Today we will talk about the similarities and differences between regular (paper) and digital (e-) books.
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Let's talk about their similarities and differences.
Paper books are often heavier than electronic ones.
I have a scale. Let's weigh the paper book.
This book weighs 582 grams.
What about the electronic one?
With the case, the e-book weighs 348 grams.
Of course, paper books come in different sizes. Different weights, different sizes.
However, if you, for example, are travelling to work on the train and want to be able to change the book you are currently reading, then an electronic book may be a more convenient option for this scenario.
Many people really like the smell of paper books, they like to turn the pages.
It is actually very pleasant.
Here, the paper shimmers, it is as if it were glossy.
This book is very colourful; it could be a gift edition.
It looks expensive.
Let's see where this book was printed.
In the corner of the page (in the lower right corner of the page) it says that this book was printed in Moscow in 2016.
I bought this book a few years ago in Moldova.
As you can see, it was imported from Russia to Moldova.
The company that imported the book is called "Mold Press Group SRL".
The price is 210 Moldovan lei.
This book is already a few years old, and unfortunately, the gilding has worn off the letters on the cover.
You can see it on the letters "M" in the lower right corner, and "H" in the lower left corner.
Now let's talk about the e-book.
Of course, e-books cost much more than paper ones.
First of all, you need to buy the device itself.
Then, many people, like me, buy a case for the e-book.
My case is blue and it is made of denim.
Its special feature is that it is magnetic.
When I open it, my e-book (my Kindle, my e-reader) turns on.
When I close it, the e-book goes into sleep mode.
You can tell by the picture changing.
You need to buy not only the device itself, in my case a Kindle, but also a book.
The book I'm reading now is called "The Godfather."
Let me show you how to turn pages on an e-book.
There are several ways.
The fastest way is to touch the right side of the screen.
Once.
To go to the previous page (return to the previous page), you need to press the left side of the screen.
Another way is to swipe your finger from right to left.
In this way, we imitate the natural movement, as if I were turning a paper page, from right to left.
This way we get to a new page, or we can return to the previous page from left to right.
A paper book does not have a backlight.
An e-book often does.
In modern e-books, you can often find a backlight function.
I can change the brightness of the screen.
Now the brightness is at zero.
The brightness is at zero, but I can press on the "plus".
Now the brightness is at level 1.
You can also change the colour temperature.
To begin with, I will set the brightness to level 16, and now I will play with the temperature.
At level 24, you can see a more yellow colour, and now I will gradually make it colder.
This way the light is cold... that way the light is warm.
The higher the brightness, the more visible the difference.
To remember where you stopped, you can put a bookmark in a paper book (some object, for example, some card).
You can use it as a bookmark.
There are also bookmarks in an e-book, but they work differently.
You need to press and select the function.
I see several buttons in the upper right corner of the screen.
If I press the plus, I will get a bookmark.
There is no bookmark on the previous page, there is a bookmark on this page, and there is none on the next one either.
Do you use bookmarks, do you like to read?
If you use an e-book, you can use the built-in dictionaries.
For example, I click on the word "other"... and I get to the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language.
Another, here I see the word accent, the explanation of this word, here it says "not this, not this" (synonyms). There is an example of use -
"(To) go to another room".
I can scroll down or go back to the top.
I can also click on the dictionary and change it to, for example, Wikipedia.
Or I can click on the dictionary name and choose another dictionary.
I learn many languages, so I have an English dictionary, a German dictionary, a Japanese dictionary, and also Italian and even French, although I don't learn French, but I learn all the other languages.
I'm a little weary, I'm not in the mood to read right now, so I'll click this button to turn my e-reader off.
This way it goes into sleep mode.
I close the cover.
When I'm bored and in the mood to read, I'll open the e-reader again and continue reading from where I left off.
What book are you reading?
In what language?