How Books Can Improve Reading Experience, And Should We Trade Our Books?

Reading today is a lot different then it was in the year 868 AD; when the first book was published in China. You know a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. Society today is so advanced that everything we do is constantly changing whether we realize it or not. For example, the book, before people would go to a bookstore or library to get the books they were interested in. Today society is making fewer trips to the bookstore and library, and making purchases of novels on their e-readers in the comfort of their own home. With these e-readers you can simply purchase any book you would like, some books being under a buck or even free, saving you a trip to the bookstore. E-readers

Carr identifies how reading a book is different from reading online because when you read online, you don’t think deeply about what it is you’re reading, and you don’t have to concentrate nearly as much. Carr also mentions that the Internet is something people find themselves going to more often than books because it is more time efficient.

Answer: I don’t think e-book will phase out the conventional print book because people often say that print book era has been dead where everything can be finding in eBook and other resources. I too agree with that everything should be in DVD’s, cd’s, usbport etc. but e-Book will help to increase the selling of book. for example if I write down the story by chapter wise every day in eBook after the completation of the book in I can publish the book where I can redesigned the book and I can get the buyer attracted and people will also love the book where it has the version of e-book.

As a new revolution rears its head due to rapidly evolving technology, many are becoming concerned with the potential problems that e-books could present. Ms. Elliot, a retired librarian, expresses her apprehension and concern for this electronic book form through a speech conducted at the “Reading: the future” forum. Directing her speech to mainly booklovers, she also reaches out to parents whose children will be most affected by the development of e-books.

In the essay “What’s the Matter With Kids Today?,” Amy Goldwasser argues that reading and writing text online is the same, or not very different, from reading or writing text on physical paper. This premise is simply not true. Comparing reading a physical book and reading on an E-Reader or on the Internet suggests that they use the same cognitive functions. The lighting on the computer changes the cognitive focus of the brain, as well as brain activation, reading speed, comprehension, and the contextual enviornment of the source material1.

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

According to an article by Ferris Jabr in Scientific American, studies show that most people learn better when they read long texts on paper. This is in part because the brain works differently when the person actually thumbs through paper. Seeing where a book begins and ends helps human brains record and organize the information. Jabr writes, “Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled.” Researcher Erik Wastlund has found that digital reading takes more mental energy, making brains tire more easily. A tired brain has a harder time understanding what it is reading. Thus, it is perhaps not surprising that other studies have shown that when people read short texts, they learn equally well reading on a screen or on paper.

E-Books feel different from real books and that has a profound impact on how the text is read. To Klinkenborg the E-Book is an illusion, both are not the same and those who try to make them so are wasting their time. An E-Book isn’t printed on ink, you don’t actually turn pages, and you can’t feel the book as you’re reading it, which can be very un-captivating. Books are meant to be shared, admired, and collected. Sharing books is the cornerstone of collective knowledge and the inability to do so, in regards to E-Books, is bad for

Books have been used to display information to a reader for many reasons. Some books are created to be read for self-enjoyment, while others may be used as a reference for information. Even then, the book is looked at as a boring, and rather dull object, and that is because a majority of the younger generation tend to pay more attention if there is more eye-grabbing graphics. With more books containing images and more fiction, the idea of books being used for entertainment purposes only appears. Books were not created to be just to be used for enjoyment, but for ideas, formulas, life lessons, world problems, the human condition, and to be learned from.

Reading book depends on multiple factors such as age, education, gender, and race. According to this article, age may be an important factor. The authors reported that the highest percentage of reading group is young age (18-29 years). The statistic also shows that getting older intend to read more. Nevertheless, the percentage of reading is not significantly different in people with age 50-64 (81%) and over 65 years (80%). Moreover, the authors illustrated that the majority of the reader (92%) are well-educated people. For the purpose of reading, in this article, we found that male prefers to read because of study or work, while female aims to read for their pleasure. As per ethnicity or race, the authors claimed that approximately 16 percent of well-educated African-American

The article “Why The Smart Reading Device of The Future May be Paper” by Brandon Keim is about the difference between reading on paper or on a screen such as phones, tablets or kindle etc and depending on the reading style how the reader's comprehension is impacted. The author shares what researchers have found and focuses on the reader’s comprehension because when we read we want to understand. As a reader, I agreed with the points the author made because different points were brought up and there is a lot to read about and in the end, it depends on the person but overall different reading styles matter depending on what it is that you are reading and how long it is. In the article the author uses a quote from a literacy professor at Norway's

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at Your University in Canada and Keith Oatley a professor An The University of Toronto, they both say that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathies with them and view the world from their perspectives.” I agree that reading certain types of books can help people further understand and see things from a different point of view. Reading helps to open people's eyes and to teach life lessons or to show there are other things to believe in and know other than what they have always been told to know. Getting different types of books, types that are not always the same as the books that you normally read can help you to view things differently. For example from personal experience a new book can help your imagination grow, readings helps me a lot when I need to come up with new ideas for an art class. The new places a book takes you the new images you see while you are reading the new stores you hear and the happy ending your book might have can change the way you are feeling it can brighten up your day.

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.

Publishing is a changing industry. The Amazon Kindle and other e-readers have transformed the ways that people read books. Amazon's decision to become involved in publishing e-books as well as manufacturing e-readers can be described as revolutionary and prescient. "Bookstores have struggled to survive the recession and the rise of electronic books" (Turner 2012). The Amazon Kindle is particularly suited to how young people approach reading today it is in an electronic format, information can be accessed with a point and a click, and it is fairly easy to search through information at a rapid pace. Offering exclusive content through the Kindle via an Amazon publishing program seems to be the next logical step.

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.