That's Why You Read? To Smell a Book?

                A book is a blank canvas for the individual imagination to paint its picture. Movies take books and they paint the picture for you. But the great thing about books is that you can take them and create your own movie. “A Book is actually a place, a place where we, as readers, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word into play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.” –Joe Meno, A Book is a Place

                Today so many people are concerned with how stories are told. Books or movies? That used to be the simple question but now it’s more complex. Book—hardcover, paperback—Kindle, iPod, iPad, iWhateverItIsYouUse or movie? And for some reason people think that each one of these is the same. Really the question is as simple as this: Text or Visual? I don’t care what you read on. You’re still reading the same story. It doesn’t matter what it is you’re reading on. The important thing is that you get the meaning and point of the story. Getting that new book smell isn’t that important. There are bigger things in life than smelling books. “The message [of the book], the content [is] more vital than the medium.” –Joe Meno, A Book is a Place