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Which is your favorite?

Gone with the Wind. It was written by Margaret Mitchell in 1936 and set a sales record when 50,000 copies were sold in one day. By 1965, it had sold more than 10,000,000 copies and had been translated into 25 languages in 29 countries.It is one of the most successful best-sellers ever written. With Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell taught us, “Tomorrow is another day.”

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Nowadays, besides the traditional books, that is, books in print, do we have any other kinds of book?

What are the benefits of reading e-books?1. When you need certain information, you can get it immediately, by downloading an e-book at any kind of Computer like Mac, laptop, PDA and more... 2. In most cases, e-books are cheaper than paper books. 3. E-books are free and easy to download from the internet. 4. E-books are quickly searchable and you can search it by topic and categories.

5. E-books take up less space so you can store hundreds and thousands of ebooks in your computer. 6. E-books are portable and so you can carry it without worrying about their weight. 7. E-books can be printable, if you wish to read an e-book in the traditional way.

8. E-books are very simple and easy to purchase and download. 9. You can make a good library of all kinds of digital books that you need. 10. All lovers of e-books can enjoy it anywhere at anytime by using today s technology. They can save their time and money by internet.

Have you ever been a member of a reading club?What did you do in the reading club? Does our school have a reading club? Are you a member of this club? If you are, what do you think of the club?

What kind of activities does a book club usually hold?In a reading club, people read books together and then discuss them. People can share information about books and authors, hold book fairs, write articles about the books they read and do other book-related things.

Why might people want to join a book club?

They might want to join a book club because it provides a place for people with similar interest to find friends easily and share information about their favourite books and authors. In a reading club, people can always learn more.

Do you think reading books in print is the only way to read? In what other ways can we read? People now have more choices about the ways to read books. For example, we can browse online literature websites and read short stories on web pages. Some books are stored as Word files or PDF files on CDs or even posted online. We can use a computer to run the CDs or visit websites and read ebooks. We can also store e-books on portable electronic gadgets like a PDA

and read the books wherever we go. Recently, some telecommunication companies have begun providing a service where they send chapters of a book through text messages. That way, people can read books on their mobile phones.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-books?E-b

ooks have a lot of advantages. They save a lot of space. A CD can store many books and it weighs just a few grams so that it is much easier to carry some CDs than to carry a heavy suitcase full of books in print when travelling or moving house.

E-books provide people with a more personalized way of reading as the readers can set the pages, adjust the point size of the text or change the background colour. Some even provide a voice function so that people can read their books by listening. Many people report that they read e-books faster than books in print. Besides, we can save a lot of trees because no paper will be used for e-books.

However, as many other electronic gadgets, e-books have disadvantages as well. To read e-books, people must first have an electronic device that can display them. Besides, when reading e-books, people cannot make notes or comments on the margin as they can with books in print. More importantly, e-books available online may hurt copyright holders.