What is a book?

A book is an imagination. A book is the writer's imagination, their thoughts and perspective. A book posses almost everything that a person does. It has feeling and life. Just in a different way. Its feelings are through the characters feelings and what they are going through in the book. A book comes to life when the reader makes it come to life. The reader has to put themselves into the book to bring it to life. The reader is able to see the book's feelings and life when they begin to connect with it. A book is an imagination because it gives the reader a look inside the writer's imagination, but also at the same time the reader is also able to put in their own imagination into the book. Out of the writers opinion's that we read I think Nancy Jo Sales does a good job at explaining why we need books. She explained how books are like our companions and that we need them too much to go away. I agree with this because books are a part of our everyday lifestyle and we wouldn't be able to get rid of them because of this. I also agree with her that the physicality of the book makes that something about the book special to read. I don’t like Tom Piazza’s response; I don’t agree with him on his answers. Reading on a Kindle or an iPad or a phone isn’t the same for me as it is to read a hardback. I just don’t get the same excitement to read on the kindle, etc. that I do reading the actual book. There is something “magical” about the book when you read, the physicality of it gives you something to look at with pride. Books, like Nancy Jo Sales said, show us how we have existed and lived.