E-book Reader

Since 1970s, the e-book were invented t be for specialty areas and limitied audience. But with the availability of internet since 1990s, people are receiving bunch of information digitally. Some books were able to be read digitally, although there was still some limitation. In 1998 U.S libraries began to provide e-book to the public.

In 2009 a new hardware comes to life which is e-book reader. Three dominant model of e-book readers are Amazon kindle, sony’s PRS, the barnes and nobles’s nook. Through e-book reader you can download electronic books with lower prices. In the last months of 2010, amazon sold 180 e-books for every 100 hardcopy book. The e-book are cheap in price comparing to hardcover book; you can get popular books from amazon for example with only 9,99 $, and also you can get some books for free.

Besides competible price for books, e-book reader saves a lot of space one might need specially when buying tons of books. The e-book reader is a compact electronic device that can store thousands of books, newspapers, magazines or images/songs and can provide the same reading experience as on a regular book



Also you can search your word easily. You can put the word you are looking for in the search tab and it will show pages that have this word.

With a regular digital display one might experience difficulty of reading because of long time viewing or reflection of strong light. However, the e-book reader uses a different technology: e-ink displays. These screens simulate a regular page from a book. Reading from them is exactly as reading from a printed paper, but you get more advantages: you can adjust the levels of darkness desired for the texts, you can re-size fonts, you can search inside books, and others.



Before buying an e-book device, have a look at the different features of the different devices. This will help determining which is better to purchase.