英語検定ライティング準１級（第521回）

電子書籍「キャッシュレス化していく話」

紙ゴミを減らすために図書館がある訳ではない。だが図書館は環境保護にも役立っている。紙ゴミの問題を解決するには電子書籍が一番だが複数の欠点がある。睡眠不足の原因になるからだ。デジタル機器の画面から出る光は睡眠のための脳内物質を抑制する。またそれらの便利な装置は電力をも消費するのだ。
A library exists for a reader to enjoy a book for free, so it isn’t originally in the environmental perspectives, but we cannot fail to decrease the notorious paper wastes when we visit there because we never throw it away, he knows.
Producing a book is one of the causes of deforestations, so it might make negative contributions to environment.
In order to overcome these serious issues, we consider an ebook as something epochal, which might provide us with several inconveniences and disadvantages, he says.
One of the reasons for it should be that we tend to lack enough sleep after we watch the screen of the tablets.
In the first place, we would lose sufficient sleep when we are absorbed in the social media until midnight, he says.
It should be because the screens of digital devices won’t fail to release the negative substances towards our eyes, which could reduce necessary chemicals “melatonin”in our brains to make us sleepy, simultaneously, these so convenient devices naturally consume electricity, which have negative influences on our precious surroundings.

電子書籍を購入する際に気づくことは価格が少し割安だということだ。経済のキャッシュレス化を進める上でそれは重要なことだ。しかし図書館で借りることほど安いものはない。ただし人気の作品は予約が困難だ。他人からの返却を待たなくてはならない。図書館での読書は経済の活性化にも役立たないのだ。
When we purchase what we want to read in the form of ebook online, we would notice that digital books might be a little less expensive than paper books, an article says.
These forms matter because the government attempts to promote the cashless payment systems in our society.
However, we spend the least money when we read in the library, although we fail to reserve the popular works with ease because we must wait for others to return them to the library, simultaneously, borrowing what we want to read in the library would make negative contributions to our society in the financial and economic perspectives.
It might be because that the economy makes it when we purchase what seems something unnecessary, she says.