With the rise of e-books comes the decline in paper books. Some people see this as a good step forward while others do not. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?
With the recent technological advancements, the proportion of e-book users are rapidly increased, resulting in less demand for paper books. While it is argued whether this trend has positive impacts on our life, I will elaborate on both advantages and disadvantages in detail.
On the one hand, by people's reading trend has moved toward the digital era, there are certain drawbacks. Firstly, digital books tempt people to other distractions like visiting websites or looking up links rather than focusing on the book they are reading. To cite an example to this, I personally easily get distracted by other applications, such as messenger, SNS, or even perhaps various mobile games I often enjoy when I read a book through my mobile phone. Secondly, paper books used to be a sort of inspiration. With the disappearance of full of books and topics on the shelf, people are no longer able to inspire and stimulate their imagination. Lastly, reading through a screen instead of a paper would cause more strain of eyes. In other words, digital books are likely to stress our eyes, damaging our vision eventually.
On the other hand, people's lifestyle is certainly beneficial by increased ebook's popularity, especially in the aspect of convenience. The one fundamental advantage is people are released from the weight of physical books carrying for reading. Instead of that, using light, functional electronic gadgets, like a smartphone or tablet, gives people a broad range of access to reading materials without carrying it. Moreover, ebook reader apps have various useful functions that users would love. For example, people can easily search additional information related to the materials of the books or even change the size of the letters or the color of the background of a reader.
In conclusion, people's reading style has definitely changed from paper to digital format, and it has significant impacts on people's life in both negative and positive ways.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, lastly, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, sort of, such as, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20820189274 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80198288387 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599369085174 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5853832473 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.066666667 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1333333333 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1333333333 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279870443671 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0894163763156 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0482460264103 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161211631115 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702507440773 0.056905535591 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.