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Reading - paper books vs. ebooks

by Lily Smith Digi-Seller

Generally speaking, the two formats are very similar. Both allow you to do the most important thing - read a book. The text is the important thing, not the medium.

 

Paper books offer many advantages:

  • They're easily obtainable.
  • They're easily portable.
  • They don't normally cause significant eye-strain.
  • They're cheap.

eBooks have the following different advantages (assuming you have an ebook reader):

  • They're easily readable. Most readers offer zoom functions, letter resizing, and so forth.
  • They're easily portable. You can carry multiple books on one device. At Digi-Seller online bookstore, new ebooks with resell rights are added weekly.
  • They're much more environmentally friendly. You don't have to kill a few trees for each book, and let's not even talk about the ink. Recycling only goes so far.
  • Note-taking is much more powerful, and the notes you write can be found and referenced quickly and easily. And they don't have to be permanent.
  • Lighting conditions definately become meaningless. Many readers incorporate display lighting allowing you to read whenever and whereever you like. 

eBooks are useless without an ebook reader program, because they incorporate a technology called e-ink, which resembles paper very closely, and eliminates most eye-strain issues. Ebooks I think are actually better for information books where your main goal is to spread knowledge quickly. It is a major advantage to be able to change the font size. If paper books go away, reading could go from being a cheap hobby to being an expensive luxury.

 


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Manali Patel Senior  SEO firm
As now a time for the internet for each small need and now e-reading also. Apart from the advantages stated here, other advantage is that one not need to worry more to keep the book safe for long time as for the future use. And thanks for such nice point discussion and article with us.
Dec 23rd 2011 23:00   
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