world of books is one that I love to escape into. I wonder how life would have been without books. I can’t imagine that life.
I could meet the greatest writers personally and spend the day with them but learning a fraction of all they wrote in the books.
At one time, I thought the internet was going to kill books. But having jumped into the internet and read many ebook versions, I realize that there is no comparison to physical books.
Shopping at amazon is good but how can it ever beat the experience of being guided to a book that would change your life, amidst thousands of books laid out in the big book shop.
I’m not a sensory guy, but smelling, touching books is part of the process of buying books.
May be the the old fashioned thinking that books find you, is ridiculous in the time when amazon.com, suggests you what books you should read based on your earlier choices. But my relationship with books was different. There is not much relation between one title to another and if there is an algorithm using tags doesn’t suit my style or that of avid readers like me.
Shopping for books isn’t like shopping for bags or cars. The same algorithm isn’t going to do. But based on amazon.com s success, most people find it correct. no comments.
the branch of pilgrims where I shop is closing down less due to the internet taking its share but more due to the inability to attract new generation readers who directly jumped to e books. It’s sad for bookstores but also for this new generations that don’t know how it is to explore into a physical library, and how not to make choices based on algorithms made by google.
