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Owl
by , 07-02-2013 at 09:44 AM (2043 Views)
This is my first blog post. So I would like to make this short and sweet.
I have been a bibliophile all my life. I grew up browsing through book shops and reading everything I could find. My father was a savant. His library was an unforgettable sight. The books covered the walls and the floors. We had to make little passages just so we could still go inside. You could just imagine the piles of books that towered over an average size female like me. It was magical to walk in there surrounded by literature. And the smell! I can not begin to describe how it impels every nerve in me. There was a time when there were too many of them that they started to trickle down the staircase. Until it came to a point where there were books in every part of the house. It was nirvana.
Now that my daddy has passed, these books and these book shops are two of the few mementos left of him that I've managed to hold on to. It's quite unfortunate to see the number of published and printed manuscripts plummeting rapidly, like an owl that has just lost its wings. Also, book shops are slowly closing one by one. These are two of the main reasons why I am not a big fan of Kindle, EBooks and the likes of it. Yes, it has its advantages -- you can list them all down if you'd like -- but it doesn't beat the feeling of an actual manuscript in your hands. The smell of a book is similar to wine: it gets better as it ages. Nothing can beat the experience of having to flip the pages, caring for it, lining up for one and collecting them. There's a huge difference between an electronic library and a physical one: a real library will never get lost when all forms of technology are gone.
Books take you on countless and endless adventures. Make them a memory, not a file you can obliterate at any given time.
Has the owl lost its wings? Or has it given up the will to fly?
On another note: I love how Kindle thinks they’re so innovative with their “no-glare” screen. You know what else has no glare? A book.
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