Governments should not invest in funding public libraries as computers could fulfill all the functions of them. Agree or disagree?

Today, computers are everywhere and they make it easier to get information, movies or even books. Traditional printed books getting obsolete because of digital files and e-readers. Nevertheless, there are still books, magazines and journals in printed versions available. In my opinion, governments should continue to support public libraries because they have various social benefits the internet cannot provide. Therefore, I will highlight three reasons in the following paragraphs.

To begin, libraries are not only storage place of old and dusty books. They offer various other services such as book circles, reading events, presentations and even a movie gallery. They are a place where people can meet each other, enjoy spare time, discover new things and share opinions. In addition, libraries are also a social meeting point for kids. There they can explore new topics, play games and develop their knowledge as well as their social skills.

Second, there are not just previews of the book you are interested in, you can take it in your hands and have a closer look before you lend it out. The physical aspect is something that the internet can not provide. And afterwards, if you don't like the item you choose, you can bring it back an choose another one, without waste of money or space in your bookshelf.

Third, public libraries are an important source of knowledge for education. Moreover, they offer free access for everyone who is interested. Only if you want to take something with you, you need to be a member. Therefore, even poor people or their kids have access to education and can afford the membership fee.

To sum up, public libraries are an important source of knowledge and education. Their benefit to the society should not be measured on the governments expenses. Furthermore, they have to be seen as place for social interaction and equality of people.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, if, look, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, still, therefore, third, well, in addition, such as, as well as, in my opinion, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.0286738351 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 52.1666666667 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1584.0 1977.66487455 80% => OK
No of words: 310.0 407.700716846 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10967741935 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63900936858 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574193548387 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.4157150197 48.9658058833 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 79.2 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.7 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0854200087647 0.236089414692 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.029900635233 0.076458572812 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461385659305 0.0737576698707 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0554024422688 0.150856017488 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415855584027 0.0645574589148 64% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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