EBooks and books

In this text I will compare EBooks and books. There are similarities, but there are differences too.

 Here is some information about what people think. In Buenos Aires people still choose the format of books, checked by a poll made to 600 men and women. The 86% of them prefer the book, and the 65% of that 86% say they aren´t able to replace it.

The EBook is an electronic or digital book. It is ready-make to be read everywhere, and with any mobile device. It is fabulous because with only one device you can read any book and it is not necessary to have light to read them, because the device counts with light. But one of the problems is that the device is expensive. Also, the device must be charged every day, if not it will get out of battery. If it falls, most probably it will get broken. And if it gets wet most probably it will get broken too.

The books are the traditional way of reading, and most people prefer them. They don’t spend energy, because they don’t have to be charged. If they fall, most probably it will not get broken. Buying a book is cheap, but there is a problem, a book only contains one or few stories, so if you want to read different books you will have to buy more and more, and in the end it is more expensive than an EBook. Another problem is that to make a book it’s necessary to use paper, and if that paper is not recycled paper, trees would be cut, and if trees are cut, there will be less oxygen. Additionally they occupy more space and are heavier.

In my opinion, I still prefer the books, because after all the EBooks would make me distract easily.

An interesting fact about this, checked by Harvard, is that the EBooks affect the sleep patron, because of the blue light, that is the light that the EBook produces. So if you read with EBook before going to sleep, it will affect you and it will make you more difficult to sleep.