Why printed books win the battle!

- March 10, 2022

There are numerous debates and conversations on the internet over whether printed books or e-books are the better reading medium. E-books, without a doubt, have a number of key characteristics and benefits, such as access to the complete library, easy portability, the availability of a dictionary, statistics, and so on. You can even read with one hand on a crowded train and put your time to good use. However, it has been discovered that people's enthusiasm for printed books has not perished, and they continue to read them frequently, if not exclusively.

When Amazon released its first e-reader almost a decade ago, publishers began to fear that digital books would take over the world, and for a time, that concern looked well-founded. Amazon's business was booming, e-book sales had increased by more than 1,200 percent. Bookstores were hit hard, and print sales were down. However, there has been a startling increase of printed books in the previous few years. Print books are now increasingly being published and e-book sales have slipped.

Alexander Alter, a reporter, says she prefers and reaches for a kindle or online read because it allows her to keep all of her books on a single device that she always has with her and finds it more convenient, but she also says that, while technology has advanced and enabled us to read books online, she still prefers print books. She expresses her opinion on the subject, stating that she considers print reading to be far more soothing and engrossing and she gets an immersive experience. She likes the particular smell of the book and feels more connected to the plot. She is enthralled by the crinkly yellow pages. Whenever she has some time for her-self she prefers going for print reading instead of e-reading.
According to the Pew Study Center's research and survey, 65 percent of Americans, or two-thirds, read a print book in the previous year, which is more than double the share who read an e-book (28 percent) and more than four times the share who consumed book content via audio book (14 percent).

Furthermore, nowadays, everyone spends so much time in front of screens that when they want to read, they prefer to do so offline, giving their eyes a break.

Colorful drawings, artistic effects and imagery from the narrative interest children more in printed books, help them follow and inspire them to keep reading, something we don't see in e-books like the kindle. This demonstrates that, despite having easy access to advanced technology such as online reading via Kindle and other platforms, individuals still prefer to read paper books for a variety of reasons.

To summarise, A kindle is very important, Infact a cheap and handy alternative, but it cannot replace the love and feeling that a printed book can elicit in us, which is why printed books win the battle, despite the fact that e-books have more advantages.