[Kenna]

I just heard a commercial for a kendal fire..
it reminded me how much I loved the feel of an old book...the touch..the weight.. the roughness of the cover..smoothness of each page..pages sometimes thin and fragile ..sometimes heavy weight paper... quality paper, or cheaper rough dry yellowed over time.. some where the printing stamped so hard it left indents. ..in an old book, you can feel how the ink on illustrations is slightly raised ...the bindings and the old worn leather or cloth binding protector ..the feel of how the edge of the pages feel when your thumb flips through them like an old picture flip book.. I used to love gently touching the pages of a friend's braille books (she was learning to read braille for the first time in her elderly years after being blinded by eye cancer) ... I love touching old books and am sad we live in such an electronic world... book making used to be an art..an appreciated , valuable gift...

tonight I'm enjoying an old beat up copy of Aesop's Fables... signed by faded fountain pen on the inside "To Russell ..From Uncle Irving and Aunt Mildred ..1925"

the binding is broken from the spine..the pages very dry and fragile ... yellowed and rough textured...it's beautiful ...

Nope ...don't think I could get this much enjoyment from a kendle fire.