Best e-Book Reader - Which One is the Best

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Best e-Book Reader: Which One is the Best? Nowadays, people are likely to read electronic books more than paper books. iPad, Kindle, Nook and Sony are most popular tools to read e-books. But which one is the best e-book reader? In July, online bookseller Amazon.com announced that quarterly sales of e-books for the company's popular Kindle e-reader had exceeded those of hardcovers for the first time. Astonishing, said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, "when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months." It seems that the iPad is out as far as the top choice for reading books. I'm sure the iPad is awesome for surfing the web and for Facebook and the like, but commenters seem to agree it's not the greatest for reading books. "The eyestrain of trying to read scripts on my iPad is killing me," Alan commented. The Nook is a lovely device. I just wish it could distinguish itself from the Kindle in any meaningful way. The Nook slaps ineffectively at that kind of ambition with a feature that lets you "lend" e-books to friends, and the ability read the entire commercial Nook library for free so long as you're sitting in a Barnes & Noble store and connected to the store's WiFi. But those features have been so watered-down that they're almost homeopathic. You can "lend" an individual book only once, and only for two weeks. And if you've settled in at the store with your Nook and a $5 latte from the coffee bar, the device will curtly tell you "this ain't a library, kid" and close the book after an hour. And then there's Sony, with its line of Sony Reader devices. They're designed with a terrific goal: to be as open as possible. It's an ePub reader that can read content from multiple bookstores and which has native support for PDF files and other desktop file formats. You can download content through WiFi or 3G, copy it via a built-in memory card reader, or just dock it to your desktop as a USB device. The Sony Reader system also supports a neat feature: borrowing books from your local public library. The system generates a license that self-destructs


All rights reserved——http://www.dvdtoipadconverters.net/ when the "lending" period is over. At that point, a download slot opens up on the library's website for another member of the community. Different people make different dicisions. In the near future, we can safely say the e-book revolution is upon us. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that the devices upon which we read those books -- digital e-readers, tablet computers, smartphones -- are anywhere near their final form.

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