Some people think that printed book are no longer necessary in this digital era as all writings can be stored electronically. Others think that printed books still play important roles. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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Some people think that printed book are no longer necessary in this digital era as all writings can be stored electronically. Others think that printed books still play important roles. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

In the digital revolution, with the advance of phones and tablets, e-books have become a popular reading tendency. Still, there’s something about the feel of an old-fashioned paper book. In fact, people differ greatly in their views as to whether or not the printed books would be superseded by the e-books. I personally think that the traditional paper books will be still of necessity, but the digital books will have advantageous more in some cases.

No doubt that the physical books could actually give people a feel to what they are reading. The feel, which simply is the sense of ownership or even the unique smell of the pages, is seen as a motivation encouraging people to read and think in-depth. To be more specific, if a reader holds a paper book, they easily can note, draw, highlight, mark, remind and so on. Thus, the book could become easier to understand and remember. In addition, this visualization and summarization of content also enhance re-reading of the reader to acquire more deeply knowledge. However, the printed books have some cons, such as it is bulky to carry around-loss of mobility, less economical and susceptible to environmental damage due to paper production.

The aforementioned disadvantages of traditional books are the advantages of e-books. The most salient merit of this is conveniently accessible for the user. E-readers now can be read practically anywhere on anything. Particularly, the digital books provide an excellent opportunity to access more knowledge for more people thanks significantly cheaper than the paper books. To exemplify this point, I live in Vietnam, the bookstores here have a very small English language selection, and it's not enough to satisfy my reading needs. When e-books appeared, that have meant no postage, no heavy suitcases full of books, no waiting 4-5 weeks for books from Amazon, or lost books.

Overall, my stance is that printed books and e-books are not mutually exclusive. Books in whatever format a person uses are invaluable tools for learning, passing on knowledge and philosophies, and entertainment. As long as we get to read, that's a win.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 239, Rule ID: WHETHER[4]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; whether or not; as to whether
...t, people differ greatly in their views as to whether or not the printed books would be superseded b...
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Line 7, column 241, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...tertainment. As long as we get to read, thats a win.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, so, still, thus, as to, in addition, in fact, no doubt, such as, in some cases

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1797.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16379310345 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95569270535 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586206896552 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0215509743 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5789473684 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3157894737 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.89473684211 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281450634976 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0866619420723 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579233069725 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18048346617 0.151304729494 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541727672406 0.056905535591 95% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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