The Advantages of Digital Books
A digital book can be compared to a vegetable garden. Both are practical, economically stable, and rewarding to the owner. The owner can enjoy a variety of new things and have the many benefits that come with something so practical. On the contrary, traditional books can be compared to a flower garden. The owner can also enjoy something beautiful, but it is hard to maintain, has many complications, and is more expensive than a vegetable garden. Traditional books are beautiful and authentic, but they are also expensive to the economy and the environment, and overall impractical. Ebooks may have some disadvantages to them, but they also have many benefits that overcome the advantages of traditional books: they are economically beneficial, use less environmental resources, and are more consumer friendly than traditional books. Vegetable gardens are cheaper and can be used for many years. They have the potential to be very practical. Ebooks are exactly the same. They are much cheaper than print books and have a massive amount of benefits economically speaking. Because ebooks are more convenient and are less expensive than individual, traditional books, they are more likely to benefit the economy more than print books. In consonance with the website ghostwriter-needed, “most ebooks
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Ebooks have a considerable amount of advantages: They are economically beneficial, they use less environmental resources, and are extremely user-friendly. If people purchase and use more ebooks than traditional books, they will be economically better off, and they will be contributing to the environment. They also will have an easier time using the ebook due to the abundance of tools available on an ebook and it’s portability. Ebooks are the vegetable garden of the technology world. They are practical, yet they are still beautiful and rewarding to the
These people sound pretty credible so their opinions would most likely have more of an affect on someone than those of an 18 year old beginning college. Carr quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, a man whose vision was failing bought a typewriter because he found that his writings and ideas being put to screen were just failing. He decided to go out and purchase a typewriter so that the ideas could pour out of him and straight to the paper, which changed the way he wrote, his “tight prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic”. Technology is a major improvement and successful help to us all, but Carr believes it has an underlying side effect almost. It’s unnoticeable to the human mind, we just adapt to the slow mental changes without being aware of it at
In the books society and society today, both worlds thrive and rely on technology. “ ‘It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed... It’s only two thousand dollars’”-Mildred (Bradbury, 20). The books society relies on the company of the walls in order to not think about things that are happening outside.
Is Bradbury's Fantasy Becoming Our Reality Technological growth is one of the biggest moving innovations in our everyday lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury speaking about the future society where books are outlawed and no one thinks for themselves. Bradbury speaks about the struggle that certain characters have trying to involve books back into society. In our everyday lives, we are constantly flooded with social media and always have a need to pick up our phones. Children are beginning to learn keyboarding at a much younger age, as opposed to working on their penmanship.
Books are everywhere, with public libraries in every town and libraries in every school. And due to advancing technology, books are available on tablets and ‘ebooks’, allowing people to read great works of literature without wasting paper and killing trees. In contrast, in some places information is restricted. One great example is China and North Korea, where, similar to Fahrenheit 451, information is restricted to state propaganda, and the people don’t have access to information, but think they do.
Reading an ebook or a web page requires the same interpretation skills and provides a growth in your vocabulary, similar to reading a physical book. Online tools such as spell check, web dictionaries and thesauruses help to build knowledge and improve finished compositions, not tarnish them. This next generation is exposed to endless opportunity to search and discover humanity’s collective knowledge at their fingertips. They have to ability to read articles upon articles, and webpages upon web pages for pleasure on everything from poisonous spiders to the history of soccer. Why criticize an advanced way to gather information?
In his book Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson aims to persuade the readers into believing that technology has had a positive impact on our society and the World as a whole. He claims that technology has improved our retention rates, allows us to write and think with global audiences and even improves our senses. How does he persuade us to believe his claims? He gives us many examples of people and their inventions, and how these inventions have had positive impacts on our society. One example he gives us is Ory Okolloh, a woman who created a website that played an important role during the disputed presidential elections in Kenya in 2007.
Mildred even asks, “Why should I read? What for?” (Bradbury). Ray Bradbury’s predictions are wrong. Technology is beneficial for society in general, but more importantly, for students.
The next few generations may see a steep tendency towards technology and away from written literature. Even if books are still a prominent part of our society, people are more inclined to read on tablets and/or computers instead of paper books. One reason that Bradbury may have feared modern technology replacing books is because the value of books is so
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato. This quote shows the importance of books. If there were to be a world without books, the most important book I would keep would be Fahrenheit 451. This book would be important to keep because it would show us what would happen if books were outlawed.
(Name: Farah Nadira binti Aznoor Hisham) OUTLINE TITLE: eBook vs. Textbook ORGANISATIONAL PATTERN: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence VISUAL AID: Power point slides GENERAL PURPOSE: to persuade my audience SPECIFIC PURPOSE: to persuade my audience that eBook bring more benefits to people than textbook CENTRAL IDEA: Making textbook caused many trees are being cut down which affect our ecosystem so we have to switch from using textbook to eBook in order to save our trees.
"The iPad is much more lightweight than a book bag full of textbooks, notebooks, and binders. Students can cram all that into the iPad and easily take it with them anywhere" (17 Pros and Cons). This means students can do their work anywhere they please and all their work is on one device making it easier to find material or resources through the iPad. By having students do their work on the iPad, it allows the teacher to stay more organized and
Theme: Education Narrow : The cause and effect of online learning Lai Che Hui (1001541419) Loo Yee Qi (1001541775) Now a days, a lot of people of the frequently to use technology or electronic products in any way or any time and of course most important is the Internet. A lot of schools started to use online learning to replace traditional paper based teaching method and submit the assignment. Basically, online learning had been widely accepted and practiced throughout the world. There’s tones of online learning student around the world, but did they ever think about what are the benefits they actually enjoyed on online learning?
Digital Media is any media that is enclosed in a machine and is a readable format. Anybody can create digital media, it can be viewed, shared changed and preserved by anyone on computers. Examples of digital media include; mobile phones, compact discs, digital video, digital television, e-book, internet, minidisc, video games, the World Wide Web, e-Commerce and many interactive media. (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media) Digital media is often contrasted with print media.
Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.
Online shopping has nowadays become a widely spread way of shopping among people on different continents and in different countries. Its popularity is constantly on the rise considering the spread of Internet technologies and the increasing share of online shops in the retailing business. Online shopping activities are gaining wide spread as far as they tend to provide the consumers with numerous benefits and increase the convenience of buying without leaving the house. The popularity of online shopping grows due to a range of reasons, including its convenience as well as time- and money-saving potential.