The Members of the English Speaking Club are Discussing

Our English club members have already begun discussing the topic: "Do you prefer reading e-books to reading paper books? Which are the advantages and disadvantages of e-books?"

Haik Ghazaryan 11

Books have been very popular since ancient times. It’s much easier to use paper books because they are convenient. You can take them with you everywhere. It’s much easier and more pleasant to turn over pages. You can write down notes on the pages. I especially like to keep a field flower in a book and dry it up between pages. But there is one disadvantage in paper books: a great number of trees are cut down in different countries of the world to produce paper and this activity causes ecological problems. Some people don’t realize the value of paper. They can rip it up and throw the pieces away. Electronic books don’t need much space. Electronically created books spare the nature. Many e-books are free while paper books always cost money and sometimes we can’t afford to buy them. I would rather download them from the Internet than pay so much money. On the other hand e-books affect our eyesight more than paper books. In conclusion I would like to mention that it is better to read e-books to save money and our nature.

Aida Grigoryan, 11-1

In our life media is widely spread, so we can’t imagine our day without it. We need the right and important information which we can find not only on the internet but also in different reference books. We deal not only with reference books and text-books but also with fiction books, and I’m sure that reading a paper book is more pleasant. It means that you have it at your hand; you touch it, you turn over its pages... And what happens when you use an electronic book? You harm not only your eyes, but also spend more time which could be spent on doing something more important.
I use e-books only when they are too expensive to buy or when I can’t find them in the libraries, but it happens very rarely. I do everything to avoid it.
We have a media library on our school website and there are a lot of digitized books in it. We do our homework by electronically, we publish our articles in our school web-site. So we use the internet every day and everywhere. That’s why I often want to turn off my computer and go out of virtual life. I want to have live contacts with my friends and paper books because I am very sociable.