In print
I love ebooks -- they're so convenient. I can read a few pages on my phone whenever I grab a spare minute or two, wherever I happen to be.
But there's still something about a physical book, isn't there?
So I'm thrilled to have a print edition of The Opposite of Magic out. All thanks due to my husband, who badgered me in a loving fashion to do it and then put a lot of time into helping it come to pass.
To celebrate, I'm trying out a three-book giveaway on Goodreads.
Goodreads thinks there's something about physical books, too. No ebooks allowed in giveaways.
And when I handed my librarian mother a proof version of the novel, she stared at it in something like wonder. My daughter has a book. I didn't get quite the same reaction when the ebook went up for sale last fall. She was excited -- my God, she'd been hearing about it and reading various versions of it for years, poor woman -- but ... there's just something about a printed book.
But there's still something about a physical book, isn't there?
So I'm thrilled to have a print edition of The Opposite of Magic out. All thanks due to my husband, who badgered me in a loving fashion to do it and then put a lot of time into helping it come to pass.
To celebrate, I'm trying out a three-book giveaway on Goodreads.
Goodreads thinks there's something about physical books, too. No ebooks allowed in giveaways.
And when I handed my librarian mother a proof version of the novel, she stared at it in something like wonder. My daughter has a book. I didn't get quite the same reaction when the ebook went up for sale last fall. She was excited -- my God, she'd been hearing about it and reading various versions of it for years, poor woman -- but ... there's just something about a printed book.
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Lisa (Harmonybites)
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Feb 08, 2014 12:21PM
Congrats--and yes, there is something about a book you can hold in your hands, isn't there? I have learned to love ebooks, but the print kind? More real somehow.
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Yeah, ebooks don't have that book-y aroma, either. Thanks!
One of the things I love about physical books is the ability to open a book that I've read many times to a random page and revisiting a moment in the story. I sometimes get a completely new insight into the book that way. I'm not sure if there's a similar way to do that with an e-book. Maybe the Kindle app will come out with a "shuffle" function and that will "turn" to a random page. (Maybe this already in existence and I'm oblivious... highly possible!)
