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Advantages to Traditional Books

Books can be read anywhere and do not need power, for a computer, to read them. Another advantage is that people already know what to do with a book and how to read it. Readers know how to mark the page they are reading, how to take notes and where to find or buy them. No tech manuals are needed. Furthermore, many people simply enjoy the feeling of turning the page and holding a book in their hands.

Advantages to Ebooks
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books have many advantages over traditional books. !ne advantage is that you can access ebooks as long as you have access to the "nternet, from virtually anywhere. Another advantage is that ebooks can be cheaper than traditional books. Finally, electronic books offer customi#ation. Readers can change the font si#e, type and color, making the book different for each reader.
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Disadvantages to Traditional Books

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,raditional books do have disadvantages. !ne is you either have to go to the bookstore to buy the book or to the local library to check out a book. Another disadvantage is if you need to move several books, it can be a heavy$duty chore. Finally, they generally cost more than ebooks.

Disadvantages to Ebooks
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books have many disadvantages. books re-uire that you have some type of device to read the book. &any individuals don.t have the money for a handheld or other device. books are relatively new, and many people still don.t trust them or are intimidated by the gadgetry. Finally, the -uality of the screens for reading is still not as good as the traditional printed page.

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"n this debate over traditional books vs. ebooks, there is no real winner. books are still too new to the market to say that they are superior to traditional books. books do have a lot of advantages over traditional books, but in no way are traditional books a thing of the past. ,here is a place for both ebooks and traditional books in the market as much of this debate comes down to personal preferences.
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For those who prefer their books printed in ink on paper, that sounds depressing. But perhaps there is reason to hope that e-books and print books could have a bright future together, because for all the great things e-books accomplish convenience, selection, portability, multimedia there are still some fundamental qualities they will simply never possess.

Bookshavephysicalbeauty.

That's not to say that electronic books can't be beautiful as a medium, e-books are still new and designers have yet to fully realize their potential. But for paper books, we're already there. As Craig Mod points out in his essay "Hacking the Cover," the book cover evolved as a marketing tool. It had to grab your attention from its place on the shelf. For that reason, the best designed covers were often beautiful art pieces. Not so in the digital world. "The cover image may help quickly ground us, but our eyes are drawn by habit to number and quality of reviews. Were looking for metrics other than images real metrics not artificial marketing signifiers," he wrote. And though that might eventually free book designers to get more creative with their designs, you can't display a digital book, even if you wanted to. Any electronic book that boasts beautiful design, does so only ethereally. Author Joe Queenan, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, argued that e-books are great for people who care only about the contents, have vision problems or other physical limitations or who are ashamed of what they're reading. But for people who truly love books, print is the only medium that will satisfy.

"People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, not merely an electronic version, believe that the objects themselves are sacred," he wrote.

"Some people may find this attitude baffling arguing that books are merely ob!e"ts that take up spa"e. This is true but so are #rague and your kids and the Sistine $hapel." "Some people may find this attitude baffling arguing that books are merely ob!e"ts that take up spa"e. This is true but so are #rague and your kids and the Sistine $hapel."
Web entrepreneur, designer and novelist Jack Cheng, who recently funded the printing of his book through Kickstarter, told me that printed books just offer a more robust experience to the reader. "I feel like with e-books, you often just get a meal on the same white plate as all the other meals," he mused. "But a nice hardcover is like having a place setting, having dinnerware selected to suit the food. The story is still the main thing you're there for, but the choices around it the paper stock, the way the book is typeset, the selection of fonts they add their own subtle flavors to the experience of that story."

Bookshaveprovenance.

Your favorite books define you, and digital versions don't seem to impart connections that are quite as deep. Queenan again: Books as physical objects matter to me, because they evoke the past. A Mtro ticket falls out of a book I bought 40 years ago, and I am transported back to the Rue Saint-Jacques on Sept. 12, 1972, where I am waiting for someone named Annie LeCombe. A telephone message from a friend who died too young falls out of a book, and I find myself back in the Chateau Marmont on a balmy September day in 1995. A note I scribbled to myself in "Homage to Catalonia" in 1973 when I was in Granada reminds me to learn Spanish, which I have not yet done, and to go back to Granada. This piece of the experience doesn't translate to the electronic format. Someday in the distant future, maybe David Eggers' Kindle will be sold by Bauman Rare Books on Madison Avenue, but it's unlikely that digital books will ever be personal artifacts the way that their physical counterparts can be. "I think print andpaperhas a lastingvaluethat peopleappreciate . Pixels are too temporary," said Praveen Madan, an entrepreneur on the Kepler's 2020 team, via email. Madan and his cohorts are attempting to reinvent the business model for independent bookstores, including ways to sell and offer services around e-books. "Books have been around for a very long time and people have a deeper relationship with some books than most digital content," he said.

