Why books are better than ebooks

Research also shows that readers are more likely to skim pages on an e-book than read it verbatim. Which is popular: printed books vs ebooks?

The majority of students prefer printed over digital books anyway. Statistics say that as of , 87 percent of undergraduate and graduate students would choose paper books over e-books if the cost were the same and 92 percent thought paper was easier to read.

They like to keep them separate. Digital textbooks may be less expensive and make your book bag significantly lighter, but there is more to the cost than just money.

Students will have a better chance in school if they learn from printed textbooks, but read as many eBooks for pleasure as you like. And I will always be. I have three copies of Kindle tablet and an ipad air. I read avidly with those devices. I need to add that when you purchase them, they are available in the cloud.

Some of the interesting printed books I bought during my college years I can no longer find. People borrow printed books and will not return. But not ebooks. Once you purchase, they are yours for ever. And you can read across all your devices. And with sites like BookBub and BookLending.

I dare you. Good luck with that. This is a matter of personal character, and a shelf full of books can help. Physical shelved books enable serendipitous reading. Meanwhile, ebooks are listed on sites organized by impersonal algorithms and semantically obtuse keywording programs. Essentially, you have a pseudo-smart computer program presenting you book recommendations instead of letting you truly see for yourself the bookstore or library of randomized titles that might strike your fancy.

Books can be personalized in a way that ebooks cannot. You are only renting them permanently. With physical books, you have real genuine ownership to go along with your personalization. You can write on the side of the book. As I was researching for this very list, I felt the urge to turn the book sideways and write vertically on the back page. Once I turned that corner, somehow, I was able to unlock another level of creativity and write thirteen more points on the list. Take that ebooks!

You will never have to download an update to your book. When you open it up, the text is there to read. Most everything digital cultivates short-attention spans and multi-tasking distraction. On the average E-Reader or ebook app on your phone, there are scroll-down lists, alerts, and call-outs which are designed to make you look at something else.

Now distraction is a problem and we mentioned that already. According to studies at the University of Utah, only about 2. That means for But books are also low risk in other ways.

An E-Reader or cell-phone allows you to store up hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of books, games, and apps. What happens if you drop it on the street?

With a physical book, you just pick it back up again. You brush the scuff off, and move on with life. Life is over. The day is done. Rarely do people get addicted to physical books. Meanwhile, digital addiction is like cholera for moderns. Many people have embraced the internet age by adapting their reading habits for the absolute glut of information pouring in every day.

If deep reading is an inch wide and a mile deep, power browsing is a mile wide and an inch deep. Book reading caters to deep reading while internet surfing, and E-Reading tend towards power-browsing. Books are three dimensional physical objects with length, width, height, weight, texture, and smell.

Students and employees can go through the learning material while at home and even while travelling. It is convenient for people on the go. Some eReaders come with the option of offline accessibility, allowing people to use it even in the absence of an internet connection. Unlike printed books which have to be ordered or purchased from the bookstore, with time lost in waiting for delivery or travelling to the bookstore; readers can easily access any eBook anytime and anywhere.

The contents on the eBooks are mostly cloud-based, meaning it can be updated any time. Authors and publishers can always add the up-to-date information, providing users with the latest digital content. This saves reprinting costs and the time involved in the process. You can share the eBook contents with multiple users.

The social feature on the ebook allows sharing and liking of content, which is not possible with printed books. You might share a printed book with one person at a time, but an eBook can be shared with many people at once. Students and employees can use this feature to collaborate with their peers. Augmented reality has taken the eBook experience to a whole new level. Readers can view a computer-generated 3D model of the image, which makes reading and learning a much more immersive experience.

The user only has to point the device at the image or text, and an enhanced version of the image will be displayed on their screen. Many educational institutes and organizations are adopting this technology into their eBooks to enhance user experience. Users can even change the fonts of the text. They can increase or decrease the size of the font.