Can internet reading replace traditional print reading?

Reading is one of the best things you do in your life when you read a helpful content whether in a book or online. You learn new vocabulary, new ideas so your brain works efficiently, you acquire information that helps you gain life skills and your communication with others improves. If you read more, you become smarter, self-reliant, mature, well-informed and consequently you impress others, astound them, assert your dominance among people.

The question here, do you think that internet reading can replace traditional print reading in the future? Let’s discover the answer together.

Printed books have their importance, they can’t be easily faded away and replaced by reading on the internet.

If there are some people who don’t buy printed books for certain reasons may be the content is difficult to understand or useless or boring or they will disagree with the author’s opinion or anything else so they fear to lose the money they pay it for buying printed books and they prefer to read interesting contents online by just paying the internet subscription fees. There are other people in this world, on the other hand, don't have internet access especially in poorer nations where the internet access is unaffordable and they prefer to read traditional print materials. There is a reality no one can neglect it that everyone can have a book, everyone can borrow a book if he can’t afford to buy it but not all people can have internet access.

There are two categories of readers, one category of readers who don’t love to read a long book, they try to stay focus to finish this long book but they get boring so they prefer always to read short topics online while the other category fall in love with the smell of the book and the sound of pages while they are turned, this category don’t care about the length of book’s content but they care more about their passion for reading hundreds of printed books. We should respect each reader's freedom to choose his type of reading whether it is online or printed.

Despite there is a large number of people worldwide read holy Quran, Bible and Torah online but these holy books will remain forever in print and never be replaced by online versions.

Schools and universities around the world depend till now on studying in print more than studying on-screen or on the internet. If you want to learn something, you are significantly better off with print. Maryanne Wolf works at the University of California, Los Angeles, she is a neuroscientist specializes in how the brain reads; she confirmed the brain might slip into skim mode when you’re reading on a screen while it may switch to deep-reading mode when you turn to print.

Books, whether they are audio or Braille books, have significant role in the life of people who are blind or have low vision.

Reading helps you to live a meaningful life whether you read in print or on the internet so keep enriching your mind with reading. It’s not necessary that an entire book changes a person but may be a sentence or a paragraph do. Reading let you gain in just few hours the knowledge of researchers who make researches in several years.

Finally, to answer the question mentioned here, it is really difficult that internet reading replace traditional print reading because both of them have their importance in our life and we need them both.

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