The Collections We Are Proud Of : Early Symptom of Gluttony and Consumerism?
It is very likely that most of us have things, called as collections.
We do.
Today is just another case. Reading some interesting stuff through the internet, we decided to buy the book, to delve into deeper knowledge of it, and…urm, to add it into our books collection.
Things need to consider: e-book version or physical one?
Economically, the e-book version is definitely much cheaper, without losing its essence. Even with argument of physical practicality, we simply can print it out with appropriate low setting quality printer and by using used paper. Functionally, it is the same thing, and still cheaper.
Eliminating other things, the main temptation to have the physical book is its physical appearance. It looks nicer on the shelves, in line with other books collection.
Our ‘collection’, usually be started with the inspiring thing, and it is meant to be when we decided to own them. We don’t want to collect things as part of consumerism behaviour. Music, film, book (either fiction or non-fiction), Playstation 2/3 games, or anything we ‘collect’ are just another tools, and source of inspiration, of creative process to produce new thing.
However, admittedly, there are some times when temptation plays its part, just because we like and want to own it. It usually, perhaps, drives by the emotional connection with the product.
There is, indeed, a point when collection play its role as the extension of our presence, as a mirror of who we are and sometimes things that we are proud of to have it, an exhibition of part of our life.
‘Fortunately’, limited budget that we have nicely control this materialistic tendency. Ideally, there should be no such collection for us. No cry and blood obsession for the ownership
The music we listen, the films we watch, the books we read, the games we play is live experience that keep playing, not to be stocked up on the exhibition shelves. Once it is absorbed, it is there in our life, alive organically, and drives us to create new experience, with the help of other collection of tools, to be shared with the others.
Ebook is enough then for today!