What is a book?

A book is an idea. Its a movie where you the reader must put together the pieces and show yourself what is going on. Unlike a film, a book can take you to a place where you and you alone can choose which way you want to interpret each part of the story. No matter what format or version physical copy, comic, ipad, or even a painting, if an idea is got across it should be classified as a book. Tom Piazza put it best, "One weighs more than the other. If you like to read your books on an Etch A Sketch, that’s fine with me."  ( Tom Piazza interviews Tom Piazza ) I completely agree with him. It shouldn't matter what format the book is on. All that matters is that there is a story or message being shown and the point is getting across to the reader. Today, we have several options as to how we read and where we read. But if we are all reading the same thing what we read it on doesn't matter. As long as the book takes you on an adventure in a way that only a book can.

I know some old timers may say that only old fashioned books are really considered books, but ask yourself what is a book and what is its purpose. Then ask does it really matter how you get the story as long as you are told one? Beginning, Middle, and End a story is a story and a book is a book.