The Priceless Valuable Research Paper

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The Priceless Valuable In education, book is the most important and necessary materiality, which all students need in order to absorb knowledge. Book is a precious treasure that contains the priceless value – knowledge - that everyone wants to own. In human history, books have been invented since ancient times. During the second and eighth century, when the techniques of making papers from Chinese’s culture quickly influenced all over the world, the humanity learned this technique to produce papers for the consumers. In the process, papers were taped together and sold for the writers to write or draw on it. At this moment, due to the development of technology and modernization, everybody can easily purchase a book in different version that …show more content…

A printed book consists a quantum of pages that bound together. Depending on the subjects of the book, it will contain 200 to 300 pages or even 1000 to 2000 pages. As the more pages the book has, students must comprehend the more amount of knowledge and the book’s weight is gained. In details, while a student has one to two classes per day, he or she has to carry one or two printed books to class. Without the weight of other school and personal supplies, the minimum weight of the books that a student has to bring is around five to ten pounds per day. Additionally, since the cost of printing papers is highly increasing, the purchasers will need to pay for a higher price. However, most college students are unable to pay for new college printed books after they attended classes. This means that they can hardly focus on learning and absorb the knowledge. Although the printed book may be less distracting than e-book, it still has the disadvantages of the cost and …show more content…

Instead of being printed on paper, the information is uploaded online on the publisher’s website. Students can go to the website and login to read it everywhere at any time that they need. Additionally, e-book is sold online for lower price than printed book and students can purchase anytime. Without printing papers, not only the company can save billion dollars, but also do the students. Another key point, e-books is weightless. College students, who have a smartphone, can read directly on their phones; others, who do not have smartphone or laptop, can go to the campus’s library or computer lab to read the online book version. The learners do not have to carry the heavy printed books around the campus as long as their device can connect to the internet, then they can read it easily and effectively. Furthermore, e-book’s format provides some helpful tools as highlighter, translator, and easer that the users can use in order to add, remove, or take notes

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