Exploring what a book is.

A book is a tangible item that is filled with pages that you can read. Nowadays books are replaced with Kindle and iPads, which ruins the effect of books itself. It’s not a book if it is read via technology. A book is something that lets the reader explore the characters and their journey chapter by chapter. Specifically a book possesses quality that can't be replaced, as you flip simultaneously through the book it’s like you’re starting out at sea for a sail. At first it's a little rocky, like coming up with a title, idea, and characters for the author or while reading you are a character yourself, being introduced to the world the book explores. Once you sail deep into the ocean you are becoming more comfortable and more aware of what is going to happen and how to steer your "book". Oceans are filled with dark secrets that man-kind hasn't been able to have the opportunity to explore yet. Writers explore the unknown by creating a masterpiece, but like all masterpieces they don’t come out of the blue. It takes natural creativity and imagination. They can also explore the unknown by breaking the regular "book rules": no one word sentences, even though they add effect to how the character or narrator feels. No one-lined paragraph. No more than one person speaking per paragraph because it might be confusing. No made up words. No irregular sentence structure. No conjunctions starting off the sentence such as: but, and, and. But for a while authors have been diving into the deep sea hoping to come back up for air, if the readers and critics enjoy it. A book is more than just a tangible item. It’s a story. An exploration at sea. As the captain, or the author, travels on the waved waters of the ocean, they keep on coming up with ways to break the rules and maybe take sail without steering to see where they end up. A book is no ordinary object. When you flip through the books, a breeze tangles your face into a smile because a book is much more than a book itself. Nancy Jo Sales said, “There’s something about the physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells--the notes written in the margins--that makes it a living, breathing companion (who, like yourself, is actually dying). I don't think books will ever disappear for this reason: We need them too much. They remind us that we exist; they show us how we have lived.” I agree, it’s hard to explain the feeling you get out of a book that you can’t seem to find in an e-book. Of course, I wouldn’t know because I haven’t yet tried reading off of one and I don’t want to. But it’s true what Sales said that, “they show us how we have lived.” For example, books like Cather in the Rye, How To Kill a Mockingbird, and Romeo and Juliet, which are required for school we write in the margins to take notes, I’m sure on a Kindle Fire you can do the same, but do you get the same feeling? Personally I still have the first book I have ever read by myself, Tacky the Penguin, when I was in preschool in 1999-2000. It’s been about twelve years and I don’t quite remember reading it, but I remember reading it to my younger brother and now he wants it. You see a book can’t quite be defined as an “object” or a “universal definition” Each person has their own personal definition of a book based on their own experiences. You don’t really hear people say, “Yea I remember my first Kindle”. You remember people saying, “My favorite book is…” A book is more personal and meaningful. A book is something that can never be replaced no matter how hard Amazon tries to sell Kindles long line of e-readers. As the captain can see the edge of the beach, the journey is almost finished. The author maybe made some incorrect turns out on the sea, but eventually the compass, or the characters, led him to his conclusion, at the base of the sea. On a shirt that I have it says, “When you see an ocean wave…wave back.” So “when you see how a Kindle reads…read a book.”