纸质书给我们的这些感觉电子书永远给不了

网络已经颠覆了音乐产业，

数字式录制已经把传统的相机甩了几条街，

现在连质朴的书本也难逃一劫。

在美国，电子书的销量在2017年就要超过了传统书的销量。随着网络用户的增加，比起去书店买书，在网上得到一本电子书极其容易。所有的数据都表明未来是属于电子书的。然而，电子书能否重现纸质书的感觉？答案是不会的！！！

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

把书给朋友家人和爱人的时候，书上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 them also. 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?

把自己的书给某人时侯，也是给了他们充分的信任。在某种意义上，也是把一部分自己交给他们。把阅读文件从一个装置传到另一个的操作怎么能与传递纸质书相媲美呢？

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

书籍是真实的，有形可触摸的。因此，就可以给书本赋予感情。

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.

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

3. 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。

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. It’s 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大不同的。

4. 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、实实在在的查找都会使你牢记词意，效果远远比在电子书上长按单词查找词意好的多。

Yes, the inbuilt dictionary in ebook readers is the best thing about them. You get the meaning in such a short time.But that’s 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. This is anecdotal but seems to be true.

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。单词的意义也随着你关掉电子书而消失不见。当我们实实在在查询字典的时候，我们更容易回想起来单词的意义。虽然没有理论依据但是看起来应该是正确的。

5. 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.

随手翻翻就可以确定要找东西的大概位置。我们都曾在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，通过城里的小路，就可以知道这座城，我们熟悉城里的角角落落。电子书则与此不同。

6. ebook don’t smell half as good as pages of a book.

电子书的味道不及纸质书的二分之一。

They don’t smell at all. Whereas old books and new – smell good to a reader.

电子书根本没有味道。然而书籍不管是新是旧，对读者来说都是一种美的享受。

7. 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标志着你的专属权。

It is fascinating to find names in second-hand books too.It’s fascinating to find a person’s 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 also signifies 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秒不可言的。当你得到一本二手书，发现买书人的名字和买书时的日子时，必然会感到欣喜感动。你在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了这本书。然而，电子书就无法满足这一需求。

8. You feel like a patron when you pick up a book written by your favorite author. 

当你购买一本你喜欢的作者写的书的时候，你就有是他赞助商的感觉。

Writers depend on their regular readers for their bread and butter. You feel a connection to them when you buy their book. Yes, the same could be said of an ebook too, but a book is still tangible.

作家的衣食饱暖都仰仗着喜欢他的读者。这时候，当你买他们书的时候，就感觉你们之间存在着一定的联系。当然，在这一点上，电子书和纸质书大抵相同。但是，毕竟纸质书是有形的。

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

能得到喜爱的作家亲自亲手签的名会使得书本的价值变得无价。

It’s 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，多年来一直欣赏书上第一页的签名。遗憾的是，电子书上的签名不能引起情感上的荡漾。电子书永远达不到这一点。纸质书是有形的，真实的。电子书就只是冷漠数字信息的结果，一个删除键就可以将其彻底销毁，不留踪迹。

顺便提醒一下大家：

–“If you drop a book into the toilet you can fish it out and read it again. If you drop your kindle in the toilet, you are done!” – Stephen King

“当你不小心把这本书掉进马桶里，捞出来你还可以看。然而，如果你掉进去的是kindle，那么你完蛋了。”——斯蒂芬·金

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