Printedbooksare collectible.

They possess the quality of scarcity, which means that your copy is unique on some level. For readers who truly love a particular book, an electronic facsimile is not an adequate replacement for owning a physical copy. "There are books that I need bound and sitting on my shelf. I need a copy of Fahrenheit 451. That book is important to me," author Rob Hart, the website administrator for digital imprint Mysterious Press and class director at LitReactor, told me. "Digital technology is funny you own an e-book, but you don't ... You're paying for the right to access data." Cheng has also felt the draw of books as collectible objects. "Personally I've gone out and purchased hardcovers of books I first read on my Kindle because I wanted them in a more tangible form," he explained.

"%aving a hard"over on my shelf is like having a print by one of my favorite artists on the wall." "%aving a hard"over on my shelf is like having a print by one of my favorite artists on the wall."
He predicts that print might have a future similar to vinyl.

"The physical artifacts are beginning to feel more precious, more like gifts. And I can see publishing going the same way," he said. "Maybe what we'll lose to digital publishing are the cheaply produced mass market printings on poor quality paper. And what we'll gain is a new appreciation for well-designed, higher-quality hardbacks, like the ones folks at The Folio Societyare putting out." In a surprising flip of the traditional publishing cycle, Random House's Doubleday recentlyannounced plans to print hardcover versions of E.L. James' bestselling 50 Shades of Greytrilogy, even though electronic and mass market paperback editions have already sold 65 million copies. Why? Reader demand. You just can't collect an e-book.

Booksare nostalgic.

The PBS website MediaShift recently asked a group of book lovers in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C. which they preferred: printed or electronic books? Those who preferred printed books cited things like the smell, the feel and the weight as reasons.

"Paper books don't get replaced by e-books, because there's just part of the experience you can't reproduce," said one man. (Of course, nostalgia is generational.) But if e-books just replace mass market paperbacks, as Cheng predicts, will books become merely art pieces? Some pundits think so. Writing last year in Slate, Michael Agresta argued that printed books will only survive as art. Books are no longer a good "vessel for text," he wrote. "Bookshelves will survive in the homes of serious digital-age readers, but their contents will be much more judiciously curated. The next generation of paper books will likely rival the art hanging beside them on the walls for beauty, expense, and 'aura' for better or for worse." In some ways, Agresta is correct. It would be smart to bet that print sales will continue to decline, while e-book sales will continue to rise. Most people will own fewer printed books, and those they do own may very well be beautiful collector's editions, like the 50 Shades hardcovers, meant for display. But it's a mistake to assume that this is a case of the MP3 replacing the CD, or the CD replacing the cassette.

E&books are not simply a better format repla"ing an inferior one' they offer a wholly different e(perien"e. E&books are not simply a better format repla"ing an inferior one' they offer a wholly different e(perien"e.
Brian Haberlin is one of the co-authors of Anomaly, an ambitious printed graphic novel, augmented by a smartphone app that makes animations leap off the page while you read. I asked why he chose to print the heavy, unwieldy and expensive hardcover edition. His answer was simple: "Because books are cool! I love print, always will. I love digital, always will. But they will continue to be different experiences. Its a different texture, a different experience and that alone warrants their existence." Yes, Anomaly is one of those beautiful, collectible art pieces. But it also highlights why print is here to stay. The experience of reading Anomaly on your iPad is vastly different than the experience of reading the printed version. The story is the same, but the medium affects the way you read it. It's not totally unlike the difference between watching the movie version of Les Miserables and watching it performed live on stage. There may come a time when we look at electronic books and printed books as similarly divergent mediums. In a recent Fast Company column titled "The Future of Reading," author and comedian Baratunde Thurston made a compelling case for why books might just be better in electronic form. Superior annotation tools, easier discovery, interactive content and shared reading experiences are just some of the things made possible because digital publishing has allowed us to, as Thurston put it, network our words "and the ideas they represent." For Thurston, this is an either-or scenario. Digital books or printed books. And while he lamented our diminished attention spans the result of distractions embedded in the digital format he concluded that it's all worth it because of the great things e-books can do.

