Also, textbooks are heavy to carry around and it takes longer to find a page. Likewise, digital textbooks are compatible with tablets, smartphones and laptops; it's much easier to carry around and has an affordable price. However, some people might argue that digital textbooks can be a distraction for people because they would no longer bother reading them. Author and poet Dana Gioia argues that electronic alternatives could be a bad influence that will lead society to stop reading. Gioia complicates matters further when he writes, “Although no single activity is responsible for the decline in reading, the cumulative presence and availability of electronic alternatives have increasingly driven Americans away from reading” (161). I think Gioia is wrong because he overlooks electronics as a bad influence; but he doesn't see the advantages of electronics. To prove it, most of my textbooks are digital, so I can easily take my tablet with me wherever I go. Plus, I save more on digital textbooks and it's easy to annotate text. Journalist Ellen Lee interviews a student at Liberty University and he says he prefers digital textbooks because he can tap his iPad, open the digital copy and quickly open the page. However, he also likes digital textbooks because they have a feature that allows you to highlight and mark texts