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I prefer both.This is an undying debate which is as pointless as a broken pencil, yet as raging as Madhuri Dixit in the 90s. And I hope this will be the end of it.If we look at this debate with a sense of detail and depth, we realize one common thing between these two options - a commonality by ignoring which we have affirmed that ‘We are nothing but the grandsons and grand-daughters of a brainless horny ape called Nigel’. And the commonality is that -BOTH OPTIONS ARE BOOKS - Yep, books. Good ol’ books. Bookity booky books.Strings of words and punctuations. Something made out of nothing but alphabets and…. lack of alphabets. Plethora of letters that somehow make our brains go ‘Hey Nigel’s grandson, put down that whiskey and listen to this you gorram fool.’The only essential difference between both is the medium - one is made by killing trees, the other is made by things which when disposed carelessly can kill trees. So it’s the trees that should be having this debate and not us. But I swear on my nose hairs, I have never seen a coconut tree shitting itself when I passed by reading a book on a Kindle.It’s all a matter of preference amongst the following aspects -Portability - Real books work for those who do not plan to move much. E-books work like a charm for folks who like to keep moving.Cost - Real books work for those who can afford to budget for their monthly expenditure on books. E-book formats of most books are available online for which you can choose to not spend even a single penny.Options - On average, a Kindle can store up to 3000 books. You need to have a gargantuan physical space in your house to fit that many real books.Lasting - Paper based books don’t need any energy to run (apart from the torchlight you have under your blanket to read when your parents force you to go to sleep). A Kindle runs on electrical power - its battery can run out of juice in two weeks if used regularly.Measurability - It’s really easy to estimate the size of the book with a real paper book because….DUH, it’s there right in front of you, you Nigel’s grandson. In an ebook, you just get to know the number of pages in the book which don’t quite give you an accurate idea of the size of the book.Graphic novels - Let’s face it - Ebook formats for graphic novels suck on e-readers like Kindle. The narration strips get cropped weirdly and reaching frustration while reading it becomes as easy as breathing. Real comics have it all laid out for you - no way can you get anything wrong, unless you aren’t actually reading it.The ‘feel’ - (Yep, we have all heard this one) Turning the pages of a book is a real action that we do with our fingers; we get the haptic feedback of holding the book - that’s the way we learnt to read. In an e-reader, we are just imitating the action of turning the pages. It’s like the difference between having sex for real and get a feel of having sex in VR.Personally, I first read the books on my Kindle. If I really like a book, I buy it. As simple as that.For e.g - the first time I read Man's Search for Meaning, I knew I had to have a copy of it for real. The first time I read The Obstacle Is the Way, I knew that I would boil myself to a slow agonizing death in a pot full of Bhut jolokia while listening to a cat singing a Justin Bieber track before I ever buy that book.In conclusion, both mediums deliver the same book - the experience can differ, but essentially it’s the same book.

Let me be brutally honest with you my friend. With the exception of some exceptionally brilliant courses what had helped me personally (like Prof. C.Balaji courses of thermal science or heat transfer), I agree with you more than 200 percent. Truth is our educational system doesn't want us to be liberated. It is not designed to give you the “feel" of the subject. It is for stuffing more and more stuffs and cramming large and large quantity of notes, giving you nothing in long run. Most of the students select the subjects just based on social pressure and doesn't feel that “feel" factor what is required to be present in selecting a subject. Similarly faculty is also habituated to supply the demand. We want marks, and dispassionate lectures provide you all the platform to mug from boring lectures. Once you complete a course, all of your interests are deliberately reduced to zero in such a way that you lack all the energy to revisit the subject in future. Similarly, one lecture out of 40 in NPTEL, can bore you to such an extent that you begin to hate the subject or the prof as a whole. In India, no professor is appreciated based on his teaching capability or classroom enthusiast. Their promotion is also based on publishing mostly, irrelevant works in an obscured journal or organizing conference or visiting foreign country. The latest new addition to this is NPTEL videos. The objective is not necessarily to make you truly motivated. This “lethargy” is appreciated and further extended by horrible (rather disgusting! Or ill-fated!) camerawork. Some profs just read from the slides like newspaper. Cameraman doesn't mind, student also doesn't mind.However, for MIT, leave the prof, just see the broadcasting. The camerawork is so beautiful. You can feel the MIT classroom environment by the camerawork. You can see the student's response every moment. And, therefore it is utmost responsibility of the prof to give them the “feel" of the subject. I haven't talked about ego till now. Yeah, to be polite about it, a majority of Indian profs do feel that they are preachers and student are disciples. In MIT, perhaps, the system knew the thin line difference between a preacher and a teacher what enables them to be more impressive certainly than the IITs. They love what they are doing, and their love for science and technology is reflected on how they introduce the subjects to students.(Image Sourcs: Lecture Video, MIT Open Course Ware)Profs are not under the pressure, “I have to be always right". Just see Prof. Gilbert Strang's lectures. Forget the subject, the way he “thinks", gets confused and then comes to a reason….this is the way science needs to be taught or learnt!!