Disadvantages Of Books

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Books are no longer important. "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." Anna Quindlen (1998). Books are so important even when time passes. Furthermore, books always be like a friend that never lets you down. Nowadays, it seems like internet spread in everywhere—all people now are using internet instead of books to reach whatever they want to know or do. To be cultured, knowledge, and acquainted with everything, a normal person should have at least read through 6,000 books in a lifetime—30 books each year, whereas actually there are almost 130 million books that have been published in the history of humanity (The Book of Life n.d). While, some people may say that the internet …show more content…

All people are using the internet for whatever they want nowadays. Consequently, people use it even to study and read. It has an enormous number of material. People can use the internet anytime they want for it is with them on the cellphones all the time. Consequently, People can easily find anything they want from the internet. However, Books are a dependable reference. It is true that the internet may have a lot of advantages, but it is not trustworthy. People need to search very hard to find the truth, and whether they can trust this info or not while books are so trustable. Books are edited by many people who really know what they wrote, they may be scientists, doctors, professors or people have a degree in this field. Therefore, books go through a lot of stages to be published while the internet allows whoever wants to put something online to do that—no matter who is he/she or whether the information is authentic or not! Porup (2014) is an American novelist has indicated that in a perfect world for a book to be published it has to go through editing steps before being published, and there are at least four people to edit the book before being published. In publishing a book, there should be a story editor, a line editor, a copyeditor, and a proofreader. In addition, sometimes it needs more than four people to make sure that the information is real and right. What is above is just an example of the novel’s book. For sure it will need more of specialists than that if the book was a science book or informative book, etc. As a result, books come after a really hard work, from a professional people who spend a lot of time to edit a book more than once. Books are steady and

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