But the choice between e-books and printed books is not a zero sum game. Print books do not have to disappear for e-books to flourish, and e-books don't have to be the only choice. "Printed books are for people who love printed books. Digital books are for those who love digital books," Haberlin told me. Maybe it's just that simple.

When a new technology emerges, there is always talk about what will happen to the outdated product. It happened with vinyl records when Ds were introduced and with Ds when !"#s came out. It happened with the $%& when D$Ds came out and D$Ds when 'lu()ay was introduced. *ow the +uestion is what will happen to print books with the growing popularity o, e(books.As more and more people have handheld devices that are incorporated more seamlessly in every day life, the demand for e-books will increase,/ said 0I& librarian, 1ane 2readwell. .2here will still be some books printed but I think, over the ne3t decade, it will move to more e(book publications./ In a society where many people have an e(reader, tablet or both, it is easy to see the appeal o, e(books over traditional print books. 4ne relatively thin, lightweight device can hold a person5s entire library, making e(readers ideal ,or people nearing the end o, a story or traveling and don5t want the bulk o, multiple books weighing them down. %owever, it can be a real pain i, you ,orget to recharge your device and get stuck on a train or plane without anything to read. Also, glare ,rom the sun can be annoying i, you5re en6oying a book on your e(reader outdoors. 2his inclusiveness has also attracted the attention o, te3tbook publishers and students. &tudents can either rent or purchase many o, their te3tbooks in electronic ,orm, saving themselves ,rom lugging the backbreaking load o, multiple re+uired te3ts across campus. .2e3tbooks already have a ,ormat that would be easy to make electronic. $ideos could be embedded in the te3t and

there could be sidebars that you can click on,/ 2readwell e3plained. !aking te3tbook publication primarily electronic can also reduce the costs o, these e3pensive books. 2e3tbooks are constantly coming out with new additions, making the previous addition as good as a doorstop. .2he way that encyclopedias are updated continuously, te3tbooks could be too,/ said 2readwell. 2here are a ,ew drawbacks that could put a damper on electronic te3tbooks though. A 7011 study by 8ate 9arland ,ound that people who use e(readers are less likely to remember what they5ve read and have to reread several times to completely comprehend what they5ve read. I have ,ound this to be true with mysel,. I o,ten have to reread passages because I space out while I5m reading on an e(reader. It is easy ,or me to 6ust click the ,orward button because I don5t have to ,ocus on separating the pages and shi,ting the weight o, the book. &everal people have o,,ered di,,erent reasons ,or low retention rates among e(readers. 8ent Anderson e3plained in an article on scholarlykitchen.org that the issues lie in the e3perience. .0sing e(readers in place o, books is akin to looking at a place in a picture and living in it : there5s an e3perimental +uality to walking the streets, smelling the smells, seeing the perspective shi,t as you move through the buildings, and so ,orth,/ Anderson wrote. %e claims the aspects that make print books uni+ue are what make reading them more memorable. 2hings like the cover art, the actual shape and weight o, the book, the di,,erent ,onts ,rom book to book as well as within a single book, and the ,eel and smell o, the paper add to the e3perience o, reading the book creating a link between these senses and the memory o, what you5ve read. I know I honestly pre,er the ,eel o, a real book in my hands than my e(reader, but the amount o, ,ree content available in electronic ,orm is invaluable to me. I currently have over ;00 books on my 8indle and have paid maybe <10 total ,or all o, that content.

