(a)  What books do you read? Give 1-2 examples. Do you read them in print versions/digital versions?

I read young adult, romance fiction books. Two examples are ‘The fine print’ by Lauren asher and ‘The court of silver flames’ by Sarah J maas. I prefer reading them in print. 

(b) What challenges does digitisation pose to book-reading habits?

After the digitisation of books, people have become more lethargic as it is easier and quicker to find books online. Digital books are not eye-friendly, which gives rise to multiple health issues. 

(c) How is this going to impact physical bookstores? Think about the situation in Malaysia, or in your home country.

Printed books are still in demand to this day even tho digitisation has started taking over print media. Hence bookstores have not had any significant impact because of digitisation. 

(d) Will books continue to be relevant in the future? Why? Explain in 2-3 sentences.

Whether printed books would stay relevant in the future is up to the people who read them. It depends on whether people in the future would be more inclined to read digital books than printed books or vice versa. 

I like reading crime and self-help books. Example for crime book is “Prey” by Michael Crichton and as for self-help “The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert greene. 

(b) What challenges does digitization pose to book-reading habits?

After digitization of books, i feel the biggest disadvantage for readers is how harmful it can be to our eyes. Also, with the much larger volume of digital information, finding the right material for a specific task becomes increasingly difficult.

(c) How is this going to impact physical bookstores? Think about the situation in Malaysia, or in your home country.

I feel since the disadvantages of using too much technology is out there, and people are aware of it. Hence the sales for physical books to this day have not been impacted just yet

(d) Will books continue to be relevant in the future? Why? Explain in 2-3 sentences.

Yes, despite digitalization occurring, there is still an ample amount of people who would still opt for physical books. I would say it’ll be an equal amount of mixture between the crowd that prefers online and a crowd that prefers physical. 

(b) What challenges does digitization pose to book-reading habits?
They take a large hit on your eyes, as you are staring at a screen for long periods of times. Additionally, I often do get headaches when reading digitally.

(c) How is this going to impact physical bookstores? Think about the situation in Malaysia, or in your home country.
It will definitely largely impact physical bookstores. The number of bookstores may decrease, due to a rise in digital books being bought. Especially in Malaysia, as there is an increasing number of people who prefer to read digitally.

(d) Will books continue to be relevant in the future? Why? Explain in 2-3 sentences.
I believe books will still be relevant. Because although there is a number of people transferring to digital books, there is still a large number of people who prefer physical books.

I usually read fantasy books such as the Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan series and Divergent by Veronica Roth. I read print version of them.

What challenges does digitization pose to book-reading habits?

I think that digitization of books leads to people becoming too dependent on their electronic devices which leads to eye strain from staring at a screen for too long.

How is this going to impact physical bookstores? Think about the situation in Malaysia, or in your home country.

Currently, the impact is still not as strong against physical bookstores as many people still prefer to read physical books because it does not cause eye strain and having the actual book in hand allows them to have it permanently which is it not possible with e-books as the e-reader may be damaged and all the information on the book might get lost.

Will books continue to be relevant in the future? Why? Explain in 2-3 sentences.

Books will continue to be relevant because there are no negative effects and they have been around for too long to take them out of habit. For older people, books will still be preferred since it will not strain their eyes as much.