jimthefishisaninnuendo:

vtoroifront:

reachnerdisms:

coelasquid:

mokou:

agent-355:

nolivingman:

piratesswoop:

thedistortedone:

relativemorals:

YES. I’m tired of all of you pretentious assholes saying that I’m not “really reading” because I use a kindle.

Yes, you are reading.You are just reading a “lesser” form of book. Reading isn’t just reading the words on a page/screen, it’s smelling the book, new or old, it’s wearing the books spine out after rereading it for the X’th time, it’s leaving crease marks on a page you flipped too fast because you were that eager to get to the next page, and most of all, it’s losing yourself in a book to the point where the world around you no longer exists. And I, for one, cannot lose myself in an electronic screen. The words of a real book take on a depth that cannot ever be recreated on anything electronic. So you may be reading a book, but you will never truly experience a book unless you read it in a printed medium.

lol this pretentious bullshit. “The words of a real book take on a depth that cannot ever be recreated on anything electronic.” i mean really. anyway, the words of your reblog have no depth or meaning to me since i’m reading them in electronic form, but u tried it

LMAO I CAN’T

go sniff a book and get the fuck off tumblr bc ur electronic words mean nothing 2 me

BUT GUYS IT’S NOT A REAL BOOK B/C YOU CAN’T SMELL IT

YOU CAN’T RUN YOUR TONGUE UP ITS SPINE

YOU CAN’T WHISPER SWEET NOTHINGS IN WHAT YOU PERCEIVE TO BE ITS EAR

do you not realise how creepy you sound

you’re reading a fucking paperback not eating pussy

you’re reading a fucking paperback not eating pussy

I remember when we used to microwave the copies of Barometer Rising our English teacher gave us because they were pretty musty and we wanted to kill the mold. Don’t do this at home, kids.

There is something nice and tactile about real books, but not all of us have the space for everything we read, or want to lug around several heavy books. I love my Kindle and if anyone tried to tell me it’s “not really reading” I’d tell them to go fuck off and find something better to do than criticize someone for the fucking format they read books in.

I read a pdf of scans of the 1604 edition of Doctor Faustus.

Where do I stand in this oppressive binary

You can ‘read’ from anything, nobody is stopping you. But the experience of the smell of books and the feel of the paper on your hands and the way the ink sometimes smudges because you have read the book so much and you run your finger along every line, caressing it’s utter reality, is unparalleled and therefore actual paper is ever-so-slightly superior in that respect.

sorry.

okay i don’t like to judge but seriously, you people with the paper fetishes need help

thedistortedone:

relativemorals:

YES. I’m tired of all of you pretentious assholes saying that I’m not “really reading” because I use a kindle.

Yes, you are reading.You are just reading a “lesser” form of book. Reading isn’t just reading the words on a page/screen, it’s smelling the book, new or old, it’s wearing the books spine out after rereading it for the X’th time, it’s leaving crease marks on a page you flipped too fast because you were that eager to get to the next page, and most of all, it’s losing yourself in a book to the point where the world around you no longer exists. And I, for one, cannot lose myself in an electronic screen. The words of a real book take on a depth that cannot ever be recreated on anything electronic. So you may be reading a book, but you will never truly experience a book unless you read it in a printed medium.

lol this pretentious bullshit. “The words of a real book take on a depth that cannot ever be recreated on anything electronic.” i mean really. anyway, the words of your reblog have no depth or meaning to me since i’m reading them in electronic form, but u tried it

This :D