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    This document discusses the advantages of e-books over printed books. It notes that e-books are more portable than printed books as they are flat and lightweight, allowing users to easily carry entire libraries with them. E-books also allow for storing large numbers of books, as the memory capacity of e-book devices can hold gigabytes of data. Additionally, e-books are often cheaper than printed books. The document also highlights that e-books help the environment by reducing deforestation compared to printed books which require cutting down trees for paper production.

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    Eseu Eng

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    This document discusses the advantages of e-books over printed books. It notes that e-books are more portable than printed books as they are flat and lightweight, allowing users to easily carry entire libraries with them. E-books also allow for storing large numbers of books, as the memory capacity of e-book devices can hold gigabytes of data. Additionally, e-books are often cheaper than printed books. The document also highlights that e-books help the environment by reducing deforestation compared to printed books which require cutting down trees for paper production.

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    This document discusses the advantages of e-books over printed books. It notes that e-books are more portable than printed books as they are flat and lightweight, allowing users to easily carry entire libraries with them. E-books also allow for storing large numbers of books, as the memory capacity of e-book devices can hold gigabytes of data. Additionally, e-books are often cheaper than printed books. The document also highlights that e-books help the environment by reducing deforestation compared to printed books which require cutting down trees for paper production.

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    This document discusses the advantages of e-books over printed books. It notes that e-books are more portable than printed books as they are flat and lightweight, allowing users to easily carry entire libraries with them. E-books also allow for storing large numbers of books, as the memory capacity of e-book devices can hold gigabytes of data. Additionally, e-books are often cheaper than printed books. The document also highlights that e-books help the environment by reducing deforestation compared to printed books which require cutting down trees for paper production.

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    Modern digital technologies today can easily substitute almost any analog that

    people had been using for decades or even centuries. Bulky vinyl players have
    turned into tiny iPods, huge TV sets have become super-flat plasma wall panels,
    phones are getting more and more impossible to distinguish from pocket
    computers, and so on. Books have also undergone such a transformation, and
    today many people prefer using an electronic book, or e-book, rather than a
    regular printed one. Why? Because e-books are in every possible way better
    than printed books, no matter what the antique book lovers say.

    The most obvious advantage is portability. If you have been a book lover for a
    long time, you most likely had to carry a book or two with you wherever you go. If
    you could afford carrying a backpack around, it was not a problem; however, if
    you are a lady or a clerk in some serious corporation, most likely you either had to
    fit a book into your purse or folder, or leave it at home. On the other hand, any
    modern e-book is almost flat and light weight, so you can easily carry one—even
    in your pocket. You can read it in any position, and take it anywhere with you. By
    the way, try to make it comfortable to read a printed book while lying on your side
    —it is almost impossible (Snarkynomad.com). With an e-book device, all your
    problems with a book’s weight and shape are solved.

    The next reason why e-books are more preferable is that even a cheap e-
    book device allows one to carry the whole Library of Congress in your
    pocket. Depending on an e-book device’s memory capacity, you can store
    gigabytes of data on your device. The file format is usually not a problem: many e-
    book devices support all popular formats of electronic books, such as fb2, djvu,
    pdf, azw, kfx, and so on.

    Also, electronic books are reasonably cheaper than printed ones, and the
    price depends on which store you buy them at, so in fact you can get a lot of
    books for a humble price. A device costs more than a book, but this difference in
    prices pays off quickly (Spreeder.com).

    We live in a age when ecological problems have turned from unproven scientific
    hypotheses to a disturbing reality. Vanishing of the Amazonian rainforests,
    massive deforestation all over the planet, and the extinction of species of plants
    are only some parts of a larger ecological problem. The industry of book printing
    contributes significantly to global warming, because for the paper on which books
    are printed, they need to cut down trees. There are many books printed on
    recycled paper as well, but their overall percentage is tiny. Therefore, by
    preferring an e-book over a printed one, a customer can actively contribute
    to the matter of saving trees. The less print books you buy, the more trees you
    help to save (Epublishers Weekly).

    If you like old things, then you most likely stand for print books. However, the
    majority of rational people today stand for e-books, and there are several strong
    reasons for this. E-books not only help to save the environment (since they do not
    need paper to be printed on), but they also take up less space, are cheaper, and
    allow owners to carry entire libraries in their pockets, wherever they would go. All
    this proves that choosing an e-book over a printed one is a wise and reasonable
    decision.

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