PRINTED BOOKS OR E BOOKS

Can printed books be better than TV?

Good Books make us better men. Not that TV does not help us. Ads make too many interruptions. The good looks of the anchors and their mannerisms distract our attention and makes deciphering of the audio visual communication mutilated. We lose whatever we learn the same moment or on the same day. There may be exceptions. While we have only about 60 TV channels to select from, we have thousands of good books which we cannot complete reading in our life time.

Can E books substitute printed books?

E books are not good substitutes for printed books.

Printed books are convenient to lean on a tree branch in a garden or park and imbibe the writer's insights and original thinking when he wrote his book and subrogate ourselves into the writer's emotional moorings.

P books can be read in trains, at bus stops, in parks waiting for friends.

P books do not need lap tops or other Electronic gadgets. They need not recharge.

E books disturbs concentration of our mind. Our mind may be more wary of how the screen is scrolling, how the cursor is moving etc.

For the purpose of writing, however, computers are more convenient because we can change our notings with ease, move text from top to bottom and finalise our material clean on the same day.

Are there no advantages at all in E books?

Nowadays P books come in small print. We cannot change the font or font size. E books: we can change font and font size to our convenience.

E books are accessible anywhere in the world. Extremely portable. P books in large number are cumbersome.