course. I don’t have to worry about a screen freezing or a button breaking. There is a certain feeling that a book loses once it is transferred to a kindle or a nook. You can’t run your hands over the multi-colored titles and the spine and feel the patterns that rise off the front of the book. And what if you lose your kindle or forget the password to your account? All those books are gone in a second. If you lose the book you are reading then no big deal; it’s frustrating but you have a library of your own at home. In addition, there really isn’t a more satisfying feeling than the experience of going through a bookstore and finding a book you like.