!any o, the great classics in literature are o,,ered ,ree on several di,,erent sites opening a new world to many readers who would never have paid to read such great books. 2hat being said, the price is my biggest hang up about e( books. &everal popular e(books sell ,or the same price as the paperback version. =lectronic copies o, books don5t have the production costs as traditional print books. "ublishers don5t have to pay ,or paper, ink, a printer or distribution ,ees. &o, then, why are they charging the same price ,or an actual book and an electronic ,ileAn alternative ,or people like mysel, with issues o, e(book pricing is borrowing e(books ,rom libraries. &everal libraries across the country now o,,er this service and 'rookens >ibrary will soon be ,ollowing their e3ample. 2readwell e3plained that the library already has over 700,000 e(books, mostly academic and scholarly titles, available right now. %owever, they are not compatible with handheld e(readers. .We are planning to launch ?handheld compatible@ e(books in the ,all, starting with more popular books,/ said 2readwell. Don5t have an e(reader or thinking about purchasing one but not sure how well you5ll actually like it- %ave no ,earA 2readwell said 'rookens is going to allow students to check out an e(reader as well. While I do enjoy the convenience, size and storage space of my e-reader, it will never replace print books for me. I will continue to enjoy the feel of a book in my hand as one side gets heavier and heavier with each turn of the page. I will continue to enjoy looking at my bookshelves filled with found memories of late night murders with Agatha hristie and storytime with A.A. !ilne.
>overs o, ink and paper, take heart. )eports o, the death o, the printed book may be e3aggerated.
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=ver since AmaDon introduced its popular 8indle e(reader ,ive years ago, pundits have assumed that the future of book publishing is digital. 4pinions about the speed o, the shi,t ,rom page to screen have varied. 'ut the consensus has been that digitiDation, having had its way with music and photographs and maps, would in due course have its way with books as well. 'y 701E, one media maven predicted a ,ew years back, traditional books would be gone. %al, a decade into the e(book revolution, though, the prognosis ,or traditional books is suddenly looking brighter. %ardcover books are displaying surprising resiliency. 2he growth in e(book sales is slowing markedly. And purchases o, e(readers are actually shrinking, as consumers opt instead ,or multipurpose tablets. It may be that e-books, rather than replacing printed books, will ultimately serve a role more like that of audio books"a complement to traditional reading, not a substitute.
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%ow attached are Americans to old(,ashioned books- 1ust look at the results o, a "ew )esearch enter survey released last month. 2he report showed that the percentage o, adults who have read an e(book rose modestly over the past year, ,rom 1BC to 7#C. 'ut it also revealed that ,ully FGC o, regular book readers said that they had read at least one printed book during the preceding 17 months. 4nly #0C reported reading even a single e(book in the past year. WhatHs more, the Association o, American "ublishers reported that the annual growth rate ,or e(book sales ,ell abruptly during 7017, to about #;C. 2hatHs still a healthy clip, but it is a sharp decline ,rom the triple(digit growth rates o, the preceding ,our years. 2he initial e(book e3plosion is starting to look like an aberration. 2he technologyHs early adopters, a small but enthusiastic bunch, made the move to e(books +uickly and in a concentrated period. Iurther converts will be harder to come by. A 7017 survey by 'owker!arket )esearch revealed that 6ust 1BC o, Americans have actually purchased an e( book and that a whopping EGC say they have Jno interestJ in buying one. !eanwhile, the shi,t ,rom e(readers to tablets may also be dampening e(book purchases. &ales o, e(readers plunged #BC in 7017, according to estimates ,rom I%& i&uppli, while tablet sales e3ploded. When ,orced to compete with the easy pleasures o, games, videos and Iacebook on devices like the i"ad and the 8indle Iire, e(books lose a lot o, their allure. 2he ,act that an e(book canHt be sold or given away a,ter itHs read also reduces the perceived value o, the product. 'eyond the practical reasons ,or the decline in e(book growth, something deeper may be going on. We may have mis6udged the nature o, the electronic book.

Irom the start, e(book purchases have skewed disproportionately toward ,iction, with novels representing close to two(thirds o, sales. Digital best(seller lists are dominated in particular by genre novels, like thrillers and romances. $creen reading seems particularly well(suited to the kind o, light entertainments that have traditionally been sold in supermarkets and airports as mass(market paperbacks. 2hese are, by design, the most disposable o, books. We read them +uickly and have no desire to hang onto them a,ter weHve turned the last page. We may even be a little embarrassed to be seen reading them, which makes anonymous digital versions all the more appealing. 2he JIi,ty &hades o, 9reyJ phenomenon probably wouldnHt have happened i, e( books didnHt e3ist. )eaders o, weightier ,are, including literary ,iction and narrative non,iction, have been less inclined to go digital. 2hey seem to pre,er the he,t and durability, the tactile pleasures, o, what we still call Jreal booksJKthe kind you can set on a shel,. =(books, in other words, may turn out to be 6ust another ,ormatKan even lighter(weight, more disposable paperback. 2hat would ,it with the discovery that once people start buying digital books, they donHt necessarily stop buying printed ones. In ,act, according to "ew, nearly G0C o, e(book readers continue to read physical volumes. 2he two ,orms seem to serve di,,erent purposes. %aving survived E00 years o, technological upheaval, 9utenbergHs invention may withstand the digital onslaught as well. 2hereHs something about a crisply printed, tightly bound book that we donHt seem eager to let go o,. K!r. arr is the author o, J2he &hallowsA What the Internet Is Doing to 4ur 'rains.J

