The worms in us.

Among many other things, we love reading. We read voraciously.

All sorts of books - we've our favourite ones; but that won't stop us from laying our hands on others only because they're not really our cup of tea. Which respectable reader would not?

We've piles and piles of books. It's actually astonishing that we manage to find enough room where to stash them.

It's not that we're hoarders, really. It's just that throwing books away would probably feel terrible. And, in all honesty, giving books to people who won't truly appreciate them just doesn't feel right... If it were up to us, people who don't appreciate books would be put behind bars. Yeah, that's how much we like those little wonders.

Leafing through those pages is yet another experience a good reader cherishes deeply. And if they're those older books it's even better - the musty smell just drives you insane (pretty much in the same way as some of you out there are in ecstasy when they smell fuel at petrol stations (we like that one too!) Quite an uncanny comparison we know, but you see, it renders the idea well.)

By now you all know that we're also in love with all the latests gadgets. (Really, that doesn't translate in "we're very tech savvy" - we unfortunately aren't!)

Logically you'll tell us: "why on earth don't you just buy ebooks? It'd save you money and space."

Technically you'd be right. Actually we know that you're right.

That withstanding, reading is all about sitting there, detaching yourself from the real world and building a completely new one - one that you cherish better and have complete power over.

And however hard we try, we just can't manage to do that when reading a book on an iPad or an iPhone. It's alright to read an article or an email, but that's a different thing altogether, isn't it?

You may say we're a chip off the old block, but the sheer pleasure you get when grabbing that book and devouring it in a day or two, reading all through the night unaware that so much time would have passed, is something these very cool gadgets cannot ever quite match.

So yeah, we won't be giving up our scores of books anytime soon. Our moaning and squeaking shelves over-laden with those yellowed paperbacks won't be relieved of their burden. Ever.