In recent years more and more people are choosing to read e-books rather than paper books. Do the advantages of ebooks outweigh their disadvantages?
Since times immemorial, man has always invented and discovered innumerable things. The
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the advent
computers
made lives easier and the Internet made the smallest information in
the world accessible. This
led to the creation of e-
books
that are the soft copy versions of
the hardcopy books
.In recent years, many people have shown more inclination towards
e-
books
rather than towards
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paper
books
. Undoubtedly, the merits
of e-
books
outweigh
their demerits
. Let us discuss these in detail in subsequent paragraphs.
To begin
with, let us shed some light on the merits
of e-
books
.e- First
and foremost, books
save the environment, as opposed to paper
books
that lead to environment
degradation. To
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e-
books
are soft copy versions that can be accessed via computers
,whereas
paper
books
are made by cutting trees. As millions of paper
books
are created every year, it
results in the cutting down of thousands of trees, and the consequence of such
an action is
environmental degradation and climate imbalance. Since many books
are discarded after
usage, it also
creates a lot of paper
waste, and the cost
of disposing
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such
waste is quite high.
In addition
, because ebooks
can be easily saved in computers
and mobiles, it saves a lot of
space. To clarify, e-
books
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bag
or any extra shelf in libraries.
Because there is no additional weight other than the device e-book is saved in, a person can
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e-
books
with itself and can read them sitting anywhere without any
constraints. To illustrate, an article published in The Washington Post in May 2012, by its
editor Benjamin Bradlee on "Popularity of ebooks
" stated that the majority of people were
preferring to read ebooks
as they found them to be space saving
and easy to carry.
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space-saving
Moreover
, the greatest advantage of ebooks
is their cost effective
nature. They are
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cost-effective
also
for the authors and publishers. To elucidate,
since students
can easily download e-
books
of their subjects for free, they do not need to
pay a lot of money on the books
, and they can share these with others without any
additional cost
. Similarly
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cost
of
millions of copies and can create one
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a much
cost
. To exemplify, a survey conducted by the National Sample
Survey Office on 1000 students
, in April 2018, revealed that these students
saved more than
60% of their costs of books
by switching from paper
books
to e-
books
.
On the contrary
, there are certain demerits
of e-
books
as well. Primarily, many times
e-
books
are available in the form of pdfs, and as these pdfs are just scanned copies of
hardcopies, it is very difficult to make notes on these online e-
books
and to keep a track of
the pages. To explicate, many scanned versions of e-
books
are available in very poor
quality. As the data is scanned and not in the text format, it is not possible to search for any
particular word ,
and it results in reading through multiple pages to look for particular
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one
needs to have good knowledge of the
tools and programs,
and it can really become a tough task for someone who is not very well
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computers
or mobiles. To continue, prolong use of e-
books
can also
pose various health
issues. To explain, text on e-
books
is very small and one
needs to focus
continuously on the screen for long hours. Sitting for longer
stretches of hours can impact
the eyesight, cause headaches and backache. Since Replace the word
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students
study most of the time from
e-
books
, it can impact their physical health
very badly and can also
cause long term
problems. To illustrate, a research conducted by the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada in December2019 on 500 of its engineering students
revealed that the
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the health
students
deteriorated within one year
time frame after continuous use
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e-
books
.
To encapsulate, it can be concluded that the merits
of e-
books
outweigh the demerits
.
While using e-
books
can be economical and environment friendly on
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,on
one
hand, it can also
have a negative impact on health
on the other hand
. The negative effects however
can be
easily controlled by taking measures such
as doing regular exercise. As the merits
outweigh
the demerits
of using ebooks
, it is no doubt that people are choosing to read e-
books
rather
than
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paper
books
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