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Since a couple of years people buy less books and read even more online articles. Why? What are the reasons of the books slowly disappear?

The biggest advantage of Internet is it’s cheaper than buying books. Nowadays people don’t like borrowing any books. Let’s look at children: More likely to children read a draft of the obligatory readings online than going to library and borrow 2 books. The reason is simply: Computer is reachable at most home.

A book has determining advantages, such as it can store much more information than any long webpage. On a site there is no place for e.g. 352 pages of a book. But imagine: Google could eat the text and it would appear in the first search results’ page.

Ask this question yourself: When did you read a newspaper last time?

You turn the computer on and start browsing the world’s breaking news uploaded every minute to various popular pages such as cnn.com.

Somebody lend a book to you, because you want to receive a small amount of datas you have to read the table of contents and browse between 15-20 pages for recieving the info you wanted to know. On internet browsing is more quickly. You only have to hold Ctrl and press F to find something. Mankind is being owned by Google

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A lot of things are those I can’t find via Internet. I ever wanted to learn programming. In a popular language, C++ or Java. There is no determining articles presenting me the basics. Only hard-languaged text on sun.java.com. I had to buy a book and after reading its content I am enough skillful to create useful programs.

Wikipedia – The source of all kind of knowledge. | Image by pizzodisevo via Flickr

Don’t drop out your books, they give valueable experiences but using internet-access makes life much easier, and gathering info via the web is more quicky than any books.