DIFFERENCES BETWEEN E-BOOKS AND PRINTED BOOKS

By: Mia Tomic and Andrea Stanojevic

E-BOOKS

Some people say that e-book is the perfect solution because it’s light and it can store more books than perhaps a handbag or backpacks.~However, it isn’t as practical as it seems.

DISADVANTAGES OF E-BOOKS

E-books are harder to read for older people who have vision problems because the letters are usually small and your eyes ache from looking at the screen all the time.As e-books do not have pages, there are a few other things found in e-books which are different than in printed books. There aren’t headers or footers in an e-book. Footnotes become “end notes”. Most e-Readers at this time do not accept charts, tables and columns, so these must be converted into an image first.

COMMON MISTAKES

Of course comparing these two isn’t very reasonable because they are very different .You should read what you prefer because you can’t make an e-book a printed one and the other way around.E-books are different from printed books, so do not attempt to make your e-book look like an exact copy of printed book, otherwise you’ll only frustrate yourself by creating a poorly formatted, unreadable e-book.

PRINTED BOOKS

Printed books are better if you want to mark where you stopped reading a chapter ,and because they have a content table (most of the times).However the disadvantage is that they are heavy and you can’t store a reasonable amount of books in your handbag.

CONCLUSION

So which are better?It all depends on a person’s taste.Someone might like e-books or printed books better.

Still the thing they have in common is that they both are books, just in different formats, the story doesn’t change.