{"id":3092,"date":"2013-07-10T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:47:58","slug":"17-reasons-to-switch-to-ebooksereaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/17-reasons-to-switch-to-ebooksereaders\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Reasons to switch to eBooks\/eReaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m tired of evangelizing eBooks\/eReaders<\/a> in person and I guess I’ll do a lot more good by writing this so that you can share it next time you want to convince a friend to live in the year 2013 and stop the mad romanticism about the handicapped physical books, it’s just ludacris reading a book on paper unless it has no digital form.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an ever growing list of why I prefer eBooks to physical books<\/strong>
\n(got more reasons, leave a comment below)<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. They are cheaper.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    They are available immediately, no need to order, wait, or move physically to get them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    They never get lost.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    They don’t take any space, or weight, this brings many added benefits to the world:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    4.1. You can have a library of thousands of books with you wherever you are, on different devices (since they can be stored in the cloud)<\/p>\n

    4.2. You will free a lot of shelve space at home\/office, which also means less dust being created at home.<\/p>\n

    4.3. If all students were forced to use eBooks they wouldn’t have to carry such heavy backpacks which can deform their spines.<\/p>\n

    4.4. If all students used eBooks exclusively, there would be CO2 emission reductions since that’s a lot of weight that doesn’t have to be transported by cars\/buses\/trains.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. You can read them on different devices: e-readers, computers, smartphones.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
    2. \n

      You can copy and paste.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. \n

      If you lend them you never have to beg your friend to give the book back, it comes back to you automatically.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. \n

      You can search inside them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    5. \n

      If you don’t know the meaning of a word, a dictionary is always there for you, just touch\/click the word in question.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    6. \n

      The same book may come in different languages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    7. \n

      You can change font types, font sizes, color of the screen, margins, line spacing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    8. \n

      You can have lots of bookmarks, you can navigate your bookmarks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    9. \n

      You can read them with the light turned off.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    10. \n

      You can read them with one hand, turning pages is effortlessly. Awesome when you go out for a walk and you have only one hand available.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    11. \n

      No more wrinkled, stained, or broken pages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    12. \n

      You can share your highlights on social networks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    13. \n

      You can open a web browser right from the book if there’s a web reference.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    14. \n

      There’s no such thing as “out of print”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    15. \n

      It learns your reading speed and tells you how much time left you have on the current chapter or the whole book.
      \n\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      need more reasons?
      \nor you will keep reading books because you like the smell of paper, even though there’s really a lot of stinky books out there.<\/p>\n

      are you still using cassette tapes, vinyl discs, hell are you still using CDs?<\/p>\n

      Make the switch<\/a>, you will enjoy reading like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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