Michael Hansen still prefers holding an actual book to reading one on his computer.
He likes the feel of a book in his hand. He likes to be able to write in the margins and highlight important passages.
“It just seems a lot more handy to have the actual physical book,” said the University of Nebraska-Lincoln history major. “I prefer paper.”
He isn’t alone.
Most students prefer to buy or rent physical textbooks rather than digital copies, said John Parish, regional manager for the UNL Bookstore’s parent company, Follett Higher Education Group. That doesn’t mean traditional bookstores, including Nebraska Bookstore, haven’t had to find ways to compete with online stores, such as Amazon.com, that offer books at steeply discounted prices.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Michael Hansen still prefers holding an actual book to reading one on his computer.
