Some people think that printed books are no longer necessary in this digital era as all writing can be stored electronically. Others think that printed books still play important roles. Discuss both views and give your opinion
In this era of digitalization where information is increasingly stored electronically, the significance of printed books has been placed under considerable scrutiny. While some claim that they are obsolete, others argue that the role of printed materials is nonetheless indispensable. This essay aims to shed light on both perspectives before reaching a final conclusion.
On one hand, there are sound reasons supporting the eventual replacement brought about by digital storage. First and foremost, there are various electronic platforms facilitating such process, including iCloud and Google drive. This allows nearly all written documents to be stored and accessed, which is the reason why many libraries are downsizing their physical storage capacity and incorporating digital resources. What is more, the surging popularity of reading apps as well as electronic notes also indicates a shift in users’ preference of means to access written information. An apposite example for this is the use of Amazon reader, which allows users to conveniently search for and access thousands of books. In combination, these factors seem to have attenuated the value of printed books.
On the other hand, according to some, the vital role of physical books should not be overlooked. While also serving the ultimate purpose of storing and sharing information, physical copies are not bound to the prerequisite conditions for the access of electronic books, such as electricity and the Internet. This means only printed books could be used mountainous areas or far-flung regions where infrastructure is inadequate. Furthermore, printed materials can also maintain their function without being plagued with possible health risks such as myopia and the reading experience is less likely to be adulterated with side attractions such as computer games on electronic devices. Finally, due to security reasons, some documents are best saved in physical forms. This explains why certain classified documents related to military secrets for instance, exist in physical files and arranged in folders.
Having considered the aforementioned arguments, it is clear that the usefulness of physical books belie those deem them unnecessary. From my point of view, both electronic and physical means of information storage are useful and it is down to the specific condition that one should decide which one is more apt.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, if, look, nonetheless, so, well, while, for instance, such as, as well as, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 365.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58904109589 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01517274035 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602739726027 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0905775219 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4705882353 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.29411764706 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240834880694 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0731695762904 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573185962631 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146216092264 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662840511329 0.056905535591 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 78.4519038076 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.