for all my fellow Jerseyites...

don't judge a book by it's cover.

I don't know why I like paperback books.

Hardcovers are so durable, so protective, so beautiful (when the book has been bound and printed in a fancy edition). And part of me would like to have a pretty library, with volume after volume of fancy editions to display and have at hand for use...in certain cases, as in encyclopedias, dictionaries, the classics, etc, this is the better format. But in my everyday reading, the hardcover presents an exterior that is formal and foreboding. Large and cumbersome. For many books, I want the softcover. The paperback cover, which is no more than another page of the book, another page of the story. It invites you to become more intimate. To curl up comfortably as you canvass from cover to cover. And when the things we love are fragile, it forces us treat take especial care and treat such treasures as we ought to.

Each cover has it's place.

I love both and am glad I don't have to choose between them.

It's what's inside the covers that counts.

p.s. I was wrong,

I do know why I like paperback books. :)