Paper v.s. Plastic

So my friend Rowan over at http://popculturefordays.blogspot.com/ and I are having a little friendly competition. We each took a side to see which was better, reading from a paperback book or a tablet. So after you read my side of the argument go over to her blog and see what she has to say. So with books I personally prefer to read on a tablet for many reasons. Tablet are better because they are so much more transportable and are so much easier to use.

Reading books on a tablet is so much nicer than using hard copies, with tablets you take books anywhere you go and as many as you want. With hard cover books they take up so much space and are decently heavy so if you want to read when you are on a trip you can only really bring one or two hard cover books. Now with tablets however, you can bring as many as you want because all of the books are stored on one device, so you don’t have to lug around a hundred books with you wherever you go. Also when you want to find an older book you don’t have to go searching through a huge pile of books you just have to search the name of the book.

Another reason why tablets are so much better than books is because they are easier to use. Now I know what you are thinking, “how is a tablet easier to use than a normal book?” well here is how. First off if you want to take notes you don’t have to end up destroying the book you are reading since most tablets come with a feature to take notes with.  Another thing that tablets make easier is reading at night. If you are using a hard copy and want to read at night you either need to have a lamp on the book at all times or figure out how to gain night vision. With most tablet now a days they come with a back light so you don’t have to worry about not being able to read at night.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love to read a hard cover book from time to time but it is just son inefficient. Books decay and tare over time, but with tablets you don’t have to worry about that. That is why I believe it is better to read on a tablet than from a hard cover book.