I
bought my daughter her very first book.
No, not the very first one that she’ll read. The first one that she will write.
I
was in Barnes & Noble the other day and I decided I would buy my two kids
presents to reward them for producing very good grades. I found a
technology-based toy for my 11-year-old boy, and for my eight-year-old girl, I
bought a book-creator kit. She’s given
the tools to write/draw her own book – and then it gets printed.
My
daughter has made a lot of progress this year with her reading. She now gobbles down 300-page chapter
books. She also enjoys writing and
recently got very involved with her second-grade class assignment to write
poetry. The do-it-yourself book could be
just the right tool to propel her into not only loving reading books but to
create them.
Making
your own book is a growing business segment.
Companies like Blurb allow users to go online and upload anything –
photos, drawings, writings, maps -- and create a book of any size or
length. Many of these books are personal
and not intended for sale. People create
scrapbooks or books to honor an event, anniversary, birthday, or special
moment. Some people create a legacy book and share it with family, friends, and
colleagues. I wonder what my daughter
will do with her very own book.
It
would be nice to print books of one’s blog posts, best FB posts, or funniest
tweets. So much of our lives is documented online through our social media
exchanges, but much of it gets forgotten or lost in the maze of digital bits
and bytes. But a printed book gives
structures, shape, and relevance to even the most innocuous tweet or silliest
Instagram shot.
The
first book, so to speak, that I ever wrote, was my journal. I began making entries as a young boy in
these small notebooks. Some were
official diaries with a lock and key. How naïve kids are to think the lock
can’t be picked or broken. Now people
think or hope their texts don’t get hacked.
I
wonder if kids keep diaries now. My generation
encouraged kids to keep a diary. Now
kids are encouraged to go on FB. But the
nature of confessional writing changes when you operate in a very public forum.
It
would be cool to print your own book as a kid.
She will feel special. She may
end up looking at this book 30 years from now. Maybe I will too. Her special mementos mean something to me as
well, especially if it has something to do with books.
Families
should create annual books – not just of photos – but of ideas expressed
through writing.
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Brian Feinblum’s views, opinions, and ideas expressed in this blog are his alone and not that of his employer. You can follow him on Twitter @theprexpert and email him at brianfeinblum@gmail.com. He feels more important when discussed in the third-person. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog © 2016
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