Books: my lifelong love

I love books.  I know that this is ironic coming from someone who is writing a blog, but I love them. I have tried to embrace the new technology of e-readers; yet, there is something about books that remains deep in my psyche and being. They have stood the test of time, something that our technology of today has not. the first printing press came into existence in the 1500's changing the face of the economic world and society in general. where books before the press had to be handwritten and therefore only for the wealthy or for state, books became available for the common man. there is something deeply sensual about reading a book. it is more than the story itself; it reaches us on all of our senses: sight, smell, hearing, and touch. we see the pages, we smell the paper and ink and sometimes we smell the places the book was before. we hear the pages turn as we finger them and turn them. books are deeply ingrained in our society at large. Expressions like, "a real page turner" do not translate themselves as well into the e-book world. I believe that books will always be with us. My rationale is somewhat flawed on this point and based solely on fiction, science fiction to be exact. In almost every movie or series of the future, with all of the other changes that is predicted, the book remains. Kirk gets one as a birthday present in Star Trek, the library exists still in Logans Run. the books are the constant, the anchor to the past and the straddle to the future. Max and I have discovered a used book store near our property, in Powassan where you can fill a bag with books for $8.00. I leave there sometimes thinking that I have gone to heaven, my bag of books in tow.