Economic benefit of physical books - 1161 | in order to engage more deeply with the inner flow of words, ideas and emotions. This was—and is—the essence of…close reading” (Carr 65). This form of reading which allowed a great movement of thought could disappear with the physical book. In The Shallows, Carr cites Christine Rosen in her experience with e-books where he writes: "Although mentally disorienting at first, I quickly adapted to the Kindle screen and mastered the scroll and change buttons of page. Nevertheless, my eyes were restless and darting as they do when I read at length on a computer...Twenty minutes later, I still had not returned to my reading” (Carr 103). This is common among people who read on a computer screen. Many people find themselves constantly drifting away from the text, unable to concentrate or absorb the text on the screen. If e-books became our only reading platform, then it would be more difficult for everyone to fully immerse themselves in the ideas of a text, which could lead to the end of intellectual movements as

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