纸质书给我们的这些感觉电子书给不了

The feeling of going into a library to go through books and meeting people who are as enthusiastic about books as you are.

当你去图书馆游览书，遇到一群志同道合，热爱书籍的朋友时的那种感觉只有纸质书才能给予。

There were times when we finished entire books sitting in a library or a bookstore. We made a lot of friends who loved books as much as we did. Its just not the same with swiping right to see books and reading limited samples on a tablet.

我们都曾有过坐在图书馆或者在书店读完一整本书的经历。我们结交一群跟我们一样热爱书籍的朋友。这跟简单地读读电子试读本的感觉是大不相同的。

Books are so much easier to scan and skim.

纸质书籍更容易浏览和略读。

You can just flip through 100 pages to approximately land on the line you were looking for. How many times have we taken a book we have already read from the shelves and skimmed through the pages？ A book is like a city， and we know the city by its roads and we get familiar with every nook and corner. The same cannot be said about an ebook.

随手翻翻你就可以确定要找的内容的大概位置。我们都曾从书架上抽出一本已经读过的书，再浏览一遍。一本书就像一座城，通过城里的道路，就可以了解这座城，进而熟悉城里的角角落落。电子书则与此不同。

Somehow doing the act of looking for a dictionary and physically searching for the word made the meaning stuck better than just long-pressing on the word on an ebook reader.

动手查阅字典、实实在在地查阅都会使你牢记词义，效果远远比在电子书上长按单词查找词义好得多。

Yes， the inbuilt dictionary in ebook readers is the best thing about them. You get the meaning in such a short time. But thats where it falls short. The meaning evaporates as soon as you turn off the tablet. When we actually looked in a dictionary we somehow recalled the meaning of the word better.

电子阅读器自带的字典是它的一大优势，你可以短时间内获得单词的意思，但这也正是它的劣势所在。因为单词的意义在你关掉电子书的同时消失不见。当我们实实在在地查阅字典的时候，我们更容易回想起单词的意义。

And in turn， when you take a physical autograph of your favorite writer， it makes books priceless.

而且，能得到喜爱的作家的亲笔签名，会使得书本的价值变得无价。

Its another experience to get a book signed by the writer who wrote it. To stand in line and exchange a few pleasantries and then admire the signature for years on the first page of the book. Sadly， digital forms of signatures on ebook pages do not evoke the same feeling. Ebooks will never feel the same. Books are tangible and real. Ebooks are just bits and bytes that can be deleted at a push of the button.

拥有一本有作者签名的书更是不一样的体验。排队等待，互相寒暄，而后多年来一直欣赏着书上第一页的签名。遗憾的是，电子书上的签名不能激起情感上的荡漾，电子书永远达不到这一点。纸质书是有形且真实的；电子书只是数字信息的结果，一个删除键就可以将其彻底销毁，不留痕迹。

Scribbling your name and random words on the book that made it yours.

书上的草草留名和读后随笔昭示着你的专属权。

It is fascinating to find names in second-hand books too. Its fascinating to find a persons name and date of purchase when you get a second-hand book. You wonder if the book evoked the same feelings in the previous owner too. Writing your name is also a sign that you read the book. You cannot do that on an ebook.

在旧书上找到别人的名字的滋味更是妙不可言。当你得到一本二手书，发现买书人的名字和买书时的日期时，必然会感到欣喜感动。你会思考这本书是否也同样激起了上一个买书人内心的涟漪。书上的签名就昭示着你读过这本书，然而，电子书就无法满足这一需求。

A book feels real， tangible and hence you can attach feelings to it.

书籍是真实的，有形可触的，因此你可以给予书本感情。

Each book in your collection has a feeling associated to it： the day you read it， the mood you read it in， how it helped you get over sadness.

你收藏的每一本书都富含一定的意义：你读书的日期，你读书时的心情，书籍帮你疗伤的过程。

Books give a personal feeling when we pass on the book to a friend， family or loved one.

當我们把书给朋友、家人和爱人的时候，书也寄托了我们对他们的情感。

When you give your book to someone， you are placing a lot of trust in him too. And in a way you are giving a part of yourself to them. How can this act be ever compared to transferring an epub file from one device to another？

把自己的书给他人的同时，也传达了自己对他人的信任。在某种意义上，也是把自己的某一部分展现给了他们。把阅读文件从一个装置传到另一个装置的操作又怎么能与传递纸质书相媲美呢？endprint