Thursday, December 13, 2012

What is a book?


I believe a book is a bike. The reason it’s a bike is that like a bike a book transports you somewhere. Bikes all have different gears, you can go fast, peddling hard and actually accumulating a distance, or you can switch gears peddle like crazy and move not even a foot. For Books their gears are the genera they are written in. Because when reading, which ever genera it is depends on how far you will get into a story. For me personally, a fantasy mystery would be a high gear, I would read through it effortlessly enjoying it and finishing the book quiet rapidly. But if I read a history book, it would take me hours to read, and I would probably have worked hard to even finish it. Books are also like bikes because depending on the make of the bike depends on how many places you can go. If you have a bike that is old with a handle bar basket that’s meant for a simple quiet ride around town, but if you get a bike that’s new and is multi-terrine you could ride the bike all over the place hours at a time with our worrying about wearing them out. A book is the same way, unlike what some people believe that new kindles are ruining reading and we over time will run out of books are not true. Hard cover/ paperbacks give you one book and on book alone, they are like the old bike simple well used something to hold on to. Kindles, nooks or any other tablet devise, are just new flash bikes; they allow you to store many books at once and enjoys them all with one simple device. I don’t belie we will ever get rid of hardcover/paperbacks because they are like old bikes people still enjoy to hold on to them and have them for leaser they love the feel of a brisk ride down the street just like paperback/hardcover lovers love those books because they have something to hold onto or the way it feels in their hands or that like an old bike its soft on the eyes. New bikes will be bold and flashy like kindles, some may not like them because they can’t read them or they think the old books will be lost . But I believe like old bikes. Old books will never be forgotten and will still be used.

2 comments:

  1. The thing I personally like most about books is that the take you to new places, like you said. Like riding a bike also, I like that reading a book is a complete experience. They're all different. I agree. This is a great comparison!

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  2. I think that was a really interesting pick. I completely agree though. When you open a book it's like you getting on the bike, when you start reading it takes you to different places like you said, just like riding a bike. I also like your comparison of electronic books with flashy bikes

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