Wen Hundred Cities Read

Editing Beyond Time

Introduction

In less than a decade, smartphones and the mobile Internet have infiltrated every bit of people's lives: socializing, film and television, and even reading, and now many people are starting to read books on their phones.

Of course, people are faced with choices: digital reading on cell phones, trendy but with health concerns; paper book reading, healthy but traditional. How should we treat and choose?

The worries of mobile digital reading

Nowadays, people can install more than a dozen high-quality reading software on their smartphones: without running to a bookstore or going to a book-buying website, they can buy an e-book at a very low price (or even for free) and start reading.

Of course there are some problems with digital reading on cell phones: such as susceptibility to distractions, fragmentation of reading, and injury to the eyes.

So even though it's convenient, there are still people who cling to primitive paperback reading, and this is especially true for teenagers.

1. Distractions

It's often hard to concentrate fully on reading when you're on your cell phone.

All sorts of app notifications appear from time to time - informational, social, video, gaming, and so on.

After reading for a while you might be chatting or watching a video, and it's hard to avoid the distraction of information in your phone.

Inadvertently playing games

So even reading books tends to be fragmented, and it's hard to read a book systematically in one go.

2. Injury to the eyes

Reading is very time-consuming, and now the screens of mainstream cell phone tablets are LCD (backlit) or LED (self-illuminated), in which blue light is harmful to the eyes.

Outdoor reading, if there is sunlight, the screen will reflect, reading is very difficult, easy to lead to visual fatigue and even vision loss.

Reading at night will not only make your eyes feel uncomfortable, but in the long run it will damage your vision, such as causing glaucoma.

Long-term cell phone play at night may get glaucoma

Normal indoor reading, studies have found that the number of blinks of the human eye will be reduced, which will lead to dry eyes.

The cost of paper book reading

In comparison, paper books really don't pose a health problem, and you get to experience the heaviness and physical touch that books bring.

Of course, in this day and age, paper books can also seem a bit traditional, but more than that, it's the limitations in terms of cost and convenience.

1. High cost

There are hundreds of thousands of books published on the market every year, and only a fraction of them are good in terms of quality and suitability. Therefore, paper book shopping not only requires a certain ability to recognize, but also higher costs, including physical costs, time costs, opportunity costs and so on.

Paper book shopping is usually done through bookstores or e-commerce platforms, which is not only relatively expensive, but also more inconvenient.

Shopping at a bookstore is an experience only when you have the time

The main point is that after the book arrives and you find that it doesn't suit you, or isn't to your liking, the psychological experience of this is very negative.

2. Inconvenience

Paper books take up some of the space in your life, and whether they are your favorite books or not, they will always take up a place in your bookshelf in your daily life; and they will also weigh more when you move or travel with them.

What do you do with a lot of paperbacks at home?

This is the reason why many people who like to read have partly switched to digital reading; the portability of paper books is too limited.

How do you read elegantly and healthily?

Digital reading is hip but unhealthy; paperback reading is healthy but outdated. In the era of digitalization and the convergence of the Internet, how to read quickly and easily without falling behind the times and at the same time protect your health?

1. Mobile phone: quick and light reading

There are many books nowadays, and we may only like a part of them, so we can have a quick preview on our cell phones before devoting our energy to reading them to determine whether there is a need for further reading.

The first is a quick preview of some of the free chapters of a new book, other people's reviews and thoughts, etc., so that you can quickly determine whether the book warrants further reading.

The second is that now there are some listening software that can explain the book briefly to you, which can also quickly help you determine whether a book is worth reading, such as WeChat Book's Listening to Books, Getting to Listen to a Book a Day, and so on.

2. Electric paper book reader: read the book that suits you

Electric paper book reader is dedicated to book reading, because the screen display is close to the paper for the public to be familiar with, the famous reader has Amazon's kindle, Jingdong reader, dangdang reader, Guowen OBOOK and so on.

Photo photo of the Qixing reader e-ink screen provides a similar experience to paper books

Readers now have their own operating system and built-in bookstore, you can directly network to search for books, purchase, download and read, more convenient. At the same time, the reader's built-in apps are mainly bookstores, so there will be very little interference.

After a quick preview on the phone, if you have determined that you like the book, you can search and read it in the reader's bookstore, and the e-ink screen configured for reading is closer to a paper book, so there will be very little damage to your eyes.

3. Paper books: classic collection

The cultural weight of paper books, physical touch is virtual e-books can not be replaced, although the price is higher, but for some of their own specific significance, have a collection of books for the bookshelf, placed in the bookshelf of the paper book will still give people a good emotional, cultural meaning.

So, after reading a particular book on an ereader and determining that there is a need to buy a paperback, you can spend a relatively higher price to buy a hardcover version for your collection.

Reading guide list

1. Mobile phone reading is convenient, smooth and rich in content, but there are many interferences and it is easy to hurt the eyes; paper book reading has a physical sense of touch, but the cost is high and the convenience is limited.

2. In the era of digitalization and the Internet, you can filter your favorite books with the help of the massive reading content of cell phones, and read your favorite books in depth on the electric paper book reader to protect your eyes and not miss the good books. After reading, for books with collection value, you can selectively buy paperback collection.

3. Mobile phones, readers, paperbacks all have different core strengths, which can be reasonably utilized to have your own elegant and healthy reading life in the era of fragmented reading.