If one of your hobbies is reading, is it better to read printed or electronic books?

Books on paper have a symbolic value and we know that they will never stop working, that is, they won’t leave us in the middle of the most exciting part because the battery ran out, but those are not their only advantages. According to various scientific studies, reading print allows you to concentrate more and remember what has been read more easily.

Furthermore, it is easier for the brain to create mental maps when reading printed texts than digital ones, since it can obtain an overall idea through the senses.

Another of the advantages is to mention the emotional aspect, that for those who grew up reading paper books, the characteristics of that experience have a determining weight; it is not just a text, but an object. Seeing and feeling how it wears out and ages with the passage of time, and it is to know a particular design, and a typography, even some errors and failures that make each copy unique.

Not all books are digitized. Just as there are books that are much easier to obtain in electronic format than in print, the opposite is true with others, simply because they are not digitized.

Now let’s look at the electronic side

We could start by mentioning that they take up less space, which at the same time makes them more portable. The ebook is also an excellent alternative for those who are going on a trip. Not only long trips, for which a single book might not be enough, but also for short periods: it is not always possible to know what we will want to read when we are at our destination.

Built-in accessories are also mentioned because many digital reading devices have their own lighting, so they can be read virtually anywhere: there is no bus, no tent, no dark night to prevent it. También suelen incluir programas como diccionarios y traductores, para que ninguna palabra sea un obstáculo y además permite ajustar la letra a la preferencia de los lectores.

They can be read “in the cloud” in this way, if you have the appropriate devices, it is possible to start reading on an e-reader and continue it, for example, on the cell phone apart from the fact that books are easier to get, there are books that on paper are almost untraceable, because they were published long ago and are out of print and we can not fail to mention that we save the planet from wasting paper, drilling more trees and stealing oxygen.

And you, what kind of reader are you?