In recent year, more and more people are choosing to read e-books rather than paper books. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

In the past couple of decades,

rapid surge

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a rapid surge

in the technology has revolutionized the way we consume literature. Some experts

postulates

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postulate

that there is an increasing trend towards reading e-books compared to

paper

books.

This

essay will explain why I believe the disadvantages of reading

paper

books are far outweighed by the positives when compared to e-books. Considering

firstly

the

negactives

characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

negatives

of

paper

books, the most important

one

is that to produce

paper

, often many trees are cut down and deforestation has become a global issue. For an instance, a recent article published by National Geography stated that, deforestation alone has contributed to over 35%

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of

global warming.

Secondly

, longevity is an issue with the

paper

format.

This

means, once a hard

copy

is purchased,

one

has to properly maintain the same in order to preserve it for a longer time.

Conversely

, there is no raw material required to produce an e-

copy

and along with that it can be

archieved

to gain with effort

achieved

archived

for centuries as a virtual

copy

consumes very little space with zero maintenance. The main advantage of e-books is that multiple books can be

possessd

subjected to a special process or treatment

processed

at any given point of time without consuming any physical space. For an example, while travelling,

one

carry

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carries

an e-book reader like kindle or a

pendrive

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pen drive

which stores hundreds of books which offers a benefit of reading multiple books simultaneously.

Furthermore

,

one

can appreciate some more additional benefits that are offered by

virtual

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virtual copies

a virtual copy

copy

of any book. To illustrate, a reader can

heighligh

move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

highlight

any word

that is

difficult to understand and look for a synonym or directly

copy

required data and use it for projects and/or presentations etc.

In contrast

to

this

, books in the

paper

format

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need

a storage unit and there is very little

one

can gain from just reading the hard

copy

of a book. To conclude, there is no doubt that advantages of e-books like helping in reducing the

deforastration

the state of being clear of trees

deforestation

, use of minimal storage space and flexibility for

archieval

a depository containing historical records and documents

archive

for multiple years has encouraged more and more readers to transition from reading a hard

copy

to use a virtual

copy

of various books.