People usually do not expect to gain much more from a book than a story. For others, a book can leave them with a story plus ton of other feelings and thoughts they never thought they would have. Physical acts of writing bring words to life through the senses. There is truly much more to a book than one can imagine. Selectively describing an event will give a person insight to the actuality of it. Descriptiveness can be found through sight, touch, and hearing.
Physical acts of writing bring the words to life through the senses. In a story "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler, he writes: "Well, the physical act of writing, with your own hand, brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves them better in your memory" (18). When a person hears words, they begin to feel and imagine, bringing those words to life. They might imagine themselves in the situation they are hearing or reading about. When someone writes, they think about the words that they write down and they feel them. To feel words means to understand them and apply them to your own life. As soon as words are processed through a person's mind, whether it be through seeing or hearing, they are better preserved in the memory.
There is truly much more to a book than one can imagine. In a story "One Writer's Beginnings" by Eudora Welty, she writes about bibliophilia: .
"Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I .
was not in love with them-with the books themselves, cover and binding .
and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with .
their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself" (491).
To most ebook readers, there is a lot more in a book than just words that tell a story. A book can captivate someone and get them so absorbed in the read, it becomes realistic to them. They begin to put themselves in the book, figuratively.