Reading Books Online ? A Massive Advantage

Posted by arun on September 10th, 2014

Online book reading is a great way to enhance and increase one’s knowledge. With just few clicks of one can get what they exactly wants and on top of that, you can do it from anywhere. Everything is becoming digital today and one can get the necessary books or content on the internet with much ease – no need to browse catalogues in mammoth structures or wait in the queue to get to the book you like anymore! Though traditional methods of learning and paperback printed books are still used, technology has revolutionized the reading as well as learning experiences.

Reading a book online is very simple as there are lots of online libraries in the web offering numerous educational books, story books, novels and books for kids. Many books can be found in PDF formats and few libraries offer books for free. Some of the books cannot be downloaded but those books can be read online. Why download something and make it readable only at one place when you can read books online from anywhere and at anytime?  

Advantages of reading books online

There are lots of advantages in reading online books. Following are some of the advantages:

1.       Comfort

You can comfortably switch between pages and it is suitable for night reading. As eReaders used for reading ebooks have in-built lighting features.

2.       Ease of use

 Almost everyone has a smart phone or a tablet today. They can read books online anywhere, anytime provided there is an internet connection.

3.       Affordable

Online books are cheaper than the regular books and this helps students and other people to buy two online books for the rate of one regular traditional books.

4.       Free books

Today one can read book online for free and many classics, novels are available for free on the internet.

5.       Easy storage

The ebooks can be stored in laptops, palmtops or in your mobile phones, so you can read it while travelling or during leisure time.

6.       Privacy

Privacy is an attractive advantage of online reading. When you own a bookshelf, you can upload the content and maintain your privacy within your own bookshelf. Others cannot use your content or view your books. Additionally, you may grant conditional access to a few people that you wish to share the content with.

7.       Copyright Protection

When you upload your original content online, you can own a ‘copyright’ for it. This protects others from using your own content and misusing the same. Tracking views and providing security is easily possible and this avoids copyright violations to a large extent in a seamless fashion as compared to traditional media.

Students are the ones who get hugely benefitted by online books. There are many portals that offer educational books for various disciplines of study like medicine, engineering, law, management courses and many more. Some portals allow interesting and useful options like becoming a member in their website and using the books for free or buying it at lower costs, etc. A few portals allow their users to manage their own eLibrary that can be accessed whenever they want! On the whole reading books online gives the users a new reading and learning experience while also attracting the non-users to switch to online reading.