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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Petty dilemma

Pardon me.  


Oh-kay. Here it goes. I am downloading e-books from the net and guess what? I am hating it. I don't have any qualms about e-books. Really. However, I am planning to build (whatever the right term is) a home library for me and for my siblings.


I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.  ~Anna Quindlen

Again in my case, siblings. I want to indulge them, as much as possible, in reading books of any kind. So, I want desire to have the actual copy of the books. 
Also, there's this excitement you get in an actual book. Believe me, there is.  The ancient smell (even if how awful it is) makes me very at ease. 


I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.  ~George Robert Gissing


See? This is what I'm saying. It may sound weird but I want to stick my nose in every good book I know, no matter how chronologically challenged they are. And obviously, I can't do it to e-books. pssssssh. But then, it is very hard for me to avail every book the I want (it's as if it won't cost me much). hay dilemma.


Would I be so impractical if I'll buy a book that I have already read in e-book? 

 
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