Books Vs Online Material

In case you noticed In my previous posts I have always been a technology admirer. Have always mesmerized by the new inventions and specifically Web. This time I have contradictory views.

I was thinking about how we use google for any to all things. I always say if google is not there we cant work(code) . But then I think Is google (online material) good enough to learn? Can online reading replace the books? I strongly think there is no match.

Books have many many advantages over online material.

1) You can only read the stuff online which you have an idea about. Normally the topics which you have some doubts or which you have some issues with .But what about plethora of material which you dont even know.

2) Books teach you step by step. You get to know many things which you never think about. Since you never think about them you can never google them .

3) Dont forget the old time markers. Yes I know you can book mark pages which you read online but still books come handy when you need to go through those topics again. Once you finish a book you brain always keep an impression of topics with layout of pages. You can easily track the old topic.

4) You can read book anywhere .Yes I know everything is getting Wi-fi equipped but still there is a long way to go.

5)Book gives you a direction and you always have a goal to finish.While you can easily forget about online links. If in case your computer shuts down before you book marked it ,there is 90% chance you will never revisit that page and In case you already bookmarked there is 95% chance you will never open your bookmark list again.

6)Online material usually have links to other pages.Clicking on those links will distract you and you will end up reading a totally different topic which had no connection to what you were reading initially.

7) Very Important in my view Books give you a common platform . You can talk about those books to other people.This helps you understanding people from their taste of books.

These are my views so If you want to actually learn some thing keep Google as a reference and buy a book. Atleast you will have other motivation to read it since you have spent few bucks on it.

How kool is that!!!

Last time when I was reading Thomson Friedman's book " World is Flat" , I was amazed when he cited the incident of Japan.Wherein he, with his friend was sitting in a train. His friend opened up his lap top and they were connected to world through Wi-fi.

This time I was all the more excited as I experienced it myself . I was able to chat in India and US while I was traveling in Europe.How kool is that ,I was connected to whole world at the same time :)

More to it, I did not need to take leave for this trip. Surprised?? Yes, thatz true I just took two days leave for my entire trip of ten days.No, I did not club my trip with public holidays but I was working remotely. Again thanks to technology. I was able to work over VPN using free Wi-fi from hotel.

This is really kool Isn't it!! Kudos to all the Geekiez who made it possible.