Old Man Refuses To Change With The Times!

    I prefer the tactile feel, the scent, the elegance, and the romance contained in the ancient form of a real book.

As I have long said, not once will you see, nor hear, the excitement or passion on the face or within the words of someone proudly exclaiming they have a signed first edition download of their most cherished book.

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." 

                                         

                                          - Carl Sagan [Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]

            "If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads"                                                                                                          

                                                                                                       - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

This has nothing to do with Steve

 "Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

                                                                      -J.K. Rowling

Dead Sea Scrolls

                  "The best memory is not so firm as faded ink"

                                                                      -Chinese Proverb

The Ebers Papyrus


"A room without books is a body without a soul."

   
                                                              -Cicero