The books in physical format, that is, on paper, are still the favorite for most readers of the world. Without leaving our country in Spain, the number of users who enjoy eBooks does not reach 15% and there are only a few people who claim to read books only in digital format.
As I usually say, the important thing at the end of the day is reading, and it does not matter in the format that is done. In addition, and depending on the prism with which you look at books on paper and in digital format, it has some benefits. Today we are going to discover you 10 benefits that paper books offer us, and some of which you have almost certainly never stopped to think about.
- If you buy a book, this is yours forever. Unlike what happens with eBooks, where you buy a reading license, when we go to a bookstore and pay for a book, it becomes our property forever, being able to do practically whatever we want with it. Of course, please, nobody buy a book because it fits in the living room and highlights your furniture. Books are for reading, not for decoration
- They are easy to use. A book is possibly one of the easiest fun to use. Open and enjoy.
- It Does not Break. I know what a fight against eBooks and eReaders looks like, but although it may seem like it is not. That paper books do not break, generally, when they fall to the ground is a benefit and not a difference with digital books.
- They can be touched and felt. It may seem silly, but sometimes being able to turn a page and feel the paper can be enormously satisfying.
- They have their own smell. How many times have you smelled a book or while you were reading it did you notice the smell it gave off?
- They facilitate reading comprehension. To this day, it is scientifically proven that reading books in paper format allow the reader to better understand what is read and also have a clearer memory over time.
- Can be lent. Without fear of anything and without any complications, you can easily lend it to anyone. Of course, watch out for it to be returned to you, many people ask for it but never remember to return it.
- Your home is our favorite place. All paper books have a house, some live in a bookstore, others in a library and others in our house. Those places are for many places to spend the morning browsing through books and going from one shelf to another, losing track of time.
- A book will never run out of battery. You already know where I'm going, right?
- It is the perfect gift. Everyone usually likes to be given a book and its price is not too high. In addition, and so that you do not fail, the catalog that exists in the market is practically infinite.
Can you think of any more benefits of books in paper format?.
I would like more information about reason No. 6:
«They facilitate reading comprehension. Today it is scientifically proven that reading books on paper allows the reader to better understand what is read and also have a clearer memory over time. "
It is not that I question it but that I need the why, the how, to improve understanding. If anyone can help me I appreciate it. My e-mail goes: humbergon@gmail.com
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1- I think we all own electronic books… I won't say more.
2- True ... but come on, it is not that an ereader is very complicated.
3- True ... but with use they wear out a lot. An ereader (the device for reading ebooks can break down but you change it and the ebook (the digital book itself, not to be confused with an ereader) is always in perfect condition.
4- Well ... I'm not saying anything.
5- It is true although it is also true that they smell when they are new. Then they lose smell.
6- I don't know which study has said it but I don't believe it.
7- True, but as I said in point 1, it is not easy to pass a digital file once the DRM is removed.
8- I have a room at home with a bookcase-bookcase full of books and it is very cool but I wonder where I would have put all the physical books that I would have had to buy if I did not have an ereader.
9- This is true. It must also be said that an ereader is not a mobile or a tablet. An ereader has a very long battery life and charges fast. Anyway, I hope that in the near future ereaders will come out with built-in solar chargers and the battery problem will end forever.
10- Truth. Nothing to oppose.
Now: built-in dictionaries, several books on top with minimal weight, built-in light option, option to adjust the letter to your personal tastes, to be able to hold it with one hand, etc ... there is no color: the ereader is much more comfortable.
Error: where I said "it is not easy" in point 7 I wanted to say "it is not difficult"
1 It is true, and the reason why the VAT is different in one and the other, this is the fault of the publishers that are lists.
2 I do not see the advantage with the electronic book, the electronic one is just as simple, except maybe in shitting the books if they are pirates that you have to know how to use a pc a bit, but if they are bought in kindle it cannot be easier, you connect reader to the internet, you click on the buy button, the book appears on your reader and that's sitting on your sofa. In the electronic it is no longer just easy to read, you turn on and read, it is easy to buy. The problem is that you will get fat because you will not leave home even to buy the book.
