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The Pros & Cons of Using E-Books

by Laura Pecoraro

Social Informatics, Summer 2013

On the other hand...

They can improve people’s access to limited and out-of-print materials.

They are more environmentally friendly than printed books.

There is less expensive, less permanent damage if you happen to drop a paper book on the floor or in a puddle.

Depending on how good you are at manipulating a screen, paper is better for flipping back and forth between pages.

You don't have to worry about recharging the battery of a printed book.

They can give people who don’t have time to visit a library or bookstore or can’t due to disabilities a more convenient way to access books in general, thus also granting them greater opportunities to read more.

There are many

advantages to

using e-books...

They can allow text size to be adjusted at will to make the act of reading easier for people like seniors whose eyesight may be limited.

There are greater opportunities for distraction on the Internet with an e-book.

You do not own an e-book; What you purchase on places like Amazon.com or BN.com are licenses to read an e-book, and DRM restrictions prevent you from being able to read books purchased from Amazon on a Nook and vice versa. Moreover, you cannot share e-books with a friend, and in 2009 Amazon remotely erased copies of the novel 1984 from some people’s Kindles, ironically giving rise to Big Brother-esque concerns over corporate control and individual privacy.

They offer hypertext capability so that you can look up the definition of a word just by touching the screen, and give people the ability to instantly search an entire text for a particular word or key phrase.

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