How about Malaysians? How about you? As for me, anything more than 5 pages, I want to have a proper printed version in hand. Especially textbooks!
I encourage my students in UTM to buy printed textbook. They have no excuse in Sem 2 when thw government gives them RM250 book vouchers. Even in Sem 1, they should put aside money for books. I know that scholarahip students receive book allowance. At least that’s how it was in my old days.
I know some of my friends still dilligently buy novels. Some buy 5 novels per month. Unfortunately for me, I have stopped reading novels. It is journals with all the complicated maths for me. 5 pages of journals took the same amount of time to finish 1 novel.
Americans’ appetite for reading books — ones you actually hold in your hands — has not slowed in recent years, says a Pew Research Center survey.
Read the full story from NY TimesNo, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book. Most People Still Prefer Them.