Some people say that with the advent of the era of electronic reading, the era of paper reading will die out. Because paper books are difficult to keep and bulky, while electronic readers can keep them for a long time and are easy to carry; Because e-readers are easy to find, and paper books take a lot of time to find; Because e-books are cheap, while paper books are relatively more expensive.
However, while enjoying the convenience brought by e-readers, they did not find any big loopholes in e-books. E-book publishing has not been strictly examined like paper books, and there are many omissions in revision. Some e-books are even full of typos, which makes it difficult to enter. There is no logo between pages, and there is no exquisite paper binding. Paper books are often of high quality.
The electronic reading process lacks the temperature of the book. The era of electronic reading is a fast-paced era, and it is also a simple and impetuous era. The popularity of fragmented and information-based reading is contrary to the essence of reading. Reading is originally an act of pursuing the tranquility and leisure of the inner soul. Is it electronic reading that awakens cultural memory? It is difficult for people to read deeply, pursue reading fast, only seek greed, not deep reading, and have little effect. In front of a bright screen, you can't replace the intimacy brought by turning pages with the feeling of swiping the electronic screen with your fingertips. In this fast-paced era, we should slow down and carry out paper reading to the end.
For paper reading, American historian Barbara once commented that "without books, history will be dim, literature will be lost, science will be paralyzed, and thoughts will stagnate."
Paper reading bears the cultural tradition of the Chinese nation and bears many cultural memories. People can directly feel the long history of China culture, but electronic reading lacks the historical temperature.
The ancients always liked to associate books with tea. Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng had fun betting on books and pouring tea. If we put it today, gambling on mobile phones and computers will always make us feel particularly distorted, not to mention the inconsistency of artistic conception. If tea leaves are spilled on electronic equipment, the losses will be considerable.
Paper reading can better establish the friendship between people. Go to someone's house and see a room full of books. Pick any one to read, borrow one if you want, and return it in time. As a teenager, Gui Youguang, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, "borrowed books full of shelves, sang loudly and sat silently". He has a good relationship with the owner of the book. At the same time, a book is only a few tens of dollars, and others will not have too much concern when borrowing it, while electronic products are expensive, and others generally will not borrow them.
Looking at foreign countries, in Canada, people like to visit bookstores and send their families to the library. On the subway in the west, people take out their books as soon as they get on the subway, but in China, they use mobile phones instead. The craze of low-headed people comes from this, and we should call on people to slow down and read on paper.
In the era of new technology, each of us is inevitably surrounded by the wave of digitalization. Paper books represent traditional culture, and e-books represent new technologies, both of which can be preserved. We don't need to explore electronic reading, but each of us should slow down, smell the ink fragrance of paper books, listen to the rhythm brought by turning pages at our fingertips, experience the truth brought by paper books, restore the peace of the world and carry on paper reading.