What is a book? For me, a book is a rearrangement of twenty-six letters in a way that creates words, sentences, paragraphs, and then pages. It can tell a story, inform you about something, or even show you how to do something. Books can take you to places you have never seen or heard of, or it can bring back memories from long ago. It can take you away from the real world, or it can show you how the world really is. It can do many different things. But a book has a spine, with pages, paragraphs, sentences, and words. It may have pictures, or just thoughts. It could have your own writing, or others who have come before you. It is a tangible item,which is picked up, flipped through, read, and then put back on a shelf to maybe read again sometime. It can share information on life, or share thoughts on the latest events. Not all books are the best condition, but they all have a purpose. The book itself isn't all that important, but it's the ideas the book gives to the reader. The ideas are the purpose for writing books. The books just organize what the words are saying.
Books are also things that can be passed down to your children, and their children, and can be touched. Knowing someone else touched and read the book makes it more real, whereas "books" on a computer have never really been touched by someone else. They were only seen, making it seem like more of something in a museum than something real. Things in museums are never touched, only looked at. Everyone wants to touch the exhibits in museums, yet no one wants to touch a real book anymore. Being able to touch it is what makes it real; what makes it a book.
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