سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 8070)

1) As online learning becomes more common and more resources are converted to digital form, some local governments suggest that public libraries should be shut down and, in their place, everyone should be given an iPad with an e-reader subscription. 2) Proponents of this idea believe that it will save local cities and towns money because libraries are actually expensive to maintain. Libraries require a lot of land and real estate to house various books and resources, which makes it somewhat expensive to maintain. They also think it will encourage more people to read because they won't have to travel to a library to get a book; they can simply click on what they want to read and read it from wherever they are. They could also access more materials because libraries won't have to buy physical copies of books; they can simply rent out as many digital copies as they need. 3) However, it would be a serious mistake to replace libraries with tablets. Digital books and resources are associated with less learning and more problems than print resources. A study done on tablet versus book reading found that people read 20-30% slower on tablets, retain 20% less information, and understand 10% less of what they read compared to people who read the same information in print. Additionally, staring too long at a screen has been shown to cause blurred vision, dizziness, dry eyes, headaches, and eye strain, at much higher instances than reading print does. People who use tablets and mobile devices excessively also have a higher incidence of more serious health issues such as fibromyalgia, shoulder and back pain, and muscle strain. 4) While replacing libraries with tablets may seem like a simple solution, it would encourage people to spend even more time looking at digital screens, despite the myriad issues surrounding them. It would also end access to many of the benefits of libraries that people have come to rely on. In many areas, libraries are such an important part of the community network that they could never be replaced by a simple object.