There was a flyer in my letter box
for the Lifeline Book fair. Lifeline is an Aussie charity.
I emitted an excited squeal. I
love books. And I still love actual physical paper books. I have embraced
e-reading with a Kindle app on my PC but I still haven’t quite got to the
e-reader stage. There is something about holding a book in my hand while I am
reading that adds to the experience. Turning the pages, feeling the paper,
smelling that new book smell, smelling that old book smell… I don’t know. Maybe
it’s just that I move away from my PC to do it? It’s a kind of location break
and feels like a real break. Curled up in a chair with a mug of coffee, or
snuggled under my quilt in bed.
But others, who have whole
heartedly embraced the e-reader revolution, are getting rid of their paper books. And
they give them to charities like Lifeline.
Years ago a charity bookshop was
full of bad Reader’s Digest expurgated editions or ten copies of whatever book
was big that year and turned out to be rubbish. But these days that is not the
case. I have picked up entire series for one dollar a book.
So on that date I’ll be there with
my cash and my granny trolley - you know the pull along shopping carts. Voice of
experience here… man, I can pack some books into that thing.
And if I have to pile them high on
top of my already full bookshelves, I don’t mind. I might need a bigger house,
though.
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