A book is a resource in which we use to learn. Books can be about anything from politics and government to fictional worlds. Books allow you to use your mind to form opinions that cannot be wrong! Books possess lessons-learned and oddly enough, this makes me think that a book is like a mom. You may not always agree with your mom or a book, but the book/your mom has more knowledge than you and you are the one learning.

                Based upon the other writer’s responses I would have to agree with Nancy Jo Sales because her explanation was simple, yet made sense. She claimed that people like the “…physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells…” which I would have to agree with. I also like how Sales mentioned how there may be notes in the margins when you get a book from someone. I like this because you can’t keep notes right on/by the text on a Kindle or Ipad. Also, the notes in margins proves that books can be passed on from generation to generation which, in my eyes, gives the book meaning because it was a story worthy of getting passed on.

                I really hated Victor LaValle’s response to what a book is because he was mocking writers by saying, “Some man or woman spent weeks or months or years or a lifetime bleeding on the page!” I found this to be so inconsiderate, even as a person who is not a huge fan of reading, because it is understandable that creating successful books for writers is like winning the national championship for a professional football player. It is wrong to make fun of someone’s occupation, especially when a lot of time and effort goes into something meant for people to enjoy.

                With this all being said I don’t think that books should be “done away with” because there is a huge population that are die-hard book fans and would be devastated if bookstores/books were to go away. Also, if all bookstores/books were to not exist anymore I think that everyone would want them to come back because it is very common in these times for people to want what they can’t have or to want to have “old-school” type things. Hmm. Maybe is that what books need? To go away and to come back bigger than ever? This could be risky and let’s be honest, the people in the industry would not go for this. No one wants to lose their job.