3 This is not entirely true, you only look at falls from height. But if you wet it, a paper book breaks, a kobo or a waterproof pocket won't. But yes, if you drop the electronic from a height you have a high probability that it will die. It is also not advisable to leave them in the car in Summer on the seat, the electronic ink screen tends to explode. In my case after several years it has never happened to me, but if you are not careful they will break you.
45 This is for fetishists, personally I don't care and I have not missed it in recent years, neither touch nor smell, and I no longer buy anything on paper. But hey, if it's because of the smell, I recommend hanging a few books as if they were garlic in the area where you read, so you can read digitally and keep smelling. Or buy a bottle of ink and leave it open near where you read. For touch, you tear off a sheet of paper and stick it on the back of the book and stroke the pasted sheet while you read comfortably in your digital book.
6 This reason is the most ridiculous, the reading compression in digital VS paper is the most absurd and pathetic thing that has ever been written, obviously they are studies paid for by publishers that want to continue with the bargain of paper. 100 years from now they will break their asses laughing at these ideas.
7 In electronic also although skipping the legislation, but yes, indeed we are in point 1, in fact point 1 happens precisely because of point 7.
8 If browsing is fine, but in digital it can also only be done in digital libraries. A danger, because you are comfortably at home, and if you are a fast finger you buy a lot of books.
9 If you are on a lost island or there is a zombie invasion and the electrical systems go down, it is indeed a problem. You will also run out of mobile and reading is probably the last of your worries, are you being chased by zombies, or you are starving on the island.
10 Indeed, this point is one of the important ones, although they can be given digitally by giving checks, for example the digital book makes you lose the power to give a gift. But overall, so that they give you Belen Esteban's book, it is almost better for each one to buy their books and give away ties or colonies.
For my part, the paper book can disappear, I think it is unnecessary to continue printing on paper, the electronic one is a great substitute that has great advantages, being able to modify sizes, fonts, not having to load like a mule with books when you You go around, you can read in the bathtub and you can get the book wet, or be in the pool and have water pouring without problems if it is submersible. And it does not require a print run of a paper book that is not sold later, for example. The problem is that you load a lot of jobs: printers, bookstores. But it is the law of life, there are certain products that allow you to give business and work for a while, but a day comes when the business changes.
The one with the paper book has passed, and I think it will disappear. It is true that for people of a certain age who are not used to computers and electronic purchases over the Internet, they will continue to use paper because it is difficult for them to enter the digital book, not in digital life in general. And then we have the youngest who in general do not read, period, neither on paper nor on digital, they watch videos on YouTube, they make a bottle, they watch football and they are not interested in much else. It is a generalization, obviously, there are kids who read, but roughly less and less in favor of YouTube, video consoles, etc. At least I from the girlie that surrounds me, family, friends, etc. There are more who do not read than those who read.
I recommend watching video of Hernán Casciari, in some editorial sessions where he gives a lesson to publishers. It does not matter if the book is on paper or digital, the important thing is that people read less and less. But publishers are still determined to promote paper and continue to make huge profits by charging us unjustifiable prices on paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muOeHR6N8Us
And the whole roll of this article is about that, of wanting to continue with paper, the reason is that the publisher in addition to publishing books usually also has its own printing press, and wins by editing and printing. Also with very high prices that before the electronic book justified by the cost on paper. When the e-book comes up before Amazon, it turns out that the problem was not printing, but translation, and that there are few speakers in Spanish, I get rid of the latter, after Chinese, Spanish is the most widely spoken language, go to Amsterdam, In their language there are few and the news on paper is worth much less than in Spain.
Total that even Amazon, the bad, the satanic, digital books were worth 2 euros less than on paper. What has encouraged piracy to incredible lengths, but is the pure and direct fault of the publishers. It seems a lie that seeing what happened with the music they had so little vision and initiative. Amazon comes in and puts much lower prices, and here's the problem. That if you pocket some money with the paper book, with digital you lose business 2 printing (printing), and you cannot sell business 1 (edition) so expensively.
And this friend is the reason why paper continues to be promoted, absurd studies are made of the compression of reading on paper and that you do not find out in digital, and similar nonsense. That with digital the margins are much tighter, and the publishers wanted to continue to have millionaire profits.