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What are e-books? Have you ever used one? Do you think the future belongs to them? B. Read the text and match its paragraphs with the appropriate titles. There is one title you don’t have to use. a) They Have Become a Fact of Everybody’s Life b) Why Some People Don’t Like Them c) Why Some Readers Choose Them d) The Future Belongs to Them e) A New Electronic Invention E-books 1. Electronic books, or e-books, are described in the Oxford Dictionary of English as printed books in electronic form, but in fact e-books can be born digital, so they may not have a printed equivalent. E-books are usually read on e-book readers, personal computers and many mobile phones. 2. Early e-books were generally used by limited audience interested in special subjects. However, nowadays e-books are becoming very popular with the general public. You can see more and more people reading e-books on public transport. Electronic textbooks are finding their way to classrooms, some libraries have begun giving out e-books to their readers. You can even buy e-books online. 3. The advantages of e-books are clear. They don’t take as much space as printed books and your e-book collection won’t take up a lot of room and weight. An e-book may be readable in low light or even in darkness. Many new e-book readers read the text aloud to you, which may be important to people who can’t see well. Though an e-book reader is much more expensive than a paper book, the electronic texts are a lot cheaper. In fact, a great share of e-books online can be used free. The production of e-books doesn’t need paper so they are more ecologically friendly. 4. At the same time using e-books may have some disadvantages. While printed books are readable for many years, e-books may need to be copied or adapted to new standards. Paper books can be bought for a present and some people may prefer to have a library of paper books at home because they like the look and feel of them. An author who publishes a book often puts more into the work than just the words on the pages. Books with large pictures, for example children’s books, look much better on paper. A printed book will never turn off or lose the data, its shelf life is much longer than the life of an e-book reader. As with any piece of technology, the reader must be protected from cold and hot temperatures, water etc. What kind of books — printed or electronic — will you choose for yourself and why? C. Answer the question asked in the text.

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