Post #2: What is a Book?

         A book is a collection of thoughts and emotions, all put into one work.  A book can be held, but can also be heard.  The most important part of the book is the idea.  After all, if there was no idea, there would be no book to begin with.  I think that a book is something that has a specific smell, maybe even a specific taste?  Books are art in the form of literature, and if there were no books, no accounts of what previously happened, we would never learn from our mistakes.  If there were books there would simply be no knowledge.  Personally, I think the idea in itself is more important than the actual story’s form.  It could be a cave drawing for all I care, I just want the ideas to be preserved in some way – it doesn't matter how to me, I want great ideas to be remembered. 
             I think e-books are a great option since they can’t burn.  However, I think it sort of takes away from the point.  You’re supposed to be able to experience and feel the book, and I think just swiping your hand across the screen takes away from the experience of reading a book.  But if I had to choose between the idea and the form, I would definitely choose the idea.  The idea is for sure the most important part of the book.  The correlation between the idea and the book is evident- there would be no book without the idea, and there would be no idea without the book.  What would be the point in having a book of blank pages and calling it a story?  I think that if there were no books, or ways to remember things of the past, that the world wouldn’t really have much of a future.  We wouldn’t be able to correct our mistakes, or fix economic problems, ect because we wouldn’t have known we had made those mistakes before.  Books are important to the world’s ideas and conflicts.