September 26, 2009

Restoring My Feeble Reading Mood


Don't know why it's harder for me to find some alluring ideas to be my post. So I'm now back to basic, I'm just going to tell you what I've been doing since this afternoon. Going to a department store with some relatives is what I just did. While they were having fun, sightseeing, and doing things I was ignorant of, I happened to discover a book section where some books were displayed, an effort of the department store to tempt some potential readers to buy.
It's been a while since the last time I stepped my feet on some place called 'bookstore'. I always think the Internet can offer anything free (though to get the free stuffs I have to spend quite big sum of money to get connected with the network, which sounds totally ironic!) so I think it's foolish to buy things or books in bookstores. I don't have to buy newspapers as the site already provides the print version.

But then I realized some books are not available online even if I use 24 hours a day 7 days a week to google intensively the whole virtual world to find the free e-books of all my favorite books. Some books are born printed and thus must be purchased, that's the conclusion I arrived at eventually.

I gazed at the racks and displays and nothing beats the sensation of holding the books you want to read and at the same time having a wallet full of money, more than enough to bring the book you want home. So liberated!!
But what I'm afraid of is becoming a book hunter not a book reader. I bought some books and novels but as time went by I just left them on my book shelf, which always makes me guilt-ridden every time I see them, like they're waving to me "How dare you leave us stranded here, covered with dusts..."

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