Alright. So I’m originally from India, but I’m a citizen in the UAE for as long as I have been breathing and I do not know the current trend in India regarding electronic books, but I can assure you of one thing is that as much as I’ve seen in the Internet, a lot of people or you can say, countable people do have electronic books, so it’s not many people using them. I still think that a lot of people prefer page to books instead of electronic books as books words written on the pages are very expressive expressing. Now, the advantage of parents reading electronic books compared to the printed ones. Well, I wouldn’t say there are advantages, but I would still like to point some of them. It’s that they will still be hooked up and it’s easy to handle as well for the ebooks. And for them in the current generation, if they lost the book or anything, they can eventually have a copy of that ebook in their, uh, device. Now, uh, I do think is that the, uh, ebooks will replace printed books in the future because
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Alright. So I'm originally from India, but I'm a citizen in the UAE, and I don't know the current trend in India regarding electronic books. However, based on my online research, I can assure you that a significant number of people do have electronic books, although it's not a majority. I still think that many people prefer printed books to electronic books because the words written on the pages are very expressive. Now, the advantage of parents reading electronic books compared to printed ones is that they're easy to handle, and if they lose the book or anything, they can easily access a copy of that ebook on their device. Now, I do think that ebooks will eventually replace printed books in the future because...
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