Kevin DeYoung is a fellow bibliophile. He loves books. Not the faux, e-book kind; the kind that is reducible to bits and bytes and a back lit screen. I read his apologetic for "real" books and agreed with a hearty "Amen!"
This paragraph in particular could just have easily been describing me:
This paragraph in particular could just have easily been describing me:
I can’t tell you how often I sit at my desk, push back my seat, and allow my eyes to drift around the room full of bookshelves. I’m not procrastinating, not exactly. I’m scanning the room to see my friends. Their covers jog my memories. They remind me of what I learned once. More than that, they me of my life–where I was when I first read Lloyd-Jones on the couch, how I knelt by the bed with tears when I read Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, how my life was so different 15 years ago when I read my dad’s copy of the Institutes as a college student. If all my books disappeared on to a microchip I might have less to lug around and I might be able to search my notes more easily, but I’d lose memory; I’d lose history; I’d lose a little bit of myself.
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