You’re going to listen to several people discussing about the differences between e-books and the traditional printed books.

EBOOKS OR PRINT BOOKS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSUcncNFK74

1. Match the following expressions with their meanings:

a) get rid of	- not being able to stop yourself from doing something
b) come back	- to look for something in a collection of things
c) can’t help	- become available to the public for the first time
d) die out	- disappear, go somewhere else
e) shuffle through	- to remove or throw away something you no longer want
f) go away	- to become less and less common until it finally disappears
g) come out	- when a product, activity or style becomes fashionable again

You’re going to listen to several people discussing about the differences between e-books and the traditional printed books.

2. Do you prefer print or e-books? As you listen, write down the arguments they give for each one:

Advantages of e-books	Advantages of printed books

3. Can print and e-books coexist? Answer the questions briefly.

- What does Margaret Maron like about digital devices?

- What percentage of people only read digitally?

- Why do some people own the same book in two formats?

4. Is there a future for print books? Fill the gaps on the excerpts from the video:

I ________________ but believe that we will always have print books.

If e-books become more popular, people also might _________________ their older copies of the used books.

There’s an analogy that I like that when the camera ________________ painting didn’t ________________.

You could have your whole collection on one device and _________________ it.

Vinyl records are oddly _______________ in some way as a kind of boutique music medium, and everybody thought that they’d completely _______________ with the CD.

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