10 reasons why students should use Ebooks

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From cost to portability, there are various reasons why students can benefit more from ebooks than traditional textbooks. Although ebooks have disadvantages, the advantages tend to weigh down the disadvantages (except if you are a student that likes to stick to traditional textbooks). Listed below are ten reasons why students should consider purchasing ebooks for school and how students may specifically benefit from them.

10 advantages of ebooks: 

1. Ebooks tend to be much more affordable than regular textbooks. Ebooks can be purchased at half the price of a regular textbook and students may also have the choice of renting out ebooks online for an even cheaper price. With the high cost of schooling, cheaper ebooks can definitely benefit a student financially.
2. Ebooks are delivered instantaneously and may be purchased as long as you have your computer or cell phone in hand. This may be convenient for students who need immediate information before a test or to do a homework assignment and do not have access to a physical textbook. Within minutes of an online ebook purchase, the needed information becomes accessible.
3. Ebooks take up less space and do not weigh as much as a single textbook. With a laptop, tablet, or even a cell phone, you may access your ebook at anytime without having to worry about carrying heavy textbooks. Multiple ebooks can fit into one device!
4. An ebook owner does not have to worry about damages to a rental book and getting fined once the book is returned. 
5. Ebooks usually contain more interactive study material as well, such as videos, audio, and electronic flashcards.
6. Ebooks are convenient if a student wants to print out a specific page to take notes in class or to pass it on to another classmate.
7. Print sizes on ebooks can be enhanced for people with bad eyesight and is convenient even for teachers, who want to create an over-sized image of an ebook on a projector for a class lecture.
8. It is easy to bookmark certain pages and annotate on ebook pages without anything being lost.
9. Ebooks may be accessed without Internet, which makes it easy for students who want to read their ebooks in a car or in the outdoors. 
10. Ebooks have several functions that can or cannot be done with a traditional textbook. Students are allowed to highlight and annotate on their ebooks and ebooks provide a search engine that helps students easily navigate through pages and find a specific word or phrase through the entire text book. 

But there may be some disadvantages...

• With the apps and the Internet being available on the same electronic devices that are used to access ebooks, students may become easily distracted while using their ebooks. In many cases, students do not even get to reading their ebook because they become too focused on other things such as social media sites on the Internet.
• Traditionally, homework assignments from textbooks require students to read through their textbooks in order to find answers to their homework assignments. With ebooks, students do not have to read as much in order to find answers. The search engine from an ebook helps students find a specific phrase or answer immediately without having to skim through pages. The convenient functions of an ebook are believed to make homework assignments for students, "too easy", because students do not have to try as hard to find answers. It saves time, but the student does not gain as much knowledge if they do not have to read much from their ebook.
  
  Although there are disadvantages, the advantages of ebooks are amazing for students! In general, ebooks are convenient, cost effective, and have easy accessibility. 
  
  
  References: successconsciousness.com