What is an eBook Reader?
eBook Readers are small hand-held tools for reading digitized books with backlit touch sensitive screens. They can hold thousands of pages of material. Therefore you can load several books on one reader.You can underline, make notes, and bookmark passages in each reader. You can adjust the size of the font and the orientation of the page. eBook Readers are compact, portable, and very easy to use.
With the rise of the Internet age and digital media and so much of the world’s information available online, it is a completely natural progression to see books and periodicals looking to find a new footing in electronic formats. An eBook, short for electronic book, is any written material similar in content and presentation to that of a printed book or magazine, but delivered digitally or electronically. An eBook reader is, most simply put, any device which can be used to read eBooks. An eBook reader can be as simple as the cellphone or PDA on which a Japanese subway rider reads the latest cell phone novel, or as advanced as the home computer on which an eBook reader can click his way through the pages of PDFs or works in other formats. For most of the early years of digital media, these were the primary options for consumers interested in an eBook reader. The biggest benefit of eBooks is the tiny space required, compared to a paper product. But issues like screen glare and the prohib
An ebook reader can be a few different things: • A piece of software used to read electronic texts. • A computer or laptop which is used to read electronic texts. • A dedicated device, like the Rocket eBook, used primarily for reading electronic texts. This page focuses on #3: the dedicated, portable ebook readers.