Two different mediums

E!books and paper books are t/o completely different things, #ne is not better than the other, "his is like predicting that since /e have computer paint studios and printers people /ill stop painting pictures, #r that paper currency /ill stop being made completely because /e all have debit0credit cards no/, 1t2s 3ust not going to happen4 at least not anytime soon, +aper books have a place for people /ho en3oy the tangible book4 the smell of the page4 the excitement of picking /hich of the covers they like best, "hey are for book lovers /ho /ant a solid proof that they en3oyed the book and /ant it at a moments notice, E!books are for people /ho care for content or casual reading, +eople /ho have a time and a place for reading and after4 /ill probably not reread the book again, "his also applies to people /ho use text books4 maga5ines4 and ne/spapers and find it easier or cheaper to get their media this /ay, 1 use both but 1 /ill al/ays lean to/ard the tangible, "oo many people en3oy paper books, *nd 1 for one4 as someone /ho /as excited to /ork as a book editor before this self!publishing straight to the e!reader came about and ruined the 3ob market there4 /ill *$W*6% support the big publishing companies /ith my business in buying +aper books,
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I really hope they won't.

1t2s a different feeling altogether, Not every experience should be emulated0replaced by electronics, %ome things are 3ust fine the /ay they are, "here2s a sort of an attack going on in culture lately4 /ith the computer 8in all its forms9 trying to devour every longstanding tradition /e had, %ome for better4 some for /orse, Ne/spapers4 maga5ines4 editorials4 music consumption4 television : movies, "his device 3ust seem to /ant to replace everything, "he problem is that it seems to emulate each of these to a much lesser ;uality besides convenience, #h /ell,
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Might replace paperbacks, probably won't replace hardbacks

+aperback books are4 on the /hole4 small and light/eight4 cheap and easy to produce4 and easy to carry around, Which are all things that e!books are even better at ! they2re smaller and even lighter4 being that one e!book device can contain hundreds 8if not thousands9 of novels4 they2re certainly cheaper and easier to produce 8and some/hat cheaper to buy94 and being so small4 you can carry an entire small library /ith you /herever you go, 6ou2d never need to travel /ithout a novel to read, #n the other hand4 hardback novels are bigger4 on the /hole more aesthetically attractive4 and are made as much for display as for reading ! especially the bigger4 fancier volumes such as series of leatheround tomes 8like the &arnes and Noble leatherbounds4 for instance4 that 12ve started to collect9, *nd this is something at /hich e!books can2t compete ! hardbacks are presentational4 e!books 3ust aren2t, 6ou can2t sho/ off your collection of literature to people /ho visit your house4 if all you have on your bookshelves is a single tiny e!book device4 can you?
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It just doesnt compare

+hysical books mean that you o/n the book forever, *nd /ho honestly doesnt love seeing a huge library full of books? "he experience 3ust isnt the same, 6ou can buy books second hand and looking through one for research /ill not result in you losing half your computer screen to it4 not to mention your eyes /ont get sore from the screen, *nd you /ill never have to /orry if there is a po/er outage or your reader is going flat,

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ooks are far too special

"raditional paper books have been around practically since paper /as invented4 they are a very important part of the human life /ithout them the society /e live in today /ould be much less advanced, urthermore it is a proven fact that reading from a traditional book is more eco!friendly and better for the eyes than reading an " ook , 1n addition to this reading an E&ook 3ust isn<t the same as reading from a tradition book it<s one of those things that you 3ust can<t explain4 as stupid as it sounds it doesn<t sound or feel the same,
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some things just cannot be replaced.

"here are some things that you cant explain4 but you still need it, * book is one of them, * book is complete as a =book=, +ages bet/een your fingers4 the texture4 the smell, The reading e#perience is not just the act of reading. It is carrying it around, losing the page you were on and looking for it. Marking writing and underlining, and of course the book smell.
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ooks ha$e a longer shelf life.

ooks are much more durable then e!readers. %s many people know if you drop an i&ad or a kindle it is highly likely that they will get broken. %lso the e!readers ha$e the potential to lose power, or ha$e an electrical problem within. ooks do not ha$e this problem, because there are no electronics.
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Technology is not tactile!oriented learner friendly.

