"Since Everything is on the internet, i dont need books..... right?"
Although everything is on the internet does not mean that everything on it is true or reliable. Some people make up fake website that contains false information. You may not always get all the information that you are looking for if you were to just to look things up on the internet. Also looking things up on the internet can not be too efficient. You may have troubles finding the exact things that you want from the internet and might have to make the best use of what you have, even if it means working around what you need too: learning things little by little about your topic. Another problem with only relying on the internet is the sources. The sources may not be too reliable and the ethos of the authors can be affected depending on if you know who the author is and how they got their information.
Books may take a longer time to look through but it may be more useful in some situations. Books can date from before we were born and can come in handy when doing a historical paper. On the internet, the results from Google come up from the recent dates or important dates that many people know about. Even though a book can be hard to look through and may take a while, there are experts that can help you with the research needed that may help cut down the time spent trying to research from it.
When you are in need of a biography or an autobiography books are a better source to look at. Most likely there are not going to be pages of a person’s autobiography or biography. The only time there would be something like that would be to have a quick summary. In books you can get more details which can better the effect of what is being located.
The internet also has quick short information. The amount of information that can be found on the internet could just be a quick summary of the whole truth of information that can be useful. When looking up about a person or a new cure a short article form Google will not tell a person the entire story as to results and such. A book would be a better way to go because it would explain how a person got to their results and it could talk about errors and difficulties getting there.
A good time to be able to use the internet would be to simply find quick sources that will summarize what is needed. When you are reading a book but need help understanding what the book is about, using the internet can help clarify what the book is saying in short simpler words. But just because it can explain the book does not meant that it will give all the details. Books are always full of key essential details that many other sources cannot provide. Which make books a better reliable sources at times, better than the internet.
Hello Diana!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post about the benefits of books compared to the internet. I agree with you that there are many reasons why we should turn to books when doing our searching instead of relying entirely on research on the internet.
As you stated in the first paragraph, not everything on the internet is true or came from reliable sources. You have to do the extra work to find out who wrote the information you are reading on the internet and what his credentials are. That isn't always easy to find out.
I agree that using the internet if you just need a short summary can be helpful, but as you have discovered, if you need details you will probably want to get a book that will have a lot more information.
You mentioned that it is difficult to find information in a book and that you might have to go to a librarian for help. You might have to do that with some books, but you will find the table of contents and index in most books very helpful in finding the information you are looking for.
I enjoyed reading your blog and liked the way you combined using the internet with books instead of discounting the internet altogether.
Helen White
Health Sciences Library