Advantages and Disadvantages of ebooks

 

Advantages and 

Disadvantages of 

ebooks

Evaluation of ebooks changed the way people consume information. With ebooks, people can easily buy someone's thoughts and can read comfortably.

As we all know that technology changed our life in every possible way and paper is no exception. More and more people reading ebooks instead of paperback books. Because buying an ebook is hustle-free and most importantly less costly.

You can find anything easily on an ebook. Well, format ebooks have carried some features with them like a table of contents, how many pages are there, pictures, graphics, layout, and everything that is needed just like any other book.

You just need a mobile, tablet, or computer whatever devices you are comfortable with to download and read ebooks because ebook is digital product.

People always like to debate about books. Some people say printed books are better than digital books and some people are like no ebooks are a lot better with so many extra benefits. But ground truth is that more and more are reading digital books this day. Because there are so many tech-savvy people in the world and that's number is growing day by day.

We all know that more and more people are reading electronics books this day. If you don't know this fact before, now you know. So books are no longer just bundles of paper that you can keep in your book store. You can keep your ebooks as PDFs form or you can keep them on Kindle. And there some others format also where you can keep your ebooks.

Now there are a lot of advantages that ebooks carry but some disadvantages ebooks also have. The advantages of ebooks are soo many that you'll find out in this article but there are some disadvantages as well but disadvantages are few compared to advantages.

»13 Advantages of ebooks

●You can carry soo many ebooks on one device. With ebooks, it's the biggest advantage according to me because you can carry thousands of ebooks without any weight problems.

●you can carry ebooks everywhere. You can carry those ebooks everywhere unless there are security issues for carrying electronics devices. Just imagine you need 10 books to carry with you to another place. But with ebooks, you can carry all those books on your mobile phone or tablet in eBook format.

●Easily to updates. If you as an author want to edit or change something or some parts of your ebooks you can simply do that. You just need to edit those texts and after saving the document just give a notification to your buyers that the updated version of that ebooks is available and they can download that updated version.

And with printed books, it's very expensive to do something like that. By doing that takes time and a lot of money.

●No shipping cost. You can download ebooks directly from the web because an eBook is an electronic file. So there is no need to deliver physical books to the customer around the world and don't need to spend lots of unnecessary money as shipping cost.

●ebooks are shareable. You can share those eBooks with anyone. You have the option to share your ebooks with multiple people you like. ebooks offer social features which you can use for sharing, liking and suggestions, and this kind of things are not possible with printed books.

●You can experience augmented reality. With augmented reality, you can embed texts, images with an augmented visual that is three-dimensional. And the visual will pop up on the user's display. Augmented reality is a very advanced feature that gets with ebooks. And augmented reality makes reading ebooks more fantastic.

The user just needs to select the text or image and the image enhanced version will show off on their computers.

●Comfortable with eyes. We are living in a technology world, if there is a problem there Will be a solution. These days eReaders come with the feature where can adjust the light of your eReader according to your eye's comfort.

Many eReaders even offer the dark theme feature, provide lights that won’t hum your eyes during reading, you'll feel like you're reading a paperback book. You can even change the size of texts according to your preference. EBooks readers will ensure that your eyes are taken care of while reading an ebook on a leader.

●Audio and video file support. Audio and video files can be added in an ebook and this feature makes ebooks more engaging. Something some words become very important in that case writer can place an external link and readers can click on the link if they want to know more about the topic. An external link can help the reader to understand any text on that ebook that's important.

Ebooks with audio and video files call multimedia eBooks. And an audio file attached is Wonderful for people who spend a lot of time traveling or for someone more interested in audio than text reading.

●Searchable. Ebooks with searchable features allow readers to jump from one page to another. You can search for a word you are interested in and the ebook will take to that particular word. What a wonderful feature. And it's impossible with a printed book.

●Ebooks are environment-friendly. My favorite reason to consider an ebook to read is that ebooks are environment-friendly. That means no tree needed to cut to make an ebook, unlike a printed book.

Few more environmental benefits of the ebook are that there will no waste after reading an ebook, unlike paper books that end up as landfill waste.

A printed book takes more energy than an eBook to create.

●Speed. The ebook can be downloaded immediately unlike printed books that take time to deliver to your doorstep. And that's a good thing you need to learn something just search for that and if need just downloaded an ebook.

●Print on demand. You can print your eBook if needed.

●Open market. Publishing an ebook is headache-free. You don't need to go to the publisher for your books to be published. You just find a good book publishing platform on the internet. Like Amazon Kindle, the publishing platform is a good one.

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»6 Disadvantages of ebooks

So disadvantages are......

●Effects on eyes. You need to keep your eyes on the screen for a long time to read and understand an ebook. It's difficult for those people set on a computer desk for a long.

And it's a huge problem with reading ebooks. Eye strain, from staring at screens of your computer or mobile phone for too long, has become quite a health problem or more specifically eyes sight problem. But some don't care about the fact and it's also up to you.

If you had a habit of reading at night or in the dark, you might also face health problems likes insomnia. And this a growing problem by the way among tech people.

●You will not feel the book reading satisfaction. In the next coming few years, one thing will most likely disappear and that is turning pages for reading. This is how we all grow up with our paper books. As more and more people growing up by reading ebooks, chances are increasing of disappearing paper books. You may not feel the satisfaction of reading the books the way the human race used to experienced.

●There are chances that you can lose your ebooks files. You can lose your ebook files within your device if you forget to back up your ebooks files in other places. And you may delete your files accidentally from your computer. And this is a pretty big disadvantage in my sense with ebooks that you can face.

●It can be difficult to read ebooks in the sunlight. The focused light of the sun makes it difficult to read an ebook outside. But the paper book is still good to read in the open sunlight.

●You need a device where you can store your ebooks. You need a device to read ebooks and for many people, this is a disadvantage. Because so many people don't own a computer device. An estimated that at least 20% of people face that problem when they wanted to read an eBook. In America, that's several people don't own a device where they can store and read their ebooks.

●You may face a battery down problem during reading. You need batteries to keep your eBooks storage device alive. I've seen many times that people run out of their devices' batteries. And paper books don't require reading.

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