Although many of us tend to think at first that the ebook pollutes less than a paper book, studies such as "Tree, planet, paper", carried out by the Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers, confirmed that a paper newspaper contaminates less than 30 minutes of reading on the Internet, a result based in turn on a study carried out by Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden in 2007.
Although I may have forgotten to think that sometimes few studies matter when it comes to sharing these 5 reasons to read paper books.
His smell
Few sensations can be compared to the one we experience when we open a book and that aroma that transports us to some place in childhood, even time, gushes out. The aroma of new content between the pages, of the old, a small pleasure that even today many of us continue to promote when we approach that old library or open books stored on the most beloved shelf of our bookstore.
Improve concentration
People born into the digital age may find less difference between reading on paper or doing it digitally. However, those of us who always read on paper continue to feel more comfortable on those raw pages, free of hyperlinks and distractions. A fact harassed by studies like that of Naomi baron, author of the book Words on the screen: The destination of reading in the digital world, in which 94% of the 400 participating university students confirmed that they concentrate better on paper than on digital format.
You can lend them
How many books by our fathers have we not read? How many have not passed from generation to generation? And the one that a good friend lent you when you were going through a bad time? Paper books evoke a universe of stories to share, lend. Make them last over time as personal treasures.
The art of underlining
Many of us tend to have a pencil handy when we begin to read a book. In my case, I underline phrases that can inspire me to create new stories, quotes to remember again in difficult moments or others that simply make you fall in love, make you travel and provide a lesson. And we all know that opening a book and finding all those annotations as time passes has little to do with Evernote, nor the padding that you can apply to a phrase in Word to highlight it.
They have no battery
Electronic books have many advantages. In fact, this review is not intended to be a detractor of this new way of conceiving literature. But you cannot deny that, unlike the ebook, the paper book does not require a battery or Wi-FiNor from any other source of external energy other than our desire to continue making this book a personal friend to carry around and consume in the most lost place in the world.
Do you prefer to read paper books or ebooks?
On paper, of course. And yes, books. But real books. That reading Victor Hugo is not the same as reading any mediocre contemporary narrative.
How skewed your comment. Not everything current is mediocre and not everything written by Victor Hugo is a work of art.
You're right. Not everything current is mediocre. Most of them are books written by illiterate authors.
Book on paper! Forever! Nothing compares to having a book in your hands, the idea of the sheet separator, opening it and going back to your reading, delving into your own adventure embodied in sheets!
Very good article.
I read in both, but I acquire on paper the ones that I would like to read again.
I always prefer on paper, but I recognize that electronic is more comfortable to travel
I can't believe this is a recent article. How are you going to put underlining to your advantage? What kind of e-book format have you used? Only PDF?
I read on a Kindle and of course I can underline the entire passages, phrases, sentences and paragraphs. I can underline them and add a note to them, underline them and share them on social media, or just copy and paste them. In fact, the kindle will generate a document with all the highlights that you make of all the books that you read and you can access that document and copy or share them.
The other advantage you mention "can be lent" I go back and ask, seriously? At least Amazon offers the possibility of lending the books that you legally buy to any user, you do not need to have a kindle, only an account in Amazon and use the kindle app on your pc, tablet, smartphone, and the best thing is that I am sure that I will They are going to return because Amazon takes care of removing it in the established time (which I think is a month or 15 days)
And about "they don't have a battery" you're right, they don't! and that? If I take my kindle and I have several books downloaded there, I finish or I get bored of the one I am reading, I open another and another and that's it. Whereas if I take one on paper and it bores me or I finish it, I have to wait for the return home.
I don't have to be connected to Wi-Fi to read, simply to download it and e-readers have a long battery life, those who do not last long are tablets.
The only thing I will grant you is that they "have a smell." But let's stop looking for what separates us and focus on what unites us. There are too many advantages that digital reading has. And do you know which is the best? That the e-book is not the big brother who is jealous and afraid of being displaced.
regards
My physical library amounts to 5.347 books. I have more books in various rooms and dozens of shelves than many libraries I know of. And they are all real books, excellent. However, that number is not even 1% of the books that I have in different digital formats. The great advantage of the digital format is the saving of space… Everything fits in a modest 1 Terabyte USB.
Without a doubt, the book is still more practical. At least for old literature lovers. I particularly alternate with the electronic version, since to my traditional library of youth - to which I always ran from behind -, I was completing it thanks to the benefits of digital. Either way, as history teaches us, the two formats will coexist for much longer. We should take advantage of and focus the debate not on the support but on the content: promoting, stimulating, promoting and unleashing that universe called reading.