Electronic literature

  

Electronic literature is all around us. Every time you go on a computer, use your phone, check your emails or use an eBook you are using electronic literature. I personally much prefer reading from a book then a computer screen but with technology these days becoming more and more important in our everyday lives, electronic literature is going to take a bigger part in it as well. This is what I think about electronic literature and books.A book has a personality, something electronic literature could never have. You could pick up any odd book in a library and instantly get a feel for it that only that book has. But with electronic literature, it's always the exact same old boring light behind a screen. With a book you can go through the motion of tuning a real ink covered paper page, something electronic literature can only pretend to do at the best. And one thing that books will always have over electronic literature is the ability to smell the pages (I have a habit of always smelling the pages of a book at one time or another). But I still do read quite a lot of electronic literature but not in large chunks at a time (I'm not sure about you but I always good watery eyes if I look at a computer screen for too long).