Books; The Original Entertainment

We live in a world today with thousands of different kinds of entertainment. There's music, TV, movies, video games of all sorts, computer games, virtual reality, and anything in between. IN this day and age few people ever read books anymore. For all of you youngsters out there, books are like Kindles, except its not electric, and they are made out of paper and ink. I personally always prefer reading off of paper rather than some sort of screen, but slowly things like the Kindle and the Ipad are taking over and making books, which have been the best way to share information and stories for hundreds of years, obsolete. Less and less people are reading than ever before and that's a shame. Reading was the very first form of entertainment besides oral storytelling and I think it is a classic. Personally my favorite book is Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut has always been my favorite author, and he too valued paper books as opposed to electronic books, otherwise known as "E-books". Although E-books do have their advantages, like the Gutenburg Project, which combines all classic books that are no longer under copyright laws and makes them free and easily accessible to anyone with a computer. However I believe that reading off a computer screen or a Kindle will never replace the feeling of holding a book in your hands and being engrossed in the story. Even with all the new and exciting types of entertainment constantly growing, sometimes a classic book will win over even the most high-tech video game.