6ou can feel the printed book in your hands as a book4 but e!books is one more electric device /hich confuses our brains, 6ou can make the paper books as your o/n4 by putting notes4 underlining, 1 al/ays print out my reading materials4 because it is hard to concentrate on the screen /hile reading4 and feeling the paper in my hands is better feeling and it is much easier to concentrate on paper rather than on a screen.
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I lo$e to re!read pages o$er and o$er again in my fa$orite no$els

Why /ould 1 /ant that taken a/ay? 1 love ebooks to read /hen 1 cant get ahold of real books4 but 1 love flipping to the best pages of a book o$er and o$er again , 1 cant really do that /ith ebooks, 1 think both should be used in our generation, Not everyone can afford technology any/ays, &ooks /ill al/ays be a classic and /ill never die,
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'o, not entirely

or read!once monochrome texts4 1 prefer an e!book reader so long as it has an e!ink display and lighting, "he convenience of being able to change typefaces and font si5es enables reading in all situations, or books /ith diagrams4 images4 or e;uations4 paper is still necessary to get the layout intended by the author and publisher4 though 1 can imagine that a larger format e!ink display /ould ans/er, *nd for books that are studied4 re!read4 and treasured4 1 prefer paper for the complete experience of bibliophily, 1 have thousands of real paper books shelved in this house4 and 1 admit that 1 could happily s/ap >?@ of them for e!books4 but never the rest,
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1 /ould never give up o/ning a real book4 that 1 can feel and hold in my head4 over an e!book, 1 don2t even o/n an e!readers, 1 don2t think e!books can replace actual books because a lot of people like to actually have their books physically there and gro/ attached to them,
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'e$er

-ost of the reason 1 like real books is the feel in my hand4 crisp pages turning /ith fresh ink4 plus 1 never have to /orry about saving my progress4 charging4 )R-4 etc, and 1 can loan them4 sell them4 toss them4 tear them up and let my rat che/ them4 etc,
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1 don2t thin ebooks /ill ever replace paper books entirely, -any people have emotional attatchments to physical books ! they make you 3ust feel good, "hey smell nice4 they feel nice in your hands and you can easily /rite in them /hich isn2t nearly as possible /ith ebooks, "his allo/s for an entire reading experience /hich4 although not al/ays as convienient4 is special to many people and means that 1 don2t think physical books /ill ever fully disappear,

'ot yet

1n the future e!books /ill replace paper books but as of right no/ it is not possible, Not enough people have e!readers to read e!books /ith4 some people are still living /ithout computers or internet4 they /ould never be able to read ne/ books if they ;uit making paper versions, *s internet and technology increase to everyone then e!books has a chance to take over paper books,
Should Electronic Books replace Traditional books? The information technology is developing so fast that great changes have occurred in the way of reading. In recent years, e books have become more and more popular around the world. !anging from popular books to classics, almost every masterpiece has been made into e books. The term "Electronic Books# refers to book length publication in digital form, consisting of te$t, images, or both and readable on computers or other electronic devices. %nd the term "Traditional Book# refers to is a set or collection of written, printed or illustrated on paper and using other various material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. This essay will argue that the electronic books will replace the traditional books. The reasons for this are the development of technology becoming the whole library in e reader, convenient to carry around to read and e books can be preserved for a long time unlike the traditional book. &irstly, it can be said that technology is developing from time to time and now the e readers are small and can read almost all kinds of books from online. &inding a book online is making easy for people not to go to the library and find the book to read it. The reader can be easily accessed and it is also user friendly. %lthough some argues that the traditional books give them the feeling of leafing through the book and the book can relieve stress unlike the e-books , the easy access to all books from a single device will eventually replace them. %nother thing is that the e-readers are easy to carry around to read anywhere anytime. The traditional books are difficult to carry and are heavy different from the e books. %nd these e books are convenient to read and the cost to read the books are lower than the traditional books as most of the books can be downloaded free from the internet.

&inally, e books can be kept for a long time until being deleted. Printed books can be damaged for various reasons such as the quality of papers, fire accident and dropping into water . %s the books are made from organic materials, it can spoiled by several things. In conclusion, it can be strongly argued that the electronic books will replace the traditional books. In addition, e books have many advantages that the traditional books cannot catch up with the e readers. %s the technology is developing very fast, the e books will be replacing the traditional books a lot faster than anyone thought.