Sunday, February 20, 2011

Books, books, books!

Amit asked me again today whether I wanted a kindle and I replied again with a firm 'NO'.
I love books. Their smell, their covers.... as a matter of fact there are people whose entire careers depend on designing those covers. Oh, how I love browsing through a "real" library and not a 'virtual' one. I could spend hours there. Just for the record, I am no nerd. Actually not even close. But I think libraries are real cool places.
Every city we move to the first thing I do is get a library card. Free books, I mean you can't beat 'FREE'! I know internet has lots of free stuff too, but it's not the same. It does not have the personal touch. Internet has a non-living search engine, compared to a hardworking, passionate librarian....
Lately libraries are closing down, librarians are losing jobs and counties are cutting down on their budgets for libraries. I hope by the time the next generation grows up, libraries are not extinct! That will be a shame. A real big one. One day I would like to take my children and/or grandchildren and teach them how to look for a book in a shelf!
I hope libraries will be forever and to show my support I shall issue a book from my local library right away and maybe donate some old ones!

1 comment:

Vikas Kumar said...

So much attached to librabiers.. thats really cool.. the way tred moved from writing diary to writing Blogs, similarly the library is loosing its esssence, but its really sad....!!