E-BOOKS C2

After thousands of years using paper for books, now, we have been viewing how our paper friends have their days limited. The cause? The new technologies: the digital book or e-book. More and more, the new type of book wins sphere respect the ‘’ancient’’. But, what are the advantages and disadvantages of e-books?

On the one hand, the digital book is smaller than the traditional, and can keep hundreds of books! Besides, although that’s illegal, people can download a lot of titles for free. Nevertheless, if you want to pay, you can buy the book you want in some websites. In addition, if you have an e-book you needn’t buy more paper books and, consequently, you’re environmentally friendly.

On the other hand, some people think that have an e-book in hands isn’t ‘’real’’, it isn't seem the traditional and it doesn’t produce the same ‘’satisfaction’’ than a real book. Moreover, they complain the price. A normal e-book can cost around 70 or 80 Euros. However, this argument is a little poor because, if you like reading; you will spend much money buying normal books in your life. That is, later an e-book will result cheaper.

In my opinion, e-books have a lot of advantages and the idea of be environmentally friendly is very important forme. In my view, the price is not important because I read a lot, but the sensation of having a paper book in hands is bigger. Nevertheless, I’m absolutely in favor of e-books and I think that the digital and the traditional book can coexist and live together.

Jordi Saura Nadal    2n B