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According to a new study, 92% of college students would rather do their reading the old-fashioned way, with pages and not pixels. The finding comes from American University linguistics professor Naomi S. Baron, author of the book Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World, Baron led a team that asked 300 college students in the United States, Slovakia, Japan and Germany how they preferred to read. Physical books were the choice of 92% of the respondents, who selected paper over an array of electronic devices. It’s not just college students who’d rather spend their time with a book instead of an e-reader. In 2015, e-book sales dropped in the United States, and it’s the same story in the United Kingdom.
Will paper book be replaced by e-book?
Nowadays, the advancement of information technology is shaping new reading habits. E-books are becoming more popular with readers of all ages around the world. Compared with traditional paper books, e-books are cheaper, more accessible, easy to carry and environment-friendly. Many people even assert that e-books will replace paper book in the near future. But a new study from the American linguistics professor Naomi S. Baron shows that 92% of college students would rather do their reading in the old-fashioned way. And in 2015, e-book sales dropped in the United States and it’s the same story in UK. Therefore, instead of being replaced, paper book are widely accepted and has been much of priority in reading.
Despite of the advantages, e-books have obvious disadvantages. The disadvantages of e-books generally stem from the hardware you’re reading them on. Reading is a pleasant enjoyment, but the normal computer problems will detract from your reading pleasure, like 4-6 hours of battery life, eye strain of long time staring at the screen.
In contrast, paper book can satisfy you with all the joy you want to find in reading. They can be read anywhere with sufficient light and are perfect travelling companions. More importantly, reading paper book enable the readers to underline passages and take notes, which will cultivate their meditation habits. Paper books also serve as a bridge for interpersonal communication and offer readers different spiritual experience. Two strangers can build a life-long friendship just because of a paper book one holding in his or her hand.
All in all, paper books have their own defining features that can not be substituted by e-books. And paper books were, are and will always be the choice of readers.