Paper Book Vs Paper Books

Imagine a day when youngsters would leave for school carrying nothing more than an electronic device weighing less than one pound. The advent and growing popularity of electronic textbooks may make this a reality sooner rather than later. No more students trudging around with 20 pound backpacks strapped to their backs. No more lockers jammed with textbooks and notebooks. The benefits of transitioning to e-textbooks are many and provide advantages for both students and educators.

Marc Presnky argues that college should ban the use of physical books to encourage the use of electronic books. He gives three reasons to support his argument. The author of the article “College Should Mandate That All Textbooks Be Digitized” states three main advantages of having a bookless higher education. He believes that society should move beyond “physical books of the past” in order to move “education into the future” (Presnky). By employing the use of digitized books, Presnky believes that people will have features not quickly available to physical books such as comments or analysis about a book. Lastly, Presnky believes the biggest advantage of fully transitioning to e-books is the liberation of ideas from printed pages. He thinks

Kindle’s remediate books but improve certain features, inclusive of altering typography style and size, offering highlighting tools, built in dictionaries and allowing the reader to purchase new books through the device (Hitt 2013). Since its introduction in 2007, approximately 43.7 million Kindle e-readers have been sold as of late 2014 (Trefis Team 2014). The Kindle does not seek to replace physical books; rather it uses technological convergence to store dense digital information on small, portable physical spaces. This isn’t to say that new mediums have replaced older formats altogether; on the contrary, they have altered them to suit the change in how we communicate.

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.

　　First, students using electronic textbooks in school can lighten a part of the burden of carrying heavy traditional print textbooks. One of the e-Books functions is that it can condense the contents of traditional print textbooks. Since students in Malaysia need to bring a number of textbooks to schools daily, the condensed version of textbooks can reduce the burden (Embong, Noor, Hashim, Ali& Shaari, 2012). Through the e-Books, it is convenience for students

In today's society, everyone's life revolves around the internet. Online networking has completely transformed how individuals communicate, socialize, and make connections. Therefore, it is no surprise that the internet has profoundly affected many educational platforms as well as social ones. Numerous publishing companies around the world have begun to create "e-textbooks" — textbooks that are available online to download. School administrators and educators have debated whether purchasing electronics for academic use is a more practical option to the physical alternative. While digital textbooks have many benefits, the challenges that arise as a result of their over-complicated nature make their implementation in schools less than ideal.

Technology influences everything we do and even books have not been left untouched. Today you can pick up one device that contains all your books. Some of the cons of carrying your books around are that they are too heavy to carry around, they use a natural resource during production, they are hard to see in bad lighting and for older people there’s some strain on the eyes, and printed books are more expensive than electronic versions. (Richardson 2017) Let's face it, mostly everyone has a phone or a tablet of some sort, so why not use them productively. Books are so much cheaper digitally, some are even free. Some people will argue that the digital versions will put a glare on the screen and put a strain on your eyes, but some

One of the most challenges faces e-books reader till now that they cannot easy print the book and reuse it in a printed format, although some are available in PDF format but others sill in a non-printed format. So nonexistence of a physical copy create so sort of resistance from many users perspectives. Many researchers reported that the nature of reading habits of users which require a physical copy in their hand is the secret of reading happiness and the disappearing of this physical copy might influence on the nature of the reading

E-books have some problems since they are electronic data, to open it we must have electronic devices that are able to open e-books and it requires a lot of money. Because of that, many students cannot open e-books because they do not have electronic devices to open e-books, only those students who are able to buy it can. Electronic devices need power sources too, so if they run out of power we cannot open the e-books, while text books do not need power sources so we can open it without worrying about power sources. In other words, unlimited power sources. E-books are also bad for eyes, because we read the e-books on a screen; we know it is not good to look at the screen too long; it will make our eyes tired and damage the eyes, so students should not read e-books for hours. Printed books do not always available in electronic format; then students cannot just have e-books. Printed books are still needed for students. E-books have weird price; a lot of e-books price is exactly the same as the printed books. This does not make sense; publishers do not print it, it costs almost nothing to transport it to schools or stores, and it can be sent immediately after it is published even when we are far away from the publishers, they just upload it in the

The progress of electronic textbooks induces the discussion on whether electronic textbooks perform better than traditional print textbooks. It oriented in the Project Gutenberg using computer to carry information in 1971 (Embong et al., 2012). According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary (as cited in Embong, Noor, Hashim, Ali, & Shaari, 2012), electronic book is defined as “a book that is displayed on a computer screen or on an electronic device that is held in the hand, instead of being printed on paper. It is in multiple electronic formats”. However, electronic books and electronic textbooks can be classified by the purpose of reading; an extra goal in education is included in electronic textbooks (Daniel & Woody, 2013). Consequently, electronic book can be referred as electronically available

Although e-books provide different kinds of resources -- extra problems, video explanation, and lesson related activities -- to students, many students prefer traditional books to the advanced electronic books. Often, students using online textbooks cannot focus on the information because they cannot physically underline the important definitions or expressions. Also, staring at the screen for a long time irritates students’ eyes. Because of irritation, students’ eyes get more tired and drier. Furthermore, the major reason for students preferring online textbooks is that, although it provides an alternative to carrying a paper textbook to do homework and their notes could be “neatly filed on a flash drive” (Helms), technology issues can limit students from accessing their online textbooks. Most of the online textbook software requires a network

Even though some people may always prefer to read from conventional textbooks it seems that soon, especially regarding informational or reference related material, there will not be much of a choice. In his essay Twenty Minutes into the Future, or How Are We Moving Beyond the Book? George Landow says "electronic text seems certain to displace certain kinds of printed matter, even that in books," (218). To illustrate that point,

One reason why the e-textbook is better than the printed textbook in class teaching is because it improves the student's learning motivation and interest. According to a survey of PBS LearningMedia in 2012, it shows that 81% of teachers in pre-K-12 feel that the tablets enrich classroom education. (Technology & Learning 12) In other words, most of the teachers believe that the tablet, a kind of e-textbook device, is playing an important role in class teaching, and it successfully creates an interactive classroom. This means that the teaching model will switch from the traditional teacher-directed into the student-centered by using the e-textbook. To sum up, this data successfully support my point that the e-textbook does benefit the student having a strong desire to learn more knowledge and being more interested in studying.

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.

Since the turn of the century, computers have become more portable, and technology has made many aspects of life more portable. Even books have been become more mobile in recent years with the popularization of e-books available online and e-readers that allow a person to carry a virtual library anywhere. With all the changes, there are some advantages and disadvantages brought by e-books. Is it feasible that it will disappear one day as its disadvantages outweigh its advantages?