Whenever I see a new book I smile, and leap onto its pages, placing my hand on them, trying to skim through at once. I try to read everything, the secrets held captive in the book.
As soon as I move my fingers to the next page, to the new line, to a new chapter I feel my fingers gliding over a smooth surface, my fingers slip suddenly, I try to catch up but I can feel the glass beneath my fingers. As I am trying to think what happened, I feel light glaring into my eyes, the uncomfortable light penetrating my eyeballs when I am lying on the couch within the dim room. I need time to adjust...I need time to adjust...
This is the situation that students and other individuals face. We all really need time to adjust ourselves to this growing trend of eBooks and Kindle extravaganza. The coming generation is efficiently adjusting to these new ways but what about the bibliophiles.
When some of us are so efficient while handling tasks with our mobile phones, in various places people still use memo pads and the pen to write their reminders or notices. We are globalizing with various tech-companies updating their devices with features that are so common with our lifestyle, one of them being reading.
Libraries are like museums, college students find libraries like the unvisited room in a corridor unknown to them. Everything is becoming so fast and at our fingertips that we are losing the pleasure of reading, reading under the sun, near the pond or beneath the tree without any earphones, in the silence.
Some use PDFs, some use .docx files and some find the old written manuscripts with the coarse paper fascinating. Books really give meaning to our lives. I feel that a person is more honest towards books that towards any gizmo. We should preserve this culture instead ofstepping into the shoes of the new technology, this doesn't mean going vintage and abandoning phones and everything but reading should be kept alive as an habit.
It gives a better view about this world opening our minds to the amazing facts and fiction.
Keep reading!
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