Books and their importance

Books have been hugely important in human civilization as instruments for communicating information and ideas. The digital age is challenging their ongoing existence - although the e-book has not yet taken over from print on paper, the landscape is constantly changing, with more and more of the traditional functions of books being performed electronically.

People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artifacts. In fact, books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified, or defaced. David Pearson explores these themes and uses many examples of books from the Middle Age to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. As the format of a book becomes history - as texts are increasingly communicated electronically - we can recognize that books are also history in another significant way. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage.
And now, let's begin with the things or questions that actually challenge us. First thing’s first. I think that we all are what we're reading and not how much we’ve read. There are so many books we can talk about but everyone has his taste in this domain. For example, I like philosophical, psychological novels and in my opinion, the best author who can combine these aspects is Dostoevsky. I don't want to go into details, so I'll give a few names of his books like "The brothers Karamazov", "Crime and punishment", "The idiot". He has a third dimension for his characters unlike other authors who have two dimensional characters. If we read attentively, we can find ourselves in his novels. In the end I'll let you post in the comments section about the books that you like the most and why.

The source: David Pearson