More and more people prefer to read ebooks rather than paper books. What are the reasons for this? What problems can this cause for libraries?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
In this modern era, majority of people favour reading digital books instead of physical books.
This essay will discuss various attributes for this trend and also discuss its effect on libraries.
There are some compelling reasons for a consumer to prefer e-books over paper-based books. One of the primary factor is the cost. Ebooks are way cheaper than paper books, so consumers can save a lot of money. For instance, an e-book usually costs around 20% to 30% less than a paper book. Another major reason for e-book preference is that it saves space required to shelve physical books, as digital books are stored in computers, laptops or other devices such as kindle etc., it doesn’t requires an external space. Furthermore, while travelling, people don’t need to carry bunch of different paper books, instead they just need to carry one device, which can store numerous e-books. In addition, ebooks are environment friendly as there are no paper used and no trees cut.
The trend of modern consumer’s preference for digital books over paper books is causing problems for libraries. To fulfil the demand of modern and technology savvy customers, libraries need to transform their entire infrastructure by investing in computers, gadgets, softwares, computer network, etc., which indeed is very costly. Moreover, customer oriented e-book subscription services are coming up, which are cost effective and user-friendly. For instance, Amazon Kindle subscription service is already a huge hit in the market, with pocket friendly subscription plans and user-friendly ways to access digital books. In addition, some physical libraries may face closure due to increase competition from digital libraries, which have much less operating cost as compared to physical libraries.
In conclusion, cost effectiveness and portability are the key reasons people prefer using ebooks over paper books. Due to increase competition from digital libraries and online subscription e-book services, physical libraries may face closure in near future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 24.0651302605 37% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1752.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 314.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57961783439 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8354538922 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566878980892 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2933059172 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.5 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.625 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4375 7.06120827912 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23814472889 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878980076286 0.084324248473 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063842776836 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141451813394 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307897573882 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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