E- Reading

E- Reading

Technology is playing a big role in everyday life; we can find it everywhere and in almost everything. E- Reading is taking a part of education in these days, and it has many advantages that make it spread fast among people around the world. Many advantages can be observed when we look at E- books it saves time, money and it is very easy to be accessed, actually you can have a big library in a 30 inches device!

There is an interesting study that shows how e- reading influences people. According to study results posted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in April of 2012, Americans are reading more with e-readers. Here are some bullets from that study:

·         people who used e-readers read more books in all formats

·         43% of those who used e-readers reported spending more time reading, especially men under age 50

·         E-reader device owners were more likely to buy books, particularly e books

·         Readers preferred e-reading devices for convenience,but they like printed books for reading to kids and sharing with others.

e- Reading

e- Reading

            Electronic books or regular books??.. Since we live in the twenty first century (which is known as the technology century) many people argue that electronic books are better than the regular books. Especially, since we have many devices that can allow us to use the e- books. While others say that nothing is compared to having a regular book and reading it. In my opinion I believe that e-books are by far better than the regular books.

            First, the regular books are very difficult to read whenever you want to read them. One must carry the book wherever he goes because he might have a free time during the day and can read. While e-books are easy to access, you can read it from your phone, computer, iPad and even your iPod. Moreover, you can log in to any public computer and keep reading your book. Second, e-book you have more options than in regular book. For example, if you read an interesting line and you would like to write a long comment on it you can do that easily while in regular books you have a very limited space. Also, in e-books you can put a mark on the last word you read in the page. While in the regular books you only have the chance to mark which page you are on and you might lose that thing and you will be lost. Finally, with e-books you have the chance to enlarge the font size and decrease it to what suit your eyes while in regular books you have to wear reading glasses. 

Mobile Exercises for Reading - Nujeem

Reading is considered to be one of the complicated skill due to level that could be chosen by the teacher. However, to improve your reading skill by yourself, you can apply technology to help. For example, there are many useful and helpful websites and apps, which can be install into your smart phone, and learn the skill that you are missing. Voxy app (for IOS and Android users) is designed to inherence your knowledge in different fields, like politicos, technology, sports.. etc. Unfortunately, it is aimed at Spanish learners, but it will give the opportunity to read wherever you are. If there is an Arabic version of this app, I would recommend my student and my friends to install it and read in what they are interesting in. I hope someday to see this kinds of apps with Arabic version and it would be installed in every phone.
Please try this app and leave comment with your opinion.