Other Opinions about E-books, The English Club Reports

Enoqyan Laura

People say that electronic books have a lot of advantages and disadvantages, but in my opinion the disadvantages are stronger than advantages.

The disadvantages of e-books:

·         Our eyes hurt when we want to read an electronic book with a great number of pages especially fiction books.

·         I don’t like to read electronic books because the computer causes distraction of my attention and I can’t concentrate on the book because the social sites call me and I can’t help chatting with my friends online and takes a lot of time.  

The advantages of e-books:

·         Electronic books are mobile. We can carry our entire library in our pocket

·         I can share my media library with my friends.

·         When we have to move into other houses or apartments we don’t have to carry heavy paper books.

·          We can download e-books instead of going to the library or to different bookstores, and in this way we can save our time and money.

·         While reading –books we can adjust the font size and the background colour according to our eyesight and taste.    

Mkrtchyan Elen

Nowadays electronic books are very popular and are becoming more and more widespread.

The advantages of e-books:

·         E-books are more accessible for everybody in all the countries than paper books. For example, we can read an e-book which has been published in Spain and not a single copy has been brought to Armenia yet.

·         Most e-books are free and we don’t have to pay for them.

·       E-books are more helpful to students because they have to use a lot of books while preparing for their exams, and it is difficult for them to get so many paper books.

The disadvantages of e-books:

·         Reading too many e–books can make our eyesight worse and worse

·         When we want to begin reading an e-book, we also check our e–mail and visit the social sites, and so we sit in front of the computer for a longer time and live a passive life.

Gharakhanyan Gayane

Several decades ago when the computer and the Internet weren’t invented yet, people used to read only paper books. Now our life has changed because of new high technologies. We can read the necessary book on the Internet if we can’t find the ordinary paper book or if the price of ot is too high. On the other hand, when I read an e-book for a long time I have a headache and my eyes hurt.

I think that if the book is not so large, it’s more convenient to read the electronic version, but I generally prefer to read paper books. 

Vardanyan Matevos

I don’t think that Armenians read too many e-books to spoil their eyesight. I don’t think that nowadays Armenians read a great many paper books either. So it is useless to give any opinion about this matter.