Advantages And Disadvantages Of Reading A Book

Reading is a nice way to just sit back and let your imagination be free. In an article titled “How Reading changed my Life” by Anna Quindlen she goes on to talk about how it shaped her as a person and it helps strengthen emotional connectedness. In her book she states, “Socrates was wrong: a reader learns what he or she does not know from books, what has passed and yet is forever present through print”. Ultimately, its about having this joy where we can just grab a book escape and lose yourself in the book, to get lost in the print forgetting about any matters going on in ones life. Being lost and having no care in the world are the reasons to want to grab a book and develop our minds, books will also help shape who we are due to the fact that when we read we are constantly learning new things and educating ourselves. Romanticism can be a feeling used to describe how a reader feels when cracking a brand new book open, the smell of the ink on paper and the creases a book acquires from constant use are physical evidence of the journey the book has taken with its reader that cant be duplicated with an

Written textbooks also provide you with a sense of accomplishment as you make your way through the book, constantly tracking your progress from beginning to end. This sense of accomplishment is one that you’re only able to get with written text. Textbooks have a tendency to bring you into the text and allow different connections to be made relating back to your own life. Due to the attention-grabbing details you tend to want to finish it a lot faster than you believe you are capable of doing. Personally I prefer spending more time learning through written books because I am more capable of relating to the text and connecting to the points being argued. When it comes to engaging in a book or narrative, you are more capable of maintaining focus on the reading with paper text instead of all the opportunity for distraction that screen text brings. Some people prefer screen texts, but others like myself, prefer paper texts because we are able to annotate a lot more and engage more fully, so in the end we are more capable of understanding the points being

Throughout my educational experience, I have always been captivated by the French language and culture. My intellectual curiosity of French has constantly driven me to explore the language beyond an educational setting. As a result of learning French, I realized its positive impression on my life and its lasting impact on our globalized world.

Even so, I realized that I would have to thrive among a large class of students most of whom could already read, write and speak French. With a foundation steeped in resolve, I again made up my mind to give it my best shot. I decided to do more than merely survive and so, I began teaching, on Saturdays, at a French club for children between the ages of 3 and 14. I used songs and poems as learning aids and assisted them in doing assignments from their various schools. I also spent hours in the university library, poring over any book that was written in French, and checking up French vocabulary in my dictionary. Although I had to sacrifice time that would have been used in leisure, it was well worth the effort. I graduated 5th best in a class of 135 people. The secret of my conquest was simple, albeit riddled with painstaking attempts and occasional failures: ‘If you fail, try again!’

In my daily schedule, I like to find a moment for myself where I am able to read a book. My first choice is usually a novel and I read for both class and personal enjoyment because they mean reading a book that I usually like. There are many specific genres or types of books that I prefer over others and there are also some novels that I could read on a repeated basis. The parts about reading a novel which I find the most challenging are finding the book that interests you and keeps you engaged. There are a wide variety of books out there, but there is only a certain book that a person looks for, and if you don’t find that book, you may not be able to read a book that you don’t prefer. The reader will then leave it and not read the book completely or with much

Everyone hates to read at some point in their life, right? I know I did, I hated reading when I was younger. I especially hated reading assigned books from school, with that said, that might be the reason why I hated reading. However, I became interested in reading during the last years of high school. Now I have read more books than I can count. Aside from that, I have always read books the old fashion way. The only time I listened to books was during class. It was okay then, because no one wanted to read the book. Thinking back to it, I know that there were times that I couldn’t concentrate on the narrator. Therefore, I would go back and read it myself, or I would read with the narrator. It is strange, but I realized that I couldn’t concentrate on words that are being read to me… So, is reading a book better than listen to a book? From personal experiences, reading a book personally would help me comprehend it better than listening to a book.

Thesis and Purpose: Books are personal, obsessive, marvelously wonderful. They stir emotions and flicker thoughts in a fashion all their own, and I am convinced that the fragmented world has much less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever minor part of it.

