Velde's The Future Of Ebooks?

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.

Carr mentions his personal experience with technology and how it has affected him. He points out his “concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages” (961). Carr isn’t the only one who has been affected by technology; he tells us that even his “acquaintances” have had similar experiences. His acquaintances say, “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (962). What once used to come natural to us has become difficult. People used to rely on books for multiple reasons when it came to research but now that technology has been used more frequently books are not that common. Carr says “Research that once required days . . . can be done in minutes” (962). Carr is mentioning the benefits of the Internet, for his argument he is using both sides so that the reader can relate to his article and understand where he is coming from. Carr quotes Marshall McLuhan when he points out that “the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (962). Although fast research is great and easy to access it has its flaws. Carr mentions that

Carr said “What if I do all my readings on the web not so much because the way I read has changed. i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?” (Carr, pg 7). Since the internet has come into play people have stooped reading books because is easier to just google what they are wanting to know. The internet can change the way someone can process the information on a screen than in a book and how much is actually being consumed by the person. Not only is it changing the way we understand but every technology is an expression of the human will. This allows us to reshape nature to better serve our needs and desires. The internet has the greatest power over how and what we think

His final point in the essay talks about how reading online is associated with efficiency and information gathering, rather than knowledge and

Technology has become an increasingly advanced as well as an important aspect in modern society. That is why Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, was right to fear books and other printed sources would be replaced by modern technology. Technology has contributed to the significant loss of time children spend reading. Additionally, eBooks have replaced print books. Moreover, television and radio have replaced newspapers as the dominant source of information.

Carr not only uses his personal experience with technology, but he also uses vivid imagery and analysis from other authors that also support his main argument to persuade the reader. In the article, he states “ Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do” (Carr 314). Technology has changed the way of peoples thinking and reading. Nowadays, people can't finish reading a good book without yawning on the first page. It has become harder for people to think for

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

This explosion of technology has opened many doors to the way we think and process information. Instead of the mundane linear cognitive thought processes involved in reading a book, the Net offers instant access to social media, games, shopping, and many other exciting and stimulating programs. This not only changes the entire spectrum of knowledge, but it also changes the way we look at the world. That is something the book has done, but not to this extreme.

The author of this article Mrs. Denise Davis is the director of the Office for Research and Statistics of the American Library Association. This means that Mrs. Davis is able to access and is responsible for the reports mandatory for each library across America to turn in each fiscal year, these reports are used to determine what changes the libraries need to make to better serve the public. Given her credibility to write on such topics she then chooses a topic each year to write on to prepare libraries and librarians across the country for the upcoming years. In 2010 Mrs. Davis choose to write on eBooks and their increasing popularity throughout the American population as well as the difficulties libraries have encountered in the past fiscal year to compete with eBooks. Because this article is written in 2010 it shows just how long libraries have struggled with the topic of eBooks and can demonstrate the new policies that have been used by the libraries throughout the past four years. This information can help my research in showing how eBooks have affected the library's behavior, and consequently give me the statistics needed to show the effects of eBooks on the libraries throughout the recent years. Understanding this source is outdated other sources will also likely be used in my final project from the American Library Association websites of statistics of more recent years.

Furthermore, later Carr describes on how the convenience of the internet may be affecting us as a whole and may in fact may be making us dumber: “may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace”. As Carr said that the printing press made us think deeply about the text that was now available due to the printing press. But, the reverse happened with the internet how it made text more available but as a result it made lose that deep thinking we once had making us dumber. This shows

Birkerts explores this idea thoroughly, projecting almost a sense of fear at the thought of any changes to what was already present. “A change [was] upon us—nothing could be clearer” (Birkerts, 2), and the unpredictability of it seemed frightening as is. But beyond this fear, there was a sense of urgency. An urgent need to halt whatever was yet to come, or at least stall these progressions until the importance of physical text was completely established. Having “ co-managed a used and rare book shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan” (Birkerts, 1), the value of literature held to be astronomically important to him. This, however, seemed to be slowly not applying to more and more of the general population with every advancement we’ve made electronically. Shifts in popular methods of learning held as no surprise to him, especially since this had been the case multiple times throughout history.“ [In] Greece…[around] the time of Socrates, the dominant oral culture was overtaken by the writing technology, [while] in

When I first read the article, I went fast enough so I understood the purpose of the article. My second time reading the article I went slow and looked at all the details and aspects it presented. Originally I thought the main point of the article was how books were not being published in the the time period they were intended for, which is not wrong, but the main point is to show how copyright is keeping books off the shelves of readers.

Now days with the rise of digital technology many physical items such as pen and paper are slowly being replaced by computers and smart phones. But is this really a good thing? I read books and of course so do many other people in this class and around the globe. But since the creation of ‘e-readers’ more and more people have been converting to the technology based side of reading. Although technology is slowly becoming more predominant in this era we should not rely on it to always entertain and keep us occupied.

Inferring from that, there are advantages and disadvantages of both the traditional and the electronic publishing. First and foremost, we already know that both the electronic the traditional publishing have the same aim. However, they are different in term of advantages and disadvantages and what we focus on is that the electronic publishing has more advantages than the traditional publishing in term of facilities and ease of use. We must acknowledge that most developments have the ease of use and speed that the simple machines of the past did not. To compare, one of the advantages of electronic publishing is the ease of viewing the electronic version of publications which people can look at online in the comfort of their homes if they like. In contrast, the traditional publications like books are not that easy to access or view with the click of a button on a personal phone or computer. Moreover, electronic publishing is easy to publish whereas traditional publishing is more difficult because it has more steps. First, the author writes the material, then another proofreads it, and then it goes into the publishing house where it takes a long time to publish. Another advantage of electronic publishing is the low cost of publishing while traditional polishing is costlier and more time consuming. For all the reasons mentioned above, there has been an exodus from traditional to electronic publishing which has weakened traditional publishing into near

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.