What are the advantages and disadvantages of paper books and e-books respectively?

People who love books will have this experience: although there are all kinds of e-books that can be downloaded to thin readers in the network age, and it is easy to search the online version, a book still needs to be read in your hand. As a result, they went home with solid results in scouring books, waiting for the joy of scholarly sleeves when the package was delivered to the door. This preference sometimes causes family members to frown and complain ... Now many successful people have built a "digital kingdom" on the Internet, but in reading this matter, they choose traditional paper reading. Talking about the reasons, an American entrepreneur said that it is easy to forget the title when reading e-books. What's good about traditional paper books? It may be difficult to give a clear answer, but many studies show that ancient reading methods are big winners in all aspects, such as reading comprehension, long-term memory, children's cognitive development, and the impact on sleep and physical and mental health.

1) Advantages and disadvantages of paper books:

superiority

1, textured, page by page reading, you can enjoy the scholarly atmosphere.

2, more collectible, more practical for giving to relatives and friends, and can be kept as a souvenir.

In reading, readers had better take notes, which is more conducive to understanding the main idea of the article.

4. It is beneficial to * * *, convenient to borrow, with low or no error rate (if not piracy), and can better meet the needs of readers.

5. In terms of comfort, paper materials are more conducive to alleviating visual fatigue under the diffuse reflection of light.

6. Economically speaking, it is beneficial to the development of printing and publishing industry and promotes employment.

7. It is conducive to calming people down, stopping impetuous hearts and cultivating people's scholar temperament.

disadvantaged

1, which is not conducive to environmental protection. Every book is about trees, which wastes the forest resources of the earth.

2. It is inconvenient to carry and takes up a lot of space.

3. the price is expensive. Compared with most e-books, people are reluctant to spend money on a paper book that can be read directly on the Internet.

4, not conducive to search, it takes a long time to find on the bookshelf, unlike e-books with search engines, you can click on the page you want.

5, too monotonous, only static reading experience, e-books can insert images into it, giving readers a better reading experience.

6. The process from writer's writing to finished product publishing is complicated, which consumes more manpower and material resources than e-books and wastes social resources.

2) Advantages and disadvantages of e-books:

superiority

1, convenient and quick, you can take out unfinished articles and novels anytime and anywhere.

2, simple and labor-saving, and the carrier is usually small and convenient, such as mobile phone, tablet, MP4, etc.

3, environmental protection, saving resources.

4, cheap, you can read updated books faster and better, and save money.

5. The content is rich, and the digitization of text, pictures, sounds, images and other information content can make readers feast their eyes.

6. Many humanized designs in reading software, such as adjusting font size and color, scrolling reading mode and reading at night, are more conducive to readers to read books better.

disadvantaged

1, easy to eye fatigue, not conducive to health.

2, there are often garbled words and typos, which hinder reading.

3, relying on equipment, no independence.

4. Piracy is rampant, which is not conducive to intellectual property protection and causes great losses to original authors.

Paper books and e-books have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, we can look at their development status. Traditional booksellers have been greatly impacted, and the sales of many bookstores have been declining. However, old customers will still patronize. E-books only change the way of reading, and the content in reading is still king. At the China Book Fair, most classic works or latest works are published in paper. While reading those profound books, readers still prefer paper books. "Deep reading and rereading must belong to paper media".