And books are a tactile experience, meaning they are supposed to be experienced through touch and smell (especially for the old books). A book is meant to be an experience that can have depressions and elevations on the cover and text, feeling the weight of the pages as you turn them and all of these elements when combined make a book what it is, but when you read an e-book you are exposed to digitized text and a screen. And it’s been proven that when people are exposed to screens of TVs or computers they are less likely to have a good night sleep. On a web poll about e-books vs. books one person commented, ‘I've tried reading a few e-books but I've always given up. I just don't like looking at digitized text when I'm reading a novel. I like the feel, the weight and even the smell of books,’ many of the following comments made by others agreed with this persons thoughts.

Electronic textbooks are more portable and convenient as they can be accessed by a tablet, downloaded onto a computer or accessed via the internet. The technological benefits available on an electronic textbook are endless. The audio and video capabilities will liven up learning and change the way students understand and retain the material. The emergence of three-dimensional technology may also play a role in the near future. In addition, digital textbooks are much more user friendly. Studying for tests will be more efficient as highlighted notes can be easily transferred into electronic note cards for memorization. The main downside to electronic textbooks is that students will have to purchase a reading device, tablet, laptop or smartphone in order to view digital textbooks away from home or on the go. Most college students have already made this investment prior to starting college.

I don't recall reading a lot as a child now that you think about it I don't believe I read much at all even in school. When we were giving a reading assignment I thought to myself why should I read the book when the movie is quicker. Now as an adult I view reading differently. Now that I have become a parent I hope that reading is more important to my son. I read children's books to him I can only imagine the thoughts that run through his head while his imagination runs wild now. I realize that television rots the brain and reading nourishes it. I view the mind as a functioning system of cogs and sprockets that every time you read it rotates and gets the motor running. Meanwhile taking the lazy way out and not feeding your brain only causes it to deteriorate and rust.

Around the globe many books are banned from schools and libraries because of their content, although many others disagree with the banning of books because it takes away our freedom of speech. Many books are banned and challenged because their content is considered inappropriate or offensive to others. But, others find that it goes against our first amendment rights when they take away what someone else has written. Butler University also shows other reasons for why books are often times banned. Also, many are outraged that books like To Kill a Mockingbird is on the banned books list because they are time-honored books. Many people believe books should be banned because their content is deemed inappropriate for younger audiences or because their content is on sensitive subjects. However, others believe it is our first amendment right to be able to read these books and that books contain important lessons in them.

A book review would be better because you would have had a greater comprehension of what the author was trying to portray. Better connection to a text is done with traditional books instead of ebooks. “In this study, we found that paper readers did report higher on measures having to do with empathy and transportation and immersion, and narrative coherence, than iPad readers,” said Anne Mangen of Stavanger University in Norway, an author of the study, according to The Guardian.” (Bushak 6). Reading with a physical book gives a better experience of reading to the reader, and if ebook readers are not getting that full experience than reading could transform into more of a tasking activity instead of a joyful hobby. Being able to connect to the story makes for better book recommendations. Better book recommendations are made when you are able to connect to the story more because the books will either relate and touch you personally, or not which would help someone decide whether they enjoyed the book or not. “Mangen sees a relationship between reading comprehension and one’s ability to mentally reconstruct a text: “. . . the fixity of text printed on paper supports a reader’s construction of the spatial representation of the text by providing unequivocal and fixed spatial cues for text memory and recall” (Tanner 6). In simpler terms Mangen views that being able to see if the text is one the right or left page, top or bottom of page, and any

Paper books make reading an interactive activity. Paper books effectively enforce that the readers involve all of their senses. When reading a paper book the person has to physically turn the page. The reader has to touch the book, so the tactile sense is invoked. The reader will smell the age of the paper and the ink. A new book smells like what I would imagine the beginning of new adventure would smell like. An old book smells like wisdom, and wonder. The reader literally sees the penned words, and an involved reader will be able to picture the words on the page transform into a live

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.

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