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Is The Book Actually Dying? As technology moves forward, we see more contents being digitized, such as newspapers, magazines, snail mail letters, music and most of all, books! There is a large number of e-books being published and sold online. Thus, the sales of e-books have risen to a point that it has surpassed the sales of tactile books. Although I disapprove of the digital hijacking of tactile books, but I have to agree that technology has to move forward and along with that, the way people…

For the first six years of my life, I had almost never read; not to my parents or even to myself. It wasn’t that I was unable to—I had to learned to read at a young age, and I did so fairly well—but the act of sitting for hours and flipping page after page after page. It seemed so monotonous. Then I entered first grade, where reading was mandatory. Within the first week of the school year, each student was given a small booklet of passages. Every day someone was called to the teacher’s desk…

The Al Gore’s Nobel peace prize speech story is much better than the video because of many reasons like for example you can picture everything in your mind. People wonder why read the speech and not just take your time reading the speech again and understand everything and not just listening to Al Gore talk without understanding everything he is talking about. Now I will explain why and how the story is better than the video. In Al Gore’s speech he says many large words that many people don't…

There are many ways to portray the theme never judge a book by it’s cover, and i’m sure that most people have been in situations where that rule is important. I myself have had this happen to me. One day my mom and I were grocery shopping and I saw this old dude that kept staring at me. My first thought was, I better get away from this guy quick. Then, my mom went to go to the bathroom and I was all alone. I started going the opposite direction trying to get away from the guy until my mom got…

There are many differences between the textbook chapter in eLearn and the textbook in connect. There also many similarities between the two. First the textbook chapters in eLearn get straight to the point, and it does not use any extra words in the chapter. The Connect textbook uses more in depth wording, and it explains it as much as it can. ELearn is not really the usual textbook, it is more of a step by step process you go through to read and learn the information. To many people this is very…

Paper or Digital Versions Many do not ponder whether or not we would trade our paper copies of books for digital versions. Yet, this is a topic that should be very relevant in a world where technology can do anything for you. Replacing paper copies of books with digital versions could come with many problems both for the author and the reader, taking away the joy from reading. Apps that sell digital books could lose a lot of money on every book they sell. Not to mention how many problems…

Back when I was a child I often visited the library with my mother. I remember my mother taking me to the library every Sunday for story time. One of the librarians that worked in there would read us books and then we were able to check out a book for the week. When I was younger I also had a library card that I kept in my purse. To this day my favorite book is "Brown bear Brown bear" by Bill Martin. I used to check it out all the time and even now! I bring books to work frequently and "Brown…

Module 3 Discussion Question The book, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, can be found in both print and digital edition in the collection at Trent Park Elementary. Both of the formats are able to be located through the library’s online catalog. There is a difference in the appearance, description, location and how the information about the resource is cataloged. Discovery To access both the print and digital edition of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, a search must be done in the library’s…

improved and developed than the past. Now, almost every school has an internet-related education system which considered as new way of education here, and statistically, 74% of people use mobile devices such as a laptop or tablet for eLearning (“15 E-Learning statistics you need to know for 2015”, 2015). They submit their homework or have a discussion with their classmates via learning management systems such as Moodle and Desire2Learn. Due to its convenience and effectiveness, eEducation…

In her persuasive essay “Your E-Book Is Reading You,” Alexandra Alter claims that through the use of digital books, reading books is no longer a private act by consumers. According to Alter, personal reading habits can now be tracked by the publishing world; used to improve book and e-book sales; and shared semi-publicly. Alter contends that in the pre-e-book era, the literature business could not know a person’s unique reading habits (for instance, whether a consumer even finished a book he or…