IS THE INTERNET A SUBSTITUTE FOR BOOKS
... the genuine information from the others, then we are surely in an advantageous position. Most of what is on the Internet is only about 15 years old. If you want more, you must have a full-service library. The Internet is everywhere but it is not portable as books are. The future may permit us the luxury of having information on our laptops and with wireless connectivity and we may be spared the hassles of going to the desktop, but for now the vast majority of readers – even online readers – still want books. Most search engines throw up data that may be stale or not updated, but with the right books, the information we get is the latest. Quality control does not exist when you access information on the internet because any information could be posted on the internet at a very low cost. The Internet is like a vast un-catalogued library. We have now the availability of electronic books or e-books in short on the Internet, which has become the center of attraction in recent days. Try reading an e-book reader for more than half an hour; headaches and eyestrain are the best results. Besides, if what you’re reading is more than two pages long, most often, you will end up printing the pages on a printer for easy readability. In a recent survey of those who buy electronic books, more than 80% said they like buying paper books over the Internet and not reading them on the Web. We have nearly 1,000 years of reading print in our bloodstream and that’s not likely to change in the next 75. Granted, there will be c...