You must be a book lover - let's get you an e reader

In principle - I love the e-reader. I mean, I don't really like carrying around the big heavy book in my little hand bag. I don't like the negative impact on the environment that 300 pages a week brings. I don't like the fact that I don't have nearly enough space to store all my books, or enough time to visit a library.

And I love online shopping. I buy all my presents there because I hate Christmas shopping and there's so much choice. And to top it all off, they sell every book, in every edition. So the e-reader should be my ideal present, shouldn't it?

I have an app, I'm not going to say which but it rhymes with schmindle, and I share my parents e-reader account. I found though that I didn't pick up as much from reading though as usual. I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Steven Chbosky on my app and I found it harder to enjoy and harder to take information into my brain.

I watched the film in October, and yes, Emma Watson is superb, but it was only then that I realised I'd missed half the subtlety through reading on my phone.

I am also a person who is very stimulated by colour. According to this test: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77 (in which I got a good score of 4) I have good colour vision. Because of this the use of colour and book covers influences my reading experience heavily in a way that the e-reader never will (also I have colour coded by book case. I shall talk about that at some point).

I find graphic design really interesting because of the relationship between people's environment and how they respond to this. I know you're not supposed to "judge a book by it's cover" but, come on, that's a metaphor really, isn't it? I love picking out my favourite edition of the book I want to read online. Because nerds. I will spend ages picking out colours and editions, especially of the classics. The e-reader lacks the relationship between the design of the cover, the pages and the reader itself.

I think that reading is a multi-sensory experience, holding and hearing a book gives me some satisfaction. 

I don't know what I'm trying to get at here. I just love that feeling of the soft pages against my guitar-hardened fingers while I listen to the beautiful soundtrack of Jeff Pianki. Everyone else seems to fear that one day books will disappear like handwritten letters or... film cameras. It's your responsibility to buy books if you feel strongly about this, but buy what makes you happiest. For me, it's that parcel that arrives on Tuesdays celebrating my new book haul.

Buy books from me: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/?a_aid=SophieCharlotte