Post 2: What is a Book?

A Book Is A Soul:

A tangible thing, a book is not just an idea or a thought written on paper. Its a soul, a living thing changing throughout the waves of time. You relate to the characters, fall in love with the plots, and root for their ultimate goal. When you complete a paper book, the last page filtering through your hands, you've won something, completed their story, and collected a trophy. Going back and searching through your bookshelves, your eyes linger on a certain book, reliving their story. But it's not the same with an e-book, looking back through files, the sickeningly bright screen washing away the nostalgia that you feel returning to your favorite stories.
It's like talking to Siri instead of your friends. It might pass the loneliness, may work for the time being. But the conversation, the inside jokes and the witty retorts your friends supply are missing. You are simply interacting with a cold, emotionless voice, detached from anything living. It's the same with books. A paper one- the richness of the paper, the connection that you get just by reading it- is the past souls that have read the book, the thoughts of the author being awakened as you read, soaking it in.
An e-book brings a clinical understanding of the plot, a monotone and lifeless text in your hands. A connection you cannot feel. As Piazza described: "Everything [In an e-book] is leveled out. When everything has equal weight, everything is weightless." When you make an e-book and a real book equal you lose a sense of perception, you miss the reality of the story, the ambition of the author and the true enjoyment the author wants you to get out of the book.
A book is a soul, and an electronic device doesn't do it justice.