Question

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right.

Frank Schembari loves books — printed books. He loves how they smell. He loves scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences, folding a page corner to mark his place.

Schembari is not a retiree who sips tea at Politics and Prose or some other bookstore. He is 20, a junior at American University, and […] he is evidence of a peculiar irony of the Internet age: Digital natives prefer reading in print.

“I like the feeling of it,” Schembari said, reading under natural light in a campus atrium, his smartphone next to him. “I like holding it. It’s not going off. It’s not making sounds.” […]

“These are people who aren’t supposed to remember what it’s like to even smell books,” said Naomi S. Baron, an American University linguist who studies digital communication. “It’s quite astounding.” […]

ROSENWALD, Michael S. Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. Available at: . Accessed on: 13 October 2016.



The sentence “Digital natives prefer reading in print” can be rewritten, without change in meaning, as

A
Digital natives would rather print paper.


B
Digital natives would rather read print copies of books.


C
Digital natives would rather read than print.


D
Digital natives would rather read about digital natives.

Answer 1

B ) Digital natives would rather read print copies of books.