The Future of Books

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The digitization of millions of books worldwide has brought about unimaginable advantages and convenience for everyone that partakes, or uses the technology needed to access these books, commonly referred to as “e-books”. The “e” denotes “electronic”. Several decades ago, the Internet was used only through a phone line to a house and now can be accessed anywhere or time from nearly every phone used today. As new technologies became more evolved, media and personal habits were taken to another level. Commonly, people now read local or world news on their favorite or subscribed internet news forum or setup email alerts for any particular news topic or location, which sets off an alert on the person’s phone. The convenience of electronic reading has become so popular that people have lost sight of the actual need for thorough reading. It’s become much easier for people of all ages to skim over a news article or read a quick summary of a book online. Also, if there is no need to drive several miles to a library, walk the aisles looking for a book and to then stand in line to check out a book which can only be kept for a matter of weeks, then why put forth the effort? The rapid increase and millions of dollars spent on marketing advertisements of products that allow a person to read e-books, such as Kindle, iPad, tablets and phone applications have become virtually impossible to keep up with. The revolution of electronic books has become a detriment to society and there is an urgent need for paper books must outweigh the need for convenience. Paper books preserve literacy and therefore must be kept and never completely made or thought of as obsolete. There are many pros and cons that have to be discussed. As a person get’s older, or becomes more dependent upon internet use it is shown that the time spent reading goes down dramatically, in turn reducing a
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