(Image Sourcs: Lecture Video, MIT Open Course Ware)A subject has to be analysed, thought and questioned. This is something text book alone, can't teach you otherwise, why the hell do we go to school? There is nothing nobler than becoming a teacher and those joining this profession in India must give highest priority towards how to teach rather than teaching the subject at first place.I shall end up my statements with Prof. Walter Lewin. He once told that teachers who made physics boring are criminals. His another statement was an advise to students that says, don't take the subject (i.e. physics) in M.I.T just because you love Pror. Lewin. Take this subject if you love the subject and interested about it. I have never come across these types of advise from any of my superiors. A person who could give a student an advise as “ego less" as this is no less than a visionary. MIT recognises their faculty who involves their student. They want to create innovaters and leaders of future. We want to create obedient toppers who know only how to mug. That surely reflects on our teaching methadology. A teacher was also a student once. This is the brutal truth.(Image Sourcs: Lecture Video, MIT Open Course Ware)/************Answer Ends Here************/Further reading:Based on feedback (rather criticism) of some readers on my answer, I have written some notes worth debating. Purpose is NOT to convince you deliberately but to clarify certain portions of my opinions in a better and honest way. So, here it goes……(Note 1: Are all NPTEL lectures boring?Again, not all NPTEL lectures are dull. I have already mentioned about the influence of Prof. Balaji on me, just the way he teaches heat transfer!! Some lectures are truly superb since, truly wise professors’ lifetime devotion is embedded in their lectures. With deepest appreciation to those real unsung heroes of Indian academics, just want to conclude by saying that most of the NPTEL lectures are as, what you have described in your question.)(Note 2: Entertaining a student and motivating a student is NOT same. We must understand this thin line difference)(Note 3: Is the purpose of online lectures only to provide good content?There are many who are advocating about content of online lectures. If good content is your only priority, innumerable classic books are available with great content. Say, for basic heat transfer, content of books like Incoperra, Bejan and Hollman are more than sufficient. When fluid mechanics is concerned, can anyone give you better content than the books of G.K. Batchelor or Schlichting or Cohen & Kundu or Panton? So, if you are going for content, isn't it best to go for best texts? Then, why should we go to classes and attend lectures? May be it is time to ask ourselves the correct questions.)(Note 4: Does broadcasting bring any change in your learning experience? Does it enhance concepts better?Ofcourse, camerawork is independent of concepts given to student by a teacher yet, it has a significant effect on learning. When we sit in a class, our eyes as well as attention are towards the teacher, his/her movements, board work, ppt (if there) and on our batchmate asking questions. All of these together build an innovative classroom environment. A person who is learning from the online lectures deserve these too. Say for a situation, (1) when he is writing in board, camera is in his face, (2) whenever camera is supposed to focus the prof, it is focussing the board. Or, (3) boardwork of prof appears to be opaque, especially when a white board is used. Hardly, we observe questions coming from students, isn't it? For online, you can't interact with a teacher so, broadcasting should encompsss important aspects for better and effective learning. In this era of internet where, we can examine the truth ourselves; some are diverging these points. Ofcourse, cameraman is not giving me concepts. But if he works well, learning environment becomes undoubtedly well. It is analogous to quality of printing of books giving better experience to a reader. Some cynic having a rigid mindset towards academics will not get it since, rigidity always teaches us never to appreciate a credible one. And what if a prospective techer posseses that rigid mindset? Dedicated to Bill Nye.)(NOTE 5: Are all MIT lectures good?I have done two full courses of MIT. One is on linear algebra another, advanced gas dynamics. Both are amazing, motivating and treasures (for me, might NOT be for others!!). If you feel, this opinion is biased; I really can't help that. It is futile, if I compare those pioneers with anybody and everybody. Sorry, if anyone is NOT blessed to learn from those 90– 100 lectures. Again, they are built with the objective to make leaders of tomorrow rather than preparing obedient toppers who will cram the subject till they are placed in a job and then forget every bit of it like a classic normal shock graph.)(NOTE 6: IIT v/s MIT debate? What about pioneers from other universities?I sincerely pity on those who say, Gilbert Strang’s lectures appear good to us because of their western accent. I sincerely doubt whether they have any base of linear algebra or linear solver or whether they have ever gone through even a single page of his book.However, let me share an interesting story of one of my p.g friends in IITG whose bachelors was from Jadavpur University. He used to say, the prof in JU who taught him IC Engines is 10 times better than the current IIT professor. He never crammed engine combustion aspects. He could just visualise it. He used to tell that his prof had shown step by step simulations of combustion for major engine configurations, inspite of showing boring slides having same content as the book. Of course, it is because of his interests, he learnt but credit goes to his mentor in JU too. There are many teachers in colleges other than IITs too who might not be having 500 publications or 20 phd scholars under their belt but are doing proper justice to the subject, being a part of the noblest profession. But alas, some of us are involved only in futile IIT v/s MIT debate. Let us also listen to pioneers of other institutions too considering, our intention is truly on learning rather than on branding.)/************************************************/A Sincere request to enlightened readers:Your edits in my answer highlighting only and only the spelling mistakes will be appreciated from my side. For example, please don't suggest an edit like, “he once told….” to be “he said once….”. In this situation “told" is much more appropriate to me than “said" for obvious reasons. Sometimes rhythmically, sometimes deliberately I construct informal statements. Hope, not a chronic inconvenience.