Maintaining public libraries is a waste of time since digital technology is now replacing their function. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Maintaining public libraries is a waste of time since digital technology is now replacing their function. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Library is a social institution. With the advancement in technology, the trend of reading has influenced substantially. Some people assert that libraries are no more essential aspect of learning. However, others are against this view point. This essay will scrutinize both virtues and will suggest a solution for this sophisticated issue.

To embark with, the way of reading has been altered largely in the last decade. As digital equipments like e-books, kindle, online blogs makes it easy to read anywhere and anyplace. To epitomize, kindle is omnipresent. The sale of kindle from Amazon has revealed the interest of the new generation. Moreover, plethora of authors update online journals for the convenience of the readers. Still, this phenomenon does not diminish the need of libraries.

On the contrary, Library is still a prime destination for majority of people to read and borrow books. For instance, a recent study of The Times of India has shown that the Extension Library of Ludhiana issue 1000 books per day, which in turns manifest the priority of library. Apart from this, individuals enjoy to read the printed books instead of the e-books which causes a fatigue of eyes. Not only this, public libraries offers a wide variety of books including plenty of subjects in a systematic way. It lend a helping hand in browsing.

Mulling over the topic, it is a undeniable fact that digital technology has truly modified our reading habbits. Despite of the fact, one cannot declare library as an unnecessary place or a waste of time.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 308, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'enjoy reading'.
Suggestion: enjoy reading
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Line 5, column 487, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a systematic way" with adverb for "systematic"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...y of books including plenty of subjects in a systematic way. It lend a helping hand in browsing. ...
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Message: Did you mean 'lends'?
Suggestion: lends
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, so, still, apart from, for instance, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1296.0 1615.20841683 80% => OK
No of words: 254.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10236220472 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74595503979 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637795275591 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.2975951904 69% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1584904399 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.0 106.682146367 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.1111111111 20.7667163134 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.10004040763 0.244688304435 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0285067479896 0.084324248473 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364593510398 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0640150819257 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451688643049 0.056905535591 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 50.2224549098 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.3001002004 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.1190380762